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== Requirements == | == Requirements == | ||
Since there is no detailed terrain mesh involved and there is essentially just a single textured sphere in the field of view, performance is generally excellent even on low end graphics cards. | |||
The main requirement (especially if custom hires textures are used) is available memory and GPU texture memory (this is not an issue for the default texture size). Provided there is sufficient texture memory available, loading the texture sheets is another bottleneck and FG may hang for a couple of seconds while the textures appear. | |||
Where this is feasible and supported by the GPU drivers, pre-compressed and mipmapped dds textures offer the fastest loading times. As such textures can not be used with many OpenSource graphics drivers, the default textures are not in dds format. | |||
While it is possible to use Earthview in rendering schemes other then ALS, this is neither supported nor endorsed. While they work perfectly well for the normal operations envelope of a flightsim, at high altitude the default renderer as well as [[Project Rembrandt]] do not render a realistic horizon line, plausible atmosphere visuals or the hard shadows of outer space and Earthview can not compensate for these issues. | |||
== Customization == | == Customization == | ||