[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/2988 Item 2988] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 19:54:51

Aug 21st dev build win 32.
The frame rate (using the built in fps) absolutely plummets when you zoom out of the battlescape. It's typically 45fps, but goes down to 15 when zoomed our all the way, especially on larger maps. Most graphics settings are default as I'm not clear what they do.
My card - AMD 5670,
Settings: Resolution - makes no difference if it's 1280*1024 windowed or 1920*1080 fullscreen.
Resolution Cap: Excellent
Filtering: All
No Compression
No LoD
Ansiotropy Level: 4
GLSL Shaders: On
Vertex buffers: off
Multisample, swap interval: 0/0
Post-processing shader effects - on
Real time lighting, max dynamic lights: On\1
Texture Normalmapping: On
Lightmap Block: High
Lightmap scale: Halfway
===== Comments Ported from Sourceforge =====

====== tlh2000 (2011-08-26 18:00:36) ======

this is of course something we will optimize - but not in a single ticket.