Alien Arena Boosts Frame-Rates, Enhances Graphics

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Since it's kind of hard to read the framerate through the Phoronix watermark, here are the key numbers:

	Map rendering, high	Mesh rendering, high	Map rendering, medium
Before	33	25	87
After	56	47	120

EDIT: thanks for the update Michael.

The improvement in mesh rendering is only at high and highest settings, although we are hoping to apply it to lower settings as well-- mesh rendering is now faster on high/highest than on lowest/low/medium! The experimental cvar to turn on the mesh rendering optimization is r_gpuanim. To get the best-performance combination of low-settings map rendering and high-settings mesh rendering, you can select low settings, turn on GLSL shaders and normalmapping, and then set r_test 1 and r_gpuanim 1. In that case, the framerate on that mesh rendering test would be around 90. This awkward situation will hopefully be resolved in our code soon.

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Phoronix: Alien Arena Boosts Frame-Rates, Enhances Graphics

Developers behind the open-source multi-platform Alien Arena game have managed some performance improvements as well as visual enhancements through some improvements to the engine's renderer...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2NjE