Second Life Viewer 2 Slow and Laggy

[DaishaLynn]

I don't know if its just me, or just my computer.  But The viewer is sooo slow and when I go into places with a ton of people or items it takes forever for me to just walk around.

Sometimes, I get soo much lag that I have to close second life altogether.  And restart.

I love second life, but it would be so much better if I could get around this problem.

I have windows Vista, and I am using a laptop.  My software isn't ancient, so I don't know what the problem is.

Can someone please help me find a solution to this?

[Tristizia Demonista]

Hmm, did you try to adjust the settings in preferences ? The default settings might be what causes this.

You might want to lower the settings a bit, especially Anisotrophic filtering and Anti-Aliasing. You can find these under prefs/graphics/advanced ->Hardware.

[DaishaLynn]

So I went to my preferences and went to where you said and come to find out, My Anisotrophic filtering and Anti-Aliasing aren't enabled at all.  They are both disabled.  

Should they be turned on and just put onto a low setting? Or could those two possibly not be the problem at all?

[Tristizia Demonista]

Hmm, hard to say then, those 2 are just the ones that really slows the viewer down the most.

Without knowing your computer specs, the next guess would be adjusting the max.bandwith (if possible to 1000).

Otherwise, you might want to lower down the graphics prefs and then slowly raise them again until you have the best compromise between looks and performance. 

[DaishaLynn]

Maximum Bandwidth is in the Setup section of prefs right?

& Thank you soo much for your help.  I've been having this problem for quite some time now and never thought to ask about it in the forums until now.