Rose Bomse Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I recently just switched to Viewer 2 and now it's alot more laggy than Viewer 1, my top isn't even rezzing, I stood there for 5 minutes waiting and nothing! I really dislike the new viewer, can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloo Uriza Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Use a different viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommi Waydelich Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Maybe your computer is too slow or old for modern Viewer 2 technology? Here are the System Requirements for viewer 2: http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/?lang=en-US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyll Bergbahn Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hi Rose, Yes, there are some issues as described in the Release Notes for http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Beta_Viewer/2.8.0 and http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/2.8.3 Scroll down those pages to the section Known Issues and try the workarounds suggested. As it says, the impact is more noticeable on older hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloo Uriza Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I wouldn't call V2 to be a significant change in technology, as it doesn't bring anything new to the table. Everything it does is within the existing OpenGL spec, which has been around for quite some time. OpenGL is modern, sure, but it's not more or less so than the OpenGL used by older viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Bomse Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 I decided to go to Pheonix viewer, I was concerned when I noticed it was in the same style as Viewer 1 though since viewer 1 is becoming unsupported or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conifer Dada Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 It probably depends on computer and internet connection. Viewer 2 behaved very well for me for a long time - no crashes, rezzing reasonably quick. But in recent weeks there's been an increasing problem of avatar textures taking ages to load or not load at all. If I go to a place with 20 people in, 10 might still be grey after half an hour, which reminds me of how things were when I joined SL in 2006! I'm now using Viewer 3 beta, which has the same slow loading problem, plus the fact that after a few minutes of smooth operation, the frame rate becomes jerky and sticky then the computer crashes. Reducing the graphics settings makes no difference to this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoki Enoch Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Conifer Dada wrote: I'm now using Viewer 3 beta, There is now a Viewer 3 in beta? Gee, how did that one slip by me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristizia Demonista Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hmm, can't say that my Viewer behaves like this, quite the contrary even. Large crowds don't slow me down anymore with the new one. For the grey issue, did you disable HTTP Textures ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyll Bergbahn Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I haven't noticed any slowdown in frame rates or texture rezzing with V2 beta 3.0 and Kirstens latest S21(9) has phenomenal frame rates. You could try it and see if any better. I still have the odd niggle regarding some alpha textures and still no anti-aliasing with Shadows enabled but otherwise brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Sontse Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Been on sl since it started with all viewer versions and never experienced any problems! this new sl viewer2 is about 5 times slower than the 2009 viwer i was using previous. cant fly - viewer cant handle it - menus take 5-10 seconds to respond - everything is crippled- completly unusable! ive been to laaaggy sims b4 but this is something else - worse than lag! incidently i switched back to the old 2009 viewer - and no problems - no lag no unresponsiveness etc.. wtf linden lab if i didnt have the old viewer i wouldnt be able to enter sl - new viewer completly sucks!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tako Absent Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Visually or graphic wise v2-3 is comparable to v1 imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martaliliana Lane Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Hi I instaleld the new version of SL ( viewer ) but is so slow that i cant play the game. It is impossible to use the older version ( common version) ? I couldnt do that, o dont know how to return to the older version, because it dont run Thank you very much, !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arton Rotaru Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 A friend of mine had the same issue. However, after a re-boot of his PC it worked just fine. Anyway, if you can't get it to work (maybe update your GPU drivers), I would try one of the Release Candidate viewers. I just installed the HTTP. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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