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GA requires considerably more from a system. Everything conspires to slow things down. We support DX 6, 7, 8, and 9, and Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and ME (4 of these items are not even supported by the manufacturer).
Soon we will drop DX 6, which with some simple but time consuming rewrites will increase performance. DX’s version system should have a decimal in front of it…like GA. At least we admit this is still beta.
Also, every new object makes things slower, along with surface area (GA’s fish are quite a bit larger than the salt water fish). And our fish are designed to be viewed from all angles (even top down…coming soon).
Our #1 programming job is speeding things up, to run on slower and slower computers. Luckily this is the one thing that gets easier, since every day people get better cards, while we push to operate on slower systems.
I went to E3 yesterday and saw nVidia’s newest wares. Impressive, very impressive. We are working with their head engineer to improve things for future products, and also stuff like multi-monitor. They “love” what we do. The next booth over had a $15K video display with Marine Aquarium.
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