Daphne Schorr Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hey kids, running SL on my shiny new computer, just curious what graphics settings people are using with the EVGA 460GTX SC graphics card? SL says it doesn't recognize it, so sets all the defaults very low... thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shockwave Yareach Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Odd. That's what I'm running, and I have everything at max or near max. gorgeous picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindens Torley Linden Posted March 24, 2011 Lindens Share Posted March 24, 2011 I keep hearing good things about the 460 GTX being a great bang-for-the-buck... SC = SuperClocked? Should be even better It reminds me of when I started Second Life on a 4200 Ti. I haven't used a 460 GTX firsthand but I have the 480 GTX. You should be able to set yours to Ultra in most conditions and have a good time, unless a place is especially dense and you can temporarily lower draw distance — remember to click Hardware button in the graphics settings and turn on Antialiasing to smooth out jaggies, I recommend 4x or better! Also, it is normal for newer hardware to not be recognized for awhile until our engineers get it added to our "graphics card table" which the Viewer references for defaults. The 460 has been out for awhile though, so I'll ask what's up, granted that you're running the newest Viewer 2.5... because much older versions DO NOT use the web table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 What's up is that the engineers have been slacking. There are cards that came out almost 3 years ago that still aren't listed in gpu_table.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindens Torley Linden Posted March 24, 2011 Lindens Share Posted March 24, 2011 leliel, are these fairly common cards too? Can you name 'em? There's a huge variety of GPUs (and model variations) but we do keep stats on what Residents are actually using. Also, clarification: that gpu_table.txt is from the old days, don't refer to that. We update the table on the web now, so if you're using the newest official Viewer and your card isn't recognized at startup, that's a sign. Aha, I found the source: "Our GPU/feature table is now stored on the web, so as new hardware comes out or drivers change, we can modify the features without requiring a new viewer" http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Beta_Viewer/2.1.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 NVIDIA: GTX 590 GTX 580 GTX 570 GTX 560 Ti GTX 550 Ti GTX 465 GTX 460 1GB / 768MB / SE GTS 450 GTS 440 GTS 430 Moble: GTS 150M GTS 160M 305M 315M GT 325M GT 335M GT 345M GTS 350M GT 415M GT 420M GT 425M GT 435M GT 445M GT 520M GT 525M GT 540M GT 550M GT 555M ATI: HD 6990 HD 6970 HD 6950 HD 6870 HD 6850 Mobile: HD 6770M HD 6750M HD 6730M HD 6650M HD 6630M HD 6570M HD 6550M HD 6530M HD 6490M HD 6470M HD 6450M HD 6430M HD 6370M HD 6350M HD 6330M HD 6310 HD 6250 I'm shure there's plenty more, those are just the ones I didn't see after a quick glance at gpu_table.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Schorr Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Thanks Torley! (Love your tutorial vids, btw !) Card is running great at ultra! Such a huge difference, especially with some great Windlight settings and shadows turned on This is replacing a very aged ATI card, and I am super impressed - and yep, SC is superclocked. Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Wirefly Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I also Even have the I core 7 950 and Asus extreme MB and SL told me my recommended graphics "by default" was all set to bottom. Normal because I am sure its diifcult for Linden to recognize all the dirvers that are used to run viewer. One thing to remember is by setting your graphics to Ultra and beyond the "load" time will take longer. Some of this will depend on your connection speed, might try experimenting with bandwidth speed on viewer, also the amount of avatars and objects in each sim. So if your patient am sure you will have a wonder and colorerful expience in SL. Ride on EVGA ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Schorr Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hi Torley, Interestingly, when I turned on Anti-aliasing, it actually looked worse! I had a white edge around most prims, like a bad alpha layer or something... It got worse as I turned AA up... So I guess I will leave that off for now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deej Kasshiki Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Daphne Schorr wrote: Hi Torley, Interestingly, when I turned on Anti-aliasing, it actually looked worse! I had a white edge around most prims, like a bad alpha layer or something... It got worse as I turned AA up... So I guess I will leave that off for now! Daphne this is a known issue with SL and AA. Turn AA off in the client and turn it on in your vid card's software (Catalyst for ATI or Nvidia Control panel for Nvidia). I did and it really helped (although I'm using Snowglobe and not v2). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 this isn't the problem YOU are having I think, but is something that anyone that reads this might want to know about.... using certain start parameters results in all sorts of misbehaviors for the V2 viewer... --noprobe will reset the video memory to using 128MB, an you will be unable to set it back until you ligin without that switch. --login will keep several menus and keys from being activated (mostly text editing controls) and will also cause a no warning crash-to-desktop if a required update or new ToS dialog comes up. other common ones may have other effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Schorr Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 thanks!! I just tried this, worked like a charm - running 8x in the Nvidia control panel, much more better now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Elan Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Could tell the location of the current supported graphics cards? I Just got a new laptop with a nvidia gt 445 m, 3Gb video memory. But when sl starts up it is not recognized. I did install the latest official viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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