[DaBrain]

I've read taylor's thread about efficent textuing and modelling a few times now and I still find a few things I could use to increase the performance of FS2 and SoL.

Well, I'm interested in more performance oriented work. Especially because SoL will have a mission that's going to be quite challenging for the engine and the performance.

I'd like to test different versions of a model, but it's hard to do this without hard numbers.

So thought about a benchmark feature for the engine. Something basic would do.

We could easily use the in-game cutscene feature and record the fps. Furthermore it would be very useful to find the bottleneck. (Too many polies->GPU overstrain. Out of Vram-> Too big textures.)

[kasperl]

Isn't there already a show_mem_use commandline or something like that?
You could perhaps devise a working in-game cutscene mission for that.

[DaBrain]

Yes, this commandline like this, but I don't think will be enough for a performance analysis.

[MetalDestroyer]

Agreed, I need to work into my SW mods (or TC whatever you like) to make some sort of Battle of Endor mission without having a huge amount of swap. And, it is a way for me to see the difference between texture format.