Issue running SL.

[LethalFantasia]

I have recently installed Second Life and began playing. However ten minutes into the server, my computer was over heated. I played with a cooling pad as well.

Specs:

CPU: AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (2295.7 MHz)
Memory: 5595 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Build 9200)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7660G

 

Could anyone please help me with this? I want to play SL and I wanted to know if I need a new graphic card or anything of that nature. Thanks.

[Sassy Romano]

Is it a laptop and which viewer were you using?

[LethalFantasia]

I am using a laptop. The viewer I was using was the most recent version ( I think? ). I had just installed the game today so I believe it was the most recent viewer.

[Sassy Romano]

ok, there are two very easy things to try first.

Enable the advanced menu (ctrl alt D) and then at the bottom of that menu is "show debug settings".

Set the value of MaxFPS to 30 (or a bit less if happy) and YieldTime to 50.

See if that lets it run much cooler.  The viewer tries to run the graphics card as hard as it can and it can run uneccesarily fast (MaxFPS setting) and similarly, the CPU will run at 100% most of the time when in SL, you can change that by making it give up time and run a bit slower (YieldTime).

Those changes should let you run much cooler.  You can change them to no ill effect, make YieldTime higher until you feel it's sluggish, or if it's too sluggish, reduce it a bit at a cost of heat.

Same with MaxFPS, lower the value, the screen updates will be less but cooler.

[LethalFantasia]

Thank you for the solutions! However do you know where I can find the advanced menu on windows eight? 

 

Edit: I thought it was the advanced settings on windows, my apologies. I got it now! Thank you so much Sassy.

[Sassy Romano]

Welcome, don't forget to say whether it helped or not after trying it for a while. 

[LethalFantasia]

It worked for me all day yesterday, however today it has started up again. I checked the settings to make sure they were to the level you advised - and unfortunately it is over heating. I had fun on my one day of SL though! Maybe when I invest in a desktop I can join y'all again.

[Sassy Romano]

If it worked all day with those settings then first check that they still show the same values in debug settings.

They can bet set from the command line too if necessary but check in the dialog box first.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

High framerate isn't the only thing that puts a load on your system.

You could lower your graphics settings (in SL), with ctrl-P. Use the advanced settings and play around. I'd start with lowering the draw distance and if it's enabled, disabling shadows.

If you're a bit adventurous, you could open your laptop and see if there's any dust.

[MaggieSimpson90]

i can't seem to download SL to play the game it keeps coming up as send error or don't send eerror.