Streaks Emanating from All Avatars

[RuchiVee]

I am using the Linden viewer, and even downloaded the Firestorm viewer, but in both viewers I see streaks emanating from all avatars...like...long lines touching all points of the avatars' silhouette and stretching into the distance....like the kind of cartoon lines you might see if a cartoon character were running fast.  See the image I attached.

I have been experiencing this since yesterday.  Yesterday, it was on-and-off.  Today it's non-stop.  Is anyone else experiencing this problem?  How can I fix it?  I tried clearing my cache but that didn't work.  I tried fiddling with the "Me / Preferences / Graphics tab / Quality & Speed" and "Avatar Maximum Capacity" settings but that didn't work either.

Edited September 3, 2018 by RuchiVee

[Cindy Evanier]

Double post? 

 

[Love Zhaoying]

Streakers..

[RuchiVee]

Nope.

But do you have any useful information for me?

[Skell Dagger]

How old is your graphics card? The last time I saw issues like that out of the blue it turned out that my GPU was failing.

[Fionalein]

I saw it on non bento singularity as well ... but should not be an issue with newer viewers.

[Claireschen Hesten]

Many moons back on an old 'puter I used to get this after a lot of camming around the solution for me was to turn off vbo in graphics hardware settings 

[RuchiVee]

@Claireschen Hesten:  I tried disabling VBO.  It helped, but only about 50%.  I still see streaks. 

@Fionalein: I downloaded the newest Firestorm viewer, and still had the same problem. 

@Skell Dagger:  I don't know how old my graphics card is...how do I find out.  If it's too old, what do I do?  Replace it?

[Chic Aeon]

@Skell Dagger:  I don't know how old my graphics card is...how do I find out.  If it's too old, what do I do?  Replace it?

 

In Firestorm you can go to HELP > About Firestorm and you will get a page with all you computer info. You can copy to clipboard and paste in here.

[Skell Dagger]

6 hours ago, RuchiVee said:

I don't know how old my graphics card is...how do I find out.  If it's too old, what do I do?  Replace it?

If you've never replaced it before then it will be as old as your computer is. They do fail eventually, and those streaks were a sign that I noticed prior to one of my old cards failing. I'd suggest running some tests on it first to see if that is the issue, because replacing a card isn't cheap; a decent one will run you to a few hundred, depending on which one you buy and where you get it from.

Edited September 4, 2018 by Skell Dagger

[MaggiJin]

Skell was partially right, But this is called Artifacting. It can happen when your graphics card is old, But it more commonly happens if its been damaged. Either way, It looks like you may need a new one soon.

[Rolig Loon]

I haven't seen that particular effect for  long time, but it used to be mildly common with AMD/ATI graphics cards that were using extinct drivers.  Before you panic too much, try downloading and installing current drivers for that card.  Yours may have been messed up somehow.

Edited September 4, 2018 by Rolig Loon

[RuchiVee]

Thank you all.  I will check my driver first.