Is HGE slow?

[barney]

Hi there, fellow developers again!
I'm using Magic Particles with HGE but it seems to be sometimes, really slow. Like, when i create a system about 200-300 particles the fps drops from 450 to 200 and when i create about, over 1000 particles the fps drops dramaticly, to 40-50 fps and over 2000 it drops to 15 - 20 fps. Is there a way to solve this problem? Is it HGE? Thanks!

[Odin_KG]

FPS for HGE

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HGE-wrapper (Delphi) shows FPS=102 for 6481 particles. (AMD 2800 64+/ GF 6600GT)

Is there a way to solve this problem?

I think you use debug-mode.

[barney]

No I'm using the release version. Ah, sorry, forgot to mention my hardware. I'm on a laptop 1.43 Ghz Dual Core but my graphics adapter is not so good, i think that should be the problem. Thanks

[Odin_KG]

I'm on a laptop 1.43 Ghz Dual Core but my graphics adapter is not so good, i think that should be the problem.

Yes. I think the same. But my graphics addapter is 4 years old .

[barney]

Haha Considering I have a 2 year old and very cheap laptop, those results are also quite possible

[Odin_KG]

I think your graphic addapter was made by SYS. It is very slow addapter which takes the memory from motherboard.

[barney]

Let's see what device manager says:
Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family - I think it has 256 mb shared. No doubt, it is a slow graphics card, but I'm happy with my Team Fortress 2(in dx 8 mode )