Second Life Viewers slow even before logging in!

[Hitomi Heron]

Ok I usually run in Emergence Viewer release 1.5.2 but I have tested this on the latest version of Phoenix and the latest SL Viewer from Linden Labs and its the exact same kind of problem.

When I open any SL viewer its slow right from the get go. It takes a long time to type out my name and password and it takes a very long time (around a minute or so) even to do something like open preferences. When I log in everything looks fine even on high settings and the Statistics window shows me with very high fps and a fairly high bandwidth and no packet loss. However things still move so slow that even standing still it takes over a minute for me to see an object move at all.

I have tried clearing cache, lowering my settings, reinstalling, going to a different sim and none of this seems to make any difference what so ever. I also checked and all the necessary programs and applications have full rights through the firewall.

My specs are below:

 

CPU: Intel Pentium Pro/2/3, Core (Unknown model) (3333 MHz)
Memory: 12279 MB
OS Version: Professional  (Build 7600)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1041
OpenGL Version: 4.0.10151 Compatibility Profile Context

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.20.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
J2C Decoder Version: OpenJPEG: 1.4.0.635, Runtime: 1.4.0.635
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.5.2

 

What is really wierd is that I have played Second Life on the same viewer on this same machine before as recently as a month ago. My machine was broken for about a month while Dell replaced basically every piece of hardware in my machine twice before it finally got working again. I have reinstalled everything. Drivers look ok too.

The only thing I can think of is that I used to run Second Life off a wireless connection but right now I am using a wired connection, but that should only make it faster right? Are there some settings that I need to change or something like that to run it on a wired connection? My internet runs faster but Second Life runs a heck of a lot slower.

Has anyone else experienced something like this and if so is there a fix for this?

[Jenni Darkwatch]

There used to be a very weird bug that hit me a few times - if i'd mute a sound channel, the viewer would become insanely slow. That was a long, long time ago though.

Regardless of that, this here made me wonder if there's still a driver issue:

OpenGL Version: 4.0.10151 Compatibility Profile Context

[Hitomi Heron]

What would I need to do to check for a driver issue?

[leliel Mirihi]

 

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Jenni Darkwatch wrote:

OpenGL Version: 4.0.10151

Compatibility Profile Context

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That just means it's using pre OpenGL 3.2 features, i.e. the legacy immediate mode functions. The driver will always say that for as long as LL supports archaic hardware from a bygone era that's really too slow to be running SL anyway.

 

[Jenni Darkwatch]

Weird, it doesn't give me that line on my viewer... but then again, I'm neither on Windows nor using ATI:

OpenGL Version: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 260.19.06

[Jenni Darkwatch]

Hmmmm since you mentioned you reinstalled everything... did you install the ATI driver from their web page, or used the windows default driver?

[leliel Mirihi]

 

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Jenni Darkwatch wrote:

Weird, it doesn't give me that line on my viewer... but then again, I'm neither on Windows nor using ATI:

OpenGL Version: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 260.19.06

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That's because Nvidia doesn't plan on getting rid of the immediate mode functions any time soon despite them being depreciated in OpenGL 3.1+, where as ATI can't wait to remove them.