Best answer so far.

Thanks for the laugh, Brian.

Good one Kuragiman!!!

 

poor FSX donkey! We'll have to find a really fattier one! :-)

What will amaze people is that some objects in the autogen libraries contain 3-4 drawcalls each and there are over 500 objects without even going into things like trees, aircraft, airports, VC's etc!

 

I had looked at the default FSX scenery for places like Seattle and New York, and the most draw call intensive thing I could find was 33 birds circling the Statue of Liberty. Then again, 33 draw calls at 4 vertices each is not the same performance wise as 33 draw calls at 60,000 vertices.

 

Might need more investigation for Seattle because I managed to get 200 FPS at KJFK while KSEA was 130 FPS with the Ultralight.

 

There might be some models with more vertices.

 

I used a program called Draw Call Monitor to find this out.

 

Edit: For Seattle, a few models had 6-7 draw calls, but the rest of the city was around 1-4 draw calls. There was quite a lot of duplicate models.