V12 wrote in Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:20 pm:

erik wrote in Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:24 pm: Maybe things change when switching to Vulkan.

It will be loooong wait

Maybe, maybe not. We now use OpenSceneGraph and de main developer of that is also developing VulkanSceneGraph and in fact is using FlightGear data to test things.

Erik

... with AMD. These early results may be misleading and there could be more to com. Also Robert has seen a bigger proportionate improvement with VulkanSceneGraph. Stuttering whilst scenery, models and textures load (or textures are paged back in) is entirely to be expected; it's just the way ...

... a decade yet, as no one has ever identified a spot in the code that could be threaded to relieve a CPU bottleneck. 2) Like you mention, there is VulkanSceneGraph . This evolution of OSG will still need some more time to bake. Would switching from OSG to VSG really be something that cannot be ...

... is all known by the community already, I've seen some of the discussions in the multi-core wiki article. A solution would be to rewrite FG using VulkanSceneGraph or something similar, while carefully rewriting the SGSubsystem loop to be multithreaded via a job dispatching system (or something ...

... This is going to affect a lot of 3d on OSX. The change of status to deprecated gives an uncertain[1] future, however with the OSG folks starting VulkanSceneGraph (which is going to take at least many years) there is a path forwards. Paraphrasing [2] If Apple wants to shoot itself in the foot, ...