Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 * I am building a house and the numbers I enter jump around wildly. I have to input each of them 3-4 times before they will stick.* I am also doing customer service but I am missing 7K of inventory so can't give the notecards or objects I need to.* I leave my workshop to go down and help a customer find something and my 4-sim store is almost blank -- all I see is grass, even right in front of me. Even the water is gone.These are not unusual things -- this is my daily experience.These are my specs for my new iMac: CPU: 8 x i386 (Unknown) (3400 MHz)Memory: 16384 MBOS Version: Darwin 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 6970M OpenGL EngineOpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.6.36 Anyone have a clue what makes stuff disappear? Or the numbers jump around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rya Nitely Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 drugs and/or alcohol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 Tried both. Will go make another attempt. Ohhh you mean the cause... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 you didn't mention the other problems when talking about the edit problems.... taken together those look to be spelling connection issues as it's a shared cause for all three items..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 You mean my wireless? Yes I think that is the cause of my inventory problem, which is a longstanding plague. But I just made a discovery -- I could rez the house I just finished on three of my sims fine but on the fourth, half of it OR the whole thing was invisible. So I restarted the sim and now I can see the whole thing when I rez. Also on this same sim, boxes are always setting themselves to sell original instead of copy which means ppl don't get them in inventory. However, the invisibility thing started when I got my new computer, so I thought it had to do with that. The numbers, I don't know -- had not considered wireless as a possibility. Restarting the sim did not help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 wireless will almost definitely be the source of most of the problems... the added invisibility of items not showing up including water could very well be the video card... I'm not up on ATI specs as I abandoned them for nvidia cards after repeated short lifespans of support and updates =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 Damn I hate to hear that -- I was determined to get the fastest card available for the iMac and this was it. Was thrilled I could set my dd as high as I liked and could zip around instead of heading out over the ocean all the time, turn on reflections, etc. I guess I will just have to get used to relogging more often. And I guess I will have to get a wired connection. Appreciate your input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opensource Obscure Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 FWIW I agree - Wifi seems to be the cause of such issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 Thanks. I don't know why the wireless connection would suddenly have this dramatic change in effect, though -- I have had it for years and only very occasionally did things become invisible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 different nic cards have different susceptibility to to wireless interference (and case design and position can have an effect).... some people manage to run SL wireless with little problem, but it's a pretty rare event.... I'm not sure what in the SL protocols makes it so touchy on wireless issues... possibly poor handling of resends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 I am thinking it might be this $80 wireless mouse. I got a wireless Magic Mouse with the iMac, it was awful, then got this Logictech Anywhere one, which is worse. Also unless I am hallucinating (again) now my walls and floors are getting their rotations out of whack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Goode Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I recently discovered for myself how WiFi was giving me some similar issues. Using WIFI, I have had issues on and off - most days just fine, but some days just terrible. (I use Phoenix and Firestorm) I recently changed ISP's and they provide intenet to a router that has both wifi and wired capablity. I ran an ethernet cable from the new router to the old one, since the old one was serviceing some non-wirelss devices. Well, I could hardly log into SL with the new WiFi signal. Packet loss was nuts. And if I changed sims, the packet loss would spike up, it would be many minutes before I could move. Fiddling around, I found that if I hooked up to the WiFi from the old router, most of my problems went away. Instead of seeing huge packet loss whenenever I changed sims, (or jacked my draw distance way up, and panning all around with the camera --- looks like a data rate thing), I only had a problem every 5 or 10 tries. Then I tried an ethernet cable direct to the router, and that almost comletely eliminates packet loss for me. I've ended up mosly using the wifi from the old router, most of the time it seems to be just fine, and I don't trip on the cable that way. But if I notice high packet loss when I log in, I log off, switch to the ethernet cable, and the problems go away. For some reason, the wireless is bad only sometimes. I am within 20 ft of both wifi's, so I don't think is a signal strength thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Thanks Rhys -- I did not understand all you said but I am going to give it to someone who will :-) We do need both wireless and wired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I imagine that there is only occassional strong interference with your signal, and that the new one is more susceptible to interference than the old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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