[ODE]StepFast - what am I doin wrong ?

[Adam D. Moss]

Lukas Henschke wrote:
> thanks to the answers from this list I managed to make my race-game 
> framerate-independent. When I added two more cars the dynamics 
> callculation lasted too long and caused me to give the step-fast 
> integrator a try. There seems to be something than I am doing wrong with 
> it, because the step-fast integrator calculates ten times slower than 
> the normal integrator.
...
>         dWorldStepFast1(world, stepsize, 20);

20 microsteps is pretty extreme for your case, I think.  Try
as few as 1-4.

Also, stepfast isn't automatically faster, in absolute
terms.  It simple scales better than the default solution.
If you don't have many [contact]joints in a given frame,
it's not necessarily going to be a win.

--Adam
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