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SFML / Performance in VirtualBox
« on: June 30, 2008, 12:56:19 pm »
Hello,

I've recently found SFML. Currently i'm using SDL (Bindings for D) and i'm planning to switch to SFML (again D Binding), but when will the Binding be ready? I didn't found something to download.

Second: How is the performance in Virtual Box? I mean, since SFML uses OpenGL, i think it will be much slower. Am i right?

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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2008, 02:35:02 pm »
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I've recently found SFML. Currently i'm using SDL (Bindings for D) and i'm planning to switch to SFML (again D Binding), but when will the Binding be ready? I didn't found something to download.

In a couple of days. If you want you can already get it from SVN.

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Second: How is the performance in Virtual Box? I mean, since SFML uses OpenGL, i think it will be much slower. Am i right?

Sorry, I don't know much about Virtual Box.
Laurent Gomila - SFML developer

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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2008, 08:40:06 pm »
yeap.. since VirtualBox doesn't use the GPU SFML will be way slower... :lol:
moste likly SDL will be faster...

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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2008, 06:33:00 am »
How does VirtualBox change the performance of SFML?

Without using VirtualBox, SFML is in fact faster than SDL because SFML takes advantage of the GPU.

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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2008, 07:52:00 pm »
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How does VirtualBox change the performance of SFML?

Without using VirtualBox, SFML is in fact faster than SDL because SFML takes advantage of the GPU.


You can answer that yourself ;)

SFML takes advantage of the GPU, however, VirtualBox won't let SFML use these advantages.

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« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2008, 08:27:51 pm »
So what advantage does this give SDL over SFML?

If SFML can work at all while it can't use the GPU, it'd be rendering in a software mode, which would just lower it to SDL's level of performance (assuming that the OpenGL implementation is as optimized as SDL).

It probably is faster with SDL, I trust you guys, but I'm just trying to understand it better.

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« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2008, 08:36:01 pm »
Well, problem is how extensive SFML makes use of the GPU to increase performance.
I don't know about that issue, but if SFML's increase in performance over SDL is heavily GPU-related and it is not that optimized for CPU, maybe SDL has a better rate on CPU-usage only.

However, I'm not really on the inside of SFML, so I can only guess which API is slightly more performant, using a VirtualBox.

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« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2008, 08:55:25 pm »
Alright, thanks for the info.

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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2009, 09:08:06 pm »
Sorry for pushing that one up again, but I thought it would be worth discussing the VirtualBox-question again, as VirtualBox now supports hardware-accelerated OpenGL for guest operating systems.

However, I tried it out and found that my simple SFML-application runs extremly slow. Has anyone else tried SFML in VirtualBox with OpenGL-support enabled?

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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2009, 11:12:36 pm »
VirtualBox supports OpenGL? Uh, have to check that out. :)

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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2009, 03:54:23 pm »
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VirtualBox supports OpenGL? Uh, have to check that out. :)


Yeah, since version 2.0 or so, I guess. It was only for Windows-guests in the first release (if I remember correctly), but now (since 2.2?!) it should also work with Linux guests.

I'm not sure if it's still beta.

 

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