flcikering in firestorm viewer need help

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

experience alot of flcker in firestorm viewer all sudden out nowhere and me laptop acts like it can nto take program at all 

[Odaks]

Hi!

It would be of great help to us if you would post some important information about your system and its connection to SL

Go to your viewer's top bar menus; Help - > About Firetorm and use copy/paste to post that entire page into here. (There's a convienient button at the bottom of the About Firestorm page to make the Copy bit easy). That information will reveal where you are when you use that. You could edit that out, if you would prefer to keep that private, alternatively go to somewhere else pretty harmless first!

Getting this information while you are logged in gives us the best results. 

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics          (2370.55 MHz)
Memory: 7542 MB
Concurrency: 6
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 22621.1992)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 30.0.14046.0
OpenGL Version: 4.6.14802 Compatibility Profile Context 21.40.46 30.0.14046.0

RestrainedLove API: RLV v3.4.3 / RLVa v2.4.2.67470
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1l zlib/1.2.11.zlib-ng nghttp2/1.40.0
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.2
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.07
Dullahan: 1.12.3.202111032221
  CEF: 91.1.21+g9dd45fe+chromium-91.0.4472.114
  Chromium: 91.0.4472.114
LibVLC Version: 3.0.16
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Settings mode: Firestorm
Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
Window size: 1920x991 px
Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 1024 m
Bandwidth: 500 kbit/s
LOD factor: 4
Render quality: High-Ultra (6/7)
Advanced Lighting Model: Yes
Texture memory: 384 MB (1)
Disk cache: Max size 2048.0 MB (100.0% used)
Built with MSVC version 1916
Packets Lost: 732/369,067 (0.2%)
July 13 2023 18:42:13 SLT

 

 

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

17 hours ago, Odaks said:

Hi!

It would be of great help to us if you would post some important information about your system and its connection to SL

Go to your viewer's top bar menus; Help - > About Firetorm and use copy/paste to post that entire page into here. (There's a convienient button at the bottom of the About Firestorm page to make the Copy bit easy). That information will reveal where you are when you use that. You could edit that out, if you would prefer to keep that private, alternatively go to somewhere else pretty harmless first!

Getting this information while you are logged in gives us the best results. 

i sent me specs on firestorm from help 

 

[Rowan Amore]

With that set up, you really need to turn your graphics settings down.  Draw distance, unless you're out exploring mainland, is usually fine at 128 or less.  Inside busy clubs, I'm down to 32.

LOD factor, although not as big a deal, does fine between 2-3.   Make sure you have shadows OFF.  Even with my higher end laptop, having shadows on gives a huge hit to performance.

Also, under Graphics/Rendering in Preferences, check the Limit Framerate box and set the slider to around 60.

let me know if that helps

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

Ok i will try let u know

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

6 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

With that set up, you really need to turn your graphics settings down.  Draw distance, unless you're out exploring mainland, is usually fine at 128 or less.  Inside busy clubs, I'm down to 32.

LOD factor, although not as big a deal, does fine between 2-3.   Make sure you have shadows OFF.  Even with my higher end laptop, having shadows on gives a huge hit to performance.

Also, under Graphics/Rendering in Preferences, check the Limit Framerate box and set the slider to around 60.

let me know if that helps

Still flickering in me comp 

[Gwin LeShelle]

2023年7月13日午前7時42分、MRSCANDIREDBONEは次のように述べました。

突然、どこからともなくファイアストームビューアで大量のちらつきが発生し、ラップトップがプログラムをまったく取得できないように動作します 

My daughter hat something similar happening some while back, her laptop used after an driver or windows update her on-board graphics card instead of the Nvidia one it was supposed to use.

Maybe this helps and I really hope you are able to resolve it quickly.

💜

Edited July 14, 2023 by Gwin LeShelle

[Beq Janus]

On 7/14/2023 at 2:42 AM, MRSCANDIREDBONE said:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics          (2370.55 MHz)
Memory: 7542 MB
Concurrency: 6
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 22621.1992)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 30.0.14046.0
OpenGL Version: 4.6.14802 Compatibility Profile Context 21.40.46 30.0.14046.0

RestrainedLove API: RLV v3.4.3 / RLVa v2.4.2.67470
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1l zlib/1.2.11.zlib-ng nghttp2/1.40.0
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.2
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.07
Dullahan: 1.12.3.202111032221
  CEF: 91.1.21+g9dd45fe+chromium-91.0.4472.114
  Chromium: 91.0.4472.114
LibVLC Version: 3.0.16
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Settings mode: Firestorm
Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
Window size: 1920x991 px
Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 1024 m
Bandwidth: 500 kbit/s
LOD factor: 4
Render quality: High-Ultra (6/7)
Advanced Lighting Model: Yes
Texture memory: 384 MB (1)
Disk cache: Max size 2048.0 MB (100.0% used)
Built with MSVC version 1916
Packets Lost: 732/369,067 (0.2%)
July 13 2023 18:42:13 SLT

 

 

With less than 8GB RAM and very limited VRAM you are unlikely to be able to use this machine for very much longer for SecondLife. The sad reality of life is that things are getting more demanding on hardware and this machine is significantly underpowered for second life use. 

There are a few things that you might want to try. 

1) As @Gwin LeShelle pointed out, making sure that you have the latest stable driver for you system (this is not always the newest, and with older laptops newer drivers can cause more problems than they solve)

2) Minimise the memory demands as much as possible.

Set you graphics to Low, everything will look awful, but put up with it and see if it stabiliseand does not flicker.

You can help yourself a lot by restricting the texture size. (paste this into chat and click secondlife:///app/openfloater/preferences?search=restrict ) you'll see this preferences window like this

make sure that the restrict max texture resolution is ticked. You'll need to restart.

If you get it stable and not flickering then you can start to increase some of thew quality settings again.

Please note though, that machine is significantly underpowered for modern SL and it is only going to get worse soon, there's nothing we can do about that really.

[SarahKB7 Koskinen]

@MRSCANDIREDBONE

Your Draw Distance of 1024 metres is too large. Your PC is trying to draw everything within a 1024 metre range of your avatar.

Decrease your Draw Distance to a more comfortable 128 metres in the Preferences (Graphics).

Or in Firestorm, type:  dd 128 into public chat.

Edited July 19, 2023 by SarahKB7 Koskinen

[MRSCANDIREDBONE]

still got flicker only in firestorm