Adobe ATMOSPHERE User Manual page 35

The Display tab of the Preferences panel lets you choose to activate hardware rendering.
The General Rendering Options let you select to Throttle When Not Active. This option will lower the frame rate of
the Atmosphere environment when it is not the active window. By enabling this option, you are allowing your video
card to perform other tasks when it is not being used to render the Atmosphere environment.
The Use 24-bit Textures options allows higher resolution textures that support photo-realistic color. If disabled, the
Atmosphere Player will use lower resolution images. This reduces image quality, but results in an environment that
is rendered more quickly, which may be necessary on older systems with slower processors. This option requires that
you restart Atmosphere.
If you are viewing Atmosphere environments on an older system like a Pentium II, then the frame rate for the
Player may be slow. There are several options in the Display tab of the Preferences palette that can help speed up
Atmosphere. For the Software Rendering Options section, you can select to Use and/or Smooth Textures and Light
Maps. Disabling these options will make the environment render more quickly, but will sacrifi ce image quality.
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These options have no effect if the Hardware (Direct3D) option is enabled.
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Disabling textures will not cause the environment to load any faster. Even if textures are disabled, they will still be
downloaded. The performance increase that comes by disabling textures is an increase in frame rate as you navigate
the environment.
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