Love Zhaoying Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Are you running 64-bit version of Second Life? You should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar Legion Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 (edited) Let's see here - a six core, AMD CPU released in 2011, 8GB of RAM on a machine using Windows 7 with 2GB if texture memory set .... By contrast the (shared) machine I am presently on is using an Intel i7 released in 2014 (4790k), 16GB of RAM with less than a single gigabyte of texture memory set, bandwidth less than seven hundred set, ultra preset with draw distance set to 128m, ALM on, shadows being rendered, an LoD of 3 (not exactly optimal there) .... on an nVidia GTX 980. The machine sitting behind me has somewhat similar specs though slightly older CPU on a Micro-ATX board and running a 1050 .... and it still runs with settings similar to the machine I am typing this response up on. Worst framerate I have had thus far was on a sim with a LOT of mixed quality content or with a LOT of heavy complexity avatars around. Yeah - if you can afford to do so you could use a few hardware upgrades. This machine took a while to put together. Oh and as Love stated above - if you're not using the 64-bit version of your Second Life client of choice - assuming one is available - you really ought to. Edited August 16, 2018 by Solar Legion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teagan Tobias Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Yes, running 64bit. A few hardware upgrades. Like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar Legion Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Start with more RAM and work from there. Your OS is going to tend to reserve a bit of that for itself and honestly (from personal experience) Windows tends to be a bit unkind when it comes to fully releasing RAM when a program closes. If you can afford to do so and if your motherboard supports it, see if you can get a slightly newer CPU - believe it or not your CPU can be a bottleneck even if the rest of your system is using new/recently produced hardware. That's actually one of the reasons this machine isn't using a 10 series nVidia GPU - the CPU would bottleneck it. That and some of the earlier models and driver combinations had ... issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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