Fps and specs please :) Fire test.

[Shockwave]

Here's a preview of a fire technique I am working on, I need some feedback with fps readings and your specs please

Thanks.

[Stonemonkey]

28-35 fps

amd @1.7GHz, 512Mb

Radeon 9600

[Shockwave]

Hmm, cheers Stonemonkey. A little slower than I'd have hoped.

[Clyde]

Average here is 56-75 fps (75 is my monitors refresh rate )
Pretty slick and quick dude. Nice one.

P4 2.66Ghz w/ GF5500 (128mb)

[Shockwave]

Thanks Clyde.
This is the trouble with writing stuff with tinyptc, it struggles on some systems.
I'm honestly torn whether to carry on with this or to do something in GL instead.
I'll wait and see what other fps readings come in.

[Tetra]

Its looking nice.

20 - 28fps

AMD XP 1.1Ghz, 768MB (non ddr  )
6600 GT

This card sux for pixelwise stuff, My old Ti 4200 still kicks its ass Â

[Ghost^BHT]

Bout the same as Stonemonkey
29 - 36 fps here

amd @1.2GHz, 512Mb

ATI  Radeon 9600

[Shockwave]

Thanks Daf, thanks Bill.
I really need to get this faster though 

[Optimus]

Wow, awesome fire spiral =)

45-55fps
AMD athlon XP 2600+
Ati Radeon 9600 Pro

[Shockwave]

Cheers Optimus.
I'm thinking of having a burning vector scroll if I can get it fast enough.

[Clyde]

Could always try screen interlacing dude.

[Shockwave]

Yeah, that could work Clyde but I really want to keep the resolution as it is. I think I'll havew to be a little bit more canny.

[Shockwave]

Painful as this is, I think that the best way of getting a better frame rate will be for me to ditch the warping of the flames which means that I'll be able to make this routine viable for a demo.
I'll be releasing the full source code for this effect once I've got the demo coded.

I guess that it's hard to take a step back and scrap code that has taken a lot of work, but I have to admit that it looks probably a fair bit better without the warping. Oh well Thanks for the testing guys, you've saved me some embarrasment from releasing a slow routine.

[TinDragon]

83-87fps here, 3Ghz P4 Dualcore, 1gig ram, 512meg Radeon X1300 PCI-express (16x)

I think sometimes the pixel pushing is affected by the type and speed of interface between gfx card and motherboard, Maybe everyone can post if there card is PCI,AGP or PCI-E  and the speed of the bus if they know it, would could atleast then see if it is possibly linked to that 

[Shockwave]

One of lifes mysterys for me Jon.
I thought that it was directly related to the processor speed at first, a few tests on several computers gave me some surprising results.
I can say that tinyptc stuff in Freebasic seems to lag on some AMD systems and that the stuff seems to prefer ATI cards but that's not 100% accurate.
I was getting about the same results as you from this program.

Anyway, I've ditched the warp map and managed to increase it to about 125 fps, though I am sure that it will take a big hit on some systems. I'll need to be careful not to have any scrollers in this intro because they'll surely judder and I'll have to choose what I burn carefully unless I want to run this in 320 X 240 which would kind of defeat the object of using Freebasic because Thygrion and I already released an intro in Blitz  in this res.

[Rbz]

Nice one, I almost feel the heat 

40 - 52 FPS

P4 2.8Ghz 512Mb
Geforce 6600GT 128MB

[Blitz Amateur]

57-64 FPS

2.2 AMD Athlon64 1gig dual channel DDR RADEON X800Pro 256mb PCI-ex

[Shockwave]

Nice one guys

[xteraco]

prolly to late for this but

55fps

amd sempron @ 1.5ghz (oc'd to 1.7)
nvidia geforce 6800gt 512mb video mem
2gigs ddr400 ram

[Clyde]

Tell you what Shockie dude. If you showed that same effect without an fps display, people wouldnt be any the wizer, and go core blimey guv, would you look at that.

Personally I think it's very cool indeed.