Automatic selection of Rendering settings

[Hooray]

@to the previous poster, the problem is more complex than you may think - there are quite a few subsystems and features that are having a mutual impact on each other, and sometimes that impact may not be obvious/immediate, and certainly not linear.

Apart from that, 15 fps is way too low - it would make sense to aim for at least 30 fps, and Erik came up with an interesting idea a few weeks ago, i.e. introducing "vendor/GPU profiles" with pre-selected default settings for certain graphics card - which could be based on community feedback - analogous to the existing support for joystick profiles:

Review of FG on reddit: xpost

The only thing I want to do is detect the video card and based on the GL renderer name turn on ALS (or not), turn on water shader (or not), turn on the 3d city shader (or not), etc.

The default would not be touched but based on the detected video card certain options would get enabled, making the first impression much more pleasant (for first time users).

Erik

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Graphics_Card_Profiles

[Parnikkapore]

That's the easiest thing that could be done.
(P.S. With my old Intel HD graphics machine the framerates stay around 5 on takeoff and rises to 25 in the middle of the ocean. KSFO,Yellow 172p,3.4)

[wkitty42]

you should try the latest 2016.2.0 code and see how that frame rate is... i've seen an increase in the last few updates i've done...

[Parnikkapore]

It permanently broke down,hence my new machine.