Grainy Textures on latest SL Viewer

[Jae Velde]

I've been using the regular SL viewer, keeping it updated since it crashes less than my other viewers but for the past couple of days I've noticed my avatar's skin was looking funny. It didn't look that way before and I know because I made it. While standing over a window light alpha texture I noticed that what once looked like a smoothe and realistic light texture was now grainy and had like tiers of light intensity. So I cammed around and it seems ALL the textures I am seeing are gross and grainy. Relogged, cleared cache, restarted computer, checked for updates and swapped my graphics settings around and sill no change. Things only look correct now that I've reverted back to my old viewer. Anyone have a fix or know what is going on?

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Go to Preferences / Graphics / Advanced / Hardware and see if Enable Texture Compression is selected. If it is, de-select and restart the viewer.

[Laila Laperriere]

So glad I read this post. IT WORKED for me! Yay!  Thank you for posting this answer to a problem that was keeping me from SL viewer.

Regards

Laila

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Yay! \o/