Irrlicht Engine

Running high-end games on the new Ryzen 1700 and the performance is fantastic, noticeably better than my old i7! We all read that Intel had been emailing Ryzen reviewers to "call us before writing!", and also giving guidelines to reviewers of AMD's product!! Well, whatever Intel promised, ...

Change is always painful to developers in this business!

Any news on the DX10/11 driver, or Vulkan for Irrlicht?

Wondering if anyone interfaced Irrlich to a LR display on a phone yet?

We have Grantye's DX11 driver running, is there no interest in integrating it for some reasons unknown?

You might want to use another exporter, they all have quirks, or even export to FBX and use one of several converters to .x

interesting... but not everyone uses NVidia, some use Intel Iris or AMD GPUs.

Any data on which ops to avoid with AMD?

What takes time is for the GPU to do the rendering of 4 or 5 million primitives! I don't think its a problem in the code, simply the volume of primitives for the GPU to handle, and run the pixel shader. Its also not my pixel shader, as if I select the default renderer, its not much faster. The shado...

Its already fully optimised to the point quality is lost... and the meshes are all up in the GPU for rendering.

Its slow maybe because its rendering 4 million primitives each frame, with pixel lighting and soft shadows.

I do my post effects in the pixel shader, so for my code its an extra op when I already can't achieve good frame rates on even mid/high GPUs.

That said I guess you must be right

Yes you're right, the RT will be in video memory, as is the FB, so it should be much quicker.

Still seems a bit messy somehow, but it might be the way to go.

Yes but with 2K or 4K screens, those extra texture copies will take many millisecs, which is bad news.

Too inefficient for anything complex.

The question is what's tied to the FB such that recreation is needed?

Bad design.