How to accelerate texture mapping in opengl?

Hi,
I am a beginner in opengl. I’ve got the following problem:
I draw a object, which has 600 vertices, 1100 triangles.
I apply a bmp as its texture. But the rendering process is very slow,
round about 90ms. Result has been obtained on a Pentium3 800Mhz with
128Mb memory and a ATI video card(16Mb video memory). So in animation,
frame per second is not more than 10. I don’t use the display lists as
the vertices are subject to modifications. Can anyone help me? Give me some
advice,anything is ok! The following is my code.

     glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, m_uTex);
    for(i=0;i<count;i++){   //count is 1100
        ai = pFacetList->facet[i].point[0];//pFacetList : all the triangles
    bi = pFacetList->facet[i].point[1];
    ci = pFacetList->facet[i].point[2];		
    a=&pVertexList->vertex[ai];//pVertexList : all the vertices
    b=&pVertexList->vertex[bi];
        c=&pVertexList->vertex[ci];
    glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
      glTexCoord2fv(m_pTex[ai]);//texture coordinate
      glNormal3f(a->normalx, a->normaly, a->normalz);
      glVertex3f(a->x, a->y, a->z);
      glTexCoord2fv(m_pTex[bi]);
      glNormal3f(b->normalx, b->normaly, b->normalz);	
      glVertex3f(b->x, b->y, b->z);
      glTexCoord2fv(m_pTex[ci]);
          glNormal3f(c->normalx, c->normaly, c->normalz);
          glVertex3f(c->x, c->y, c->z);
    glEnd();		

}
And texture environment:
glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
glCullFace(GL_BACK);
glTexEnvi(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_DECAL);
glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_FASTEST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);

Regards.

[This message has been edited by kwwang (edited 04-27-2001).]

If the percentage of visible trianges is small compared to the total number of triangles drawn you may want to do backface and view frustum culling yourself.

I’m not certain just how big your texture is but chopping a huge texture into smaller ones combined with tight culling helped my previous project. The texture was orignally 2048x1024 and was eventually chopped into 32x32 pieces. Massive improvement. Lots more coding though.