Comments on: Where Has All My VRAM Gone? https:/2010/05/where-has-all-my-vram-gone/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Benjamin Supnik https:/2010/05/where-has-all-my-vram-gone/#comment-373 Tue, 18 May 2010 10:13:24 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=73#comment-373 DDS is good.

http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/2007/08/case-for-dds.html

If the user has tex compression on, DDS and PNG VRAM use are the same, DDS just looks better.

]]> By: Jack Skieczius https:/2010/05/where-has-all-my-vram-gone/#comment-374 Mon, 17 May 2010 22:46:26 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=73#comment-374 What is your opinion on DDS files and the way they help loading times and how this effects VRAM?

On my plane i am using 8 2048 textures(tho i can go lower on a few parts) and i find DDS to load faster, but is this what I as a new developer should be using for all planes in the future or will PNG files still be the dominate texture file we will see.

]]> By: Anonymous https:/2010/05/where-has-all-my-vram-gone/#comment-375 Sat, 15 May 2010 16:36:54 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=73#comment-375 Just want to thank you Ben for these extremely informative posts on performance, the obj format etc. They are of great value to us planemakers.

I'd also like to second Nicolas' remark on VRAM. For my latest creation, I'm using 14 2048×2048 texture maps. Might sound silly but that's what you need if you want to create a really crisp exterior and 3D cockpit. In general, I like to think that I optimize my work pretty well in terms of ATTR-use and the kind of things you've mentioned in earlier posts, but when it comes to texture clarity, there's not much you can do other than hope that the users have plenty of VRAM.

/Nils

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