Indigo2 impact

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AnitaKishore (kishore++at++electrogig.com)
Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:53:47 -0700

>
> It seems that the main bottleneck in our app is the downloading of
> textures to our terrain - essentially we want to do "texture animation".
> We have over 100MB of textures that we use overall (not all at once!).
>
> I have the idea that in fact, rather than chase the RM5 32MB texture boards
> for an onyx, I could use an indigo2 impact with 4MB of texture RAM
> because it will download textures faster. Is this so?

I don't know about Impact, but as suggested by SGI I am able to
manage hardware texture memory loading and unloading at will on a RE2 RM5,
through the beta version of Performer2.0. It seems to have improved our
texture downloading speed significantly.

-anita

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