Teagan Tobias

Before I get to involved I decided to just make a bootable USB and look at 21.3 edge for newer hardware. Made the USB and it would not boot, I have half a dozen bootable USB drives, distros – gparted – foxclone, and because this is the first time I have booted with a USB on my new system I tried booting with something that I know works, and it worked fine. I verified the download and had no problems making the USB so I’m not sure what to think, I may try to rebuild the USB again later with a new download. But for now SL will just half to make do with what I have. Thanks for your input.

I have downloaded the mint 21.3 edge iso and will make a system disk to play with and see what happens. I’m slow and my test system is still not back together after having everything moved out of the house for some work on the floors, but this sounds like fun, thanks for your input.

Yes, I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21, but you’ve bypassed my capabilities, LOL, I think you’ve gone to plaid. For what ever its worth my update manager tells me my system is up to date, but I will do some reading, thanks for the input.

Thanks, and I have that viewer installed. Have used it off and on over the years but Kokua is what I am comfortable with, I know where things are. Cool VL Viewer is nice but because I don’t use it often enough I have trouble finding things. But its a clean sharp display, and I do use it as a second viewer from time to time.

OK, this is a game changer, texture compression has made a world of difference. The jerky motion has stopped and things are looking better. But, I must say, so far I am no fan of PBR, could do without that. But Kokua includes in the Environmental settings Mid-day (legacy) and that brings back SL as I know it and like it. I have never been able to figure out the fancy lighting stuff so never use it. I imagine PBR will be the same for me. Thanks.

You appear to be fixing my problems so please keep pointing out changes I can make, I’m floundering here without help. LOL, I’m so bad at Second Life I have literally had people ask me, why are you still here. But I like SL even though I’m very poor at making it work right. I’m going to need to take another look at the Kokua update and see if I can figure something out with that. Thanks again.

I changed the texture memory to 4096, that’s as high as it will go and going to a busy region its looking better. Then I noticed there is an update to Kokua and I down loaded and updated. One of the problems is the texture memory settings have disappeared from the viewer, I can’t move, most of my surroundings are missing, there are blank squares of nothing, its... ugly as. I waited to see if it stabilized, nothing, then logged off and then logged back on, same thing, I’ve never seen anything like this. Logged off and back on to give it another go, still can’t move and still can’t see many things. I’ve used Kokua since before it was Kokua and have never had a problem like this. I’m going back to the older version of the viewer for now, I may be looking for a new viewer, I can’t do anything like this. I’ve gone back to the older version of Kokua and Second Life is back, I can move and everything is there and the texture memory is set to 4096. I QUIT FOR NOW!! Thanks for you help Amelia.

Kokua Release RLV 6.6.16.55167 (64bit) Release Notes Second Life Server 2024-02-21.7995320426 Release Notes CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor (3000 MHz) Memory: 31213 MB OS Version: Linux 5.15.0-101-generic #111-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 5 20:16:58 UTC 2024 x86_64 Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.147.05 Window size: 1920x1052 Font Size Adjustment: 96pt UI Scaling: 1 Draw distance: 128m Bandwidth: 1500kbit/s LOD factor: 3 Render quality: 5 Advanced Lighting Model: Enabled Texture memory: 1024MB Disk cache: Max size 1638.4 MB (100.3% used) RestrainedLove API: Disabled J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.2.1 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.15 CEF-Version: Dullahan: 1.12.2.202203281254 CEF: 91.1.23+g04c8d56+chromium-91.0.4472.164 Chromium: 91.0.4472.164 LibVLC Version: 2.2.3 Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with GCC version 70500 Packets Lost: 0/2695 (0.0%) April 01 2024 09:57:10 ================================= I also modify: RenderAvatarLODFactor -- 3 RenderAvatarPhysicsLODFactor -- 2 RenderVolumeLODFactor -- 3 MeshMaxConcurrentRequests -- 30

OP should have no problem running SL with listed parts. And I would say its overkill for SL, why... I recently replaced my PC and I see little to no difference in SL, I increase my draw distance a little, sometimes, but still my FPS are not much different. Listing old and new for comparison... CPU, Ryzen 7 1800X (AM4) - Ryzen 7 7700X (AM5) GPU, ASUS GTX 1060 3G - ASUS RTX 4060 8G Memory, both 32G Mainboard, ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Viewer sets both systems one notch below ultra. Mostly what I do in SL is go to live concerts, I still see avatars blink in and out of sight (at around 15m distance) with the new PC like I did with my old PC. Like I said, not much difference in how SL runs on the two systems. I don’t know what difference it makes but I run Linux Mint Cinnamon 21

When I buy any clothing I delete everything but the parts for my Tonic Fine, so that’s the only clothing I have. I don’t build anything so I don’t have folders of building material and my Textures are rather limited. I still have a some of my system clothing and I like appliers because of materials, and the fact that they fit under mesh clothing, both system and appliers are mostly lingerie. I have some mesh hair but I never leave the house with it, I always use my flexi hair and I have used the same hair for years, its me, can’t help it. After reading that you would think my inventory would be rather small but I’m around 97k and I’m fighting to keep below 100k. But I must be hoarding something just not sure what, LOL.

Go on a virtual safari on PaintedDog.TV some of them hours long, just beautiful.

I worked in an office once that had an all occasion tree. It would get decorated for everything. The building had a strict police about Christmas Trees and spelled out when they had to come down. The Fire Marshal came to the office and it was pointed out that the policy directly said Christmas Trees and that what we have is an all occasion tree. They thought for a second and said, it looks nice, just keep it safe and enjoy. That tree or another updated tree stayed up for years.

I’ve been on SL for over 16 years and one thing you can’t deny is the avatars keep getting better and better. RL quality is just an obvious progression and will come, I like the idea and look forward to it. But in looks only, if I fall I don’t want to see blood and guts but the same as now, get up, brush myself off and keep going. Having a realistic looking avatar... I like that.

The one Tribute Band I remember going to the most is Abba. I have been to more Abba shows then any of the rest put together. Always enjoyed them but haven’t seen Abba for a while. I don’t go to as many shows as I used to.

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