[a_t48]

> At this point, there are now other non-CPU bottlenecks. Any method of drawing 700 entities, even basic wireframe?, even with a very high end GPU on a nearly 20 year old game, is significant, and there's no easy way for me to break past this.

I've run into this before - it _can_ be fast if your engine supports some form of mesh instances and exposes it to the user.

[ngcc_hk]

Would it be slow still if it recalculates everything?

[a_t48]

If what recalculates what?

[ngcc_hk]

The mesh calculation meant you are not in control. For simple model ok. For complex one, Realky can optimize eg not calculate anything 3 meter away.

[a_t48]

My comment only referred to rendering.