Why is Viewer 2 so bad at texture loading?

[Moni Duettmann]

I have tried and tried. Settings, sims, viewer versions... no solution to this. With V2 textures sinply don't load fast or don't load completely or don't load at all. Why can I exclude certain explanations? Because with Phoenix the problem doesn't appear. The Phoenix viewer is much better with textures, same computer, same line, same settings few problems. As fast as swapping to V2 - blurred desaster. I find this extremely annoying. You literally can't buy in shops, because all the hundreds of textures in there take hours to load. Why is there no help?m Why isn't this a top priority at the techies at Linden? 

[valerie Inshan]

Agreed. In V2, for instance, prim skirts, hair and even flower fields dont rez. Hopefully it will be fixed some day. In thye meantime, use Firestorm. You won't be able to enable shadows, but your stuff will rezz properly.

[Tristizia Demonista]

I'm using Beta 3.0.1 and i do not have these problems, so it might be a prefs issue ?

[valerie Inshan]

just tried. Even worse.....

[Nyll Bergbahn]

I use Viewer 2 beta 3.0.1 and Kirstens S21(9) and have no teture rezzing issues apart from the odd alpha texture glitch which can affect one pair of shoes from a designer and not six other pairs from the same designer.

But textures do normally rez fast. I visited some large stores yesterday including Pixel fashions, a large store with probably thousands of textures and everything rezzed beautifully and quickly.

You could try what Torley Linden suggests in this thread, turn off HTTP textures.

http://secondlife.lithium.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer-Basic-Mode/Any-way-to-speed-up-texture-downloads/td-p/782447

[Nyll Bergbahn]

When I used Emerald before it hit the trash can, I hated its slow texture rezzing. It really was poor and because of that and other reasons, I never installed Phoenix so I've never done a comparison between Phoenix and Viewer 2. When I switched from 1.23.5 and Emerald to Viewer 2, my old computer groaned a bit but my new computer loved Viewer 2 and it rezzes very well. What are your computer specifications and is your graphics card driver reasonably up to date? Could be a graphics card update would sort texture rezzing out for you on Viewer 2 based clients.

[Ansariel Hiller]

Because it's V2 code! If you dump the V2 texture system into a V1 viewer, the same borkage swaps over to V1. It apparently get's worse with HTTP on in heavily crowded regions.

[Ansariel Hiller]

Turn HTTP off - officially you won't be able to see mesh then, but you cares about that DOA feature anyway?

[Adolfh Gustafson]

Probably LL working on this fix. Try whit the new Beta 3.0.1 and check if your video card driver is the last version.

 

Regards, Adolfh

[Baloo Uriza]

I wonder if we're seeing the difference between libkakadu and libopenjpeg, with libkakadu being the inferior player at this table?

[LeonaFox Asalia]

I know this post is way old, and I hope you have solved the issue by nowDisable HTTP Textures and keep HTTP Inventory checked. You can do this in the Developement menu if your viewer doesn't have the option in advanced graphic preferences. HTTP Textures is **bleep**...I mean **bleep**! Disable it and you will never have a half blurry avi again.

[Baloo Uriza]

If you're having a flaky router causing issues with dropping packets, relying more heavily on UDP (which doesn't care whether data gets received or not) rather than HTTP which uses TCP (which does care and will retry on dropped packets), disabling HTTP textures will make the problem much worse.

[LeonaFox Asalia]

Oh really, Baloo? So, Moni's "flaky" router must have been simply prejudice against V2

[Baloo Uriza]

No, there's plenty of routers that don't have the memory to handle the sheer number and size of UDP packets that SL blasts. Anything that is as UDP intensive as SL would cause problems with that router.