New to SL, Literally nothing is loading

[Kalhund]

Hello! I got SL yesterday, installed the default viewer and whilst I could access different worlds and see the names of other players, no avatars or elements of the world load in properly. I left the game running for long periods of time and have tried editing my cache and bandwidth sizes as well as clearing my cache. I have since tried alternative viewers like firestorm, but these issues persist. Any idea what this could be? My network is running fine and I can still connect 

Here are my specs: 

Firestorm 6.6.17 (70368) Dec 10 2023 18:36:33 (64bit / SSE2) (Firestorm-Releasex64) with Havok support
Release Notes

You are at 17.0, 136.0, 68.6 in Social Island 10 located at simhost-0b941dc988971b902.agni
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Social Island 10/17/136/69
(global coordinates 262,161.0, 267,656.0, 68.6)
Second Life Server 2024-01-19.7590161929
Release Notes

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz (3600 MHz)
Memory: 16319 MB (Used: 827 MB)
Concurrency: 8
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19045.4046)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
Graphics Card Memory: 6144 MB

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 31.0.15.5161
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 551.61

RestrainedLove API: (disabled)
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1l zlib/1.2.11.zlib-ng nghttp2/1.40.0
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.4.1
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.18
Dullahan: 1.12.4.202209142021
  CEF: 91.1.21+g9dd45fe+chromium-91.0.4472.114
  Chromium: 91.0.4472.114
LibVLC Version: 3.0.16
Voice Server Version: Vivox 4.10.0000.32327.5fc3fe7c.571099

Settings mode: Firestorm
Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
Window size: 1920x1017 px
Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 256 m
Bandwidth: 1300 kbit/s
LOD factor: 2
Render quality: High-Ultra (6/7)
Advanced Lighting Model: Yes
Texture memory: Dynamic (512 MB min / 10% Cache / 10% VRAM)
Disk cache: Max size 9984.0 MB (0.0% used)
Built with MSVC version 1937
Packets Lost: 1/10,127 (0.0%)
February 23 2024 04:08:19 SLT

[Zalificent Corvinus]

1 hour ago, Kalhund said:

Graphics Card Memory: 6144 MB

1 hour ago, Kalhund said:

Texture memory: Dynamic (512 MB min / 10% Cache / 10% VRAM)

 

You might want to change the texture memory VRAM setting., you should be using at least half of the card's vram, not 1/12th.

 

1 hour ago, Kalhund said:

Draw distance: 256 m

I'd lower that to 128m

 

1 hour ago, Kalhund said:

Bandwidth: 1300 kbit/s

I'd lower that too, maybe half that value.

 

1 hour ago, Kalhund said:

Disk cache: Max size 9984.0 MB (0.0% used)

Do you clear the cache often? if so, STOP.

 

[OthirMan]

With your rig, response should be blazing fast!

I use an ancient business quad-core with a 2GB graphics card, and I'm okay -- because I use the Firestorm Viewer, turn off both Transparent Water and Advanced Lighting Model, and MOST IMPORTANTLY take my Draw Distance down to 48 meters.  Your Draw Distance is what's killing your performance.