[Kolgena]

I've heard from a pro gamer friend of mine that 4:3 is better to play FPSes on than 16:9 (even if the 16:9 is hor+). Not sure why though.

[The E]

Superstition.

Also, since the common 4:3 resolutions are far less pixel-intensive than widescreen ones, you can get a few extra FPS out of the engine.

[CP5670]

Well, at the same diagonal display size 4:3 has more pixels than 16:9 or 16:10. Although you don't really see 4:3 displays larger than 20/21".

I still use 2048x1536 on a CRT. Note that FSO doesn't stress modern video cards at all, and you might as well use the highest resolution you have available. I have used this since 2005 and don't think I have ever seen a speed improvement with a new video card.

[General Battuta]

Well, at the same diagonal display size 4:3 has more pixels than 16:9 or 16:10. Although you don't really see 4:3 displays larger than 20/21".

I still use 2048x1536 on a CRT. Note that FSO doesn't stress modern video cards at all

War in Heaven 

Definitely got a few extra FPS on Delenda Est when I upgraded.

[CP5670]

There are certainly framerate drops in some places but they are hardly ever caused by a GPU limitation. The FSO engine has some weird bottleneck, apparently related to the collision detection, that makes the game tank in certain situations on any hardware. I think even my CPU upgrades over time haven't helped much with this.

[General Battuta]

While that is true, putting a lot of the War in Heaven ships onscreen at one time does seem to choke the GPU - upgrading got me a noticeable FPS increase on the bigger missions.

I agree about that bottleneck, though, it's intensely frustrating.

[The E]

Well, it's like this. With optimal assets (optimal in this case meaning low texture count, good subdivision), FSO is CPU-bound due to being single-threaded. As assets get less well optimized (like the Karuna in WiH), the bottleneck moves to your GPU, or more accurately speaking, the texture memory transfer.

[Dragon]

Fortunately, Swifty seems to be working on collision code improvements and BP is upgrading it's assets to be much better optimized.