Why is V3 soooo laggy?

[Myra Wildmist]

I've installed V3 and Firestorm on my PC. Firestorm works fine - in fact, it's pretty nice. But this latest V3 is soooo laggy. It's so laggy my typing in chat lags. My avatar lags just standing around. Everything I do on V3 is very, very slow and all my actions seem to lag, even something as simple as pulling up a chat window. (Streaming music seems fine, btw.)

Is there some sort of fix to this? I looked to make sure my graphics settings were okay and that sort of thing, but I'm not a pro at fixing these things.I did lower my graphics settings, but that didn't change anything, so I'm wondering if the issue isn't something else.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do?Outside of using FS all the time. ; )

Thanks for any help

 

[Cerise Sorbet]

First thing, make sure you have updated to 3.2.4, the new release that came out Tuesday, before you try to hunt down performance problems. It has lots and lots of fixes in it for compatilbility and frame rate troubles.

[Theresa Tennyson]

Slow chat windows and laggy movement are generally caused by connection or sim problems rather than viewer problems. The release version of Firestorm and Viewer 3.2.4 are very similar "under the hood" - all third party viewers are based to some extent on Linden Lab code. You might look at the settings in Firestorm versus the settings in Viewer 3 to see if there are differences there - they have different defaults.

[Myra Wildmist]

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Theresa Tennyson wrote:

Slow chat windows and laggy movement are generally caused by connection or sim problems rather than viewer problems. The release version of Firestorm and Viewer 3.2.4 are very similar "under the hood" - all third party viewers are based to some extent on Linden Lab code. You might look at the settings in Firestorm versus the settings in Viewer 3 to see if there are differences there - they have different defaults.

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Theresa, I know for sure that it's not a sim or connection problem.

I tested it by standing around in my home and switching viewers. I'm not sure why Firestorm would be different, but I get totally different performance results with it.

FYI, I d/led and tried the lastest V3, last night, but it didn't help, in fact it seemed worse.

[Myra Wildmist]

Just an update...

I tried turning off my antivirus and updating my graphics drivers, but still the same problem. At least FS works.

Myra Wildmist sighs.

[Paladin Pinion]

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Myra Wildmist wrote:

I tested it by standing around in my home and switching viewers. I'm not sure why Firestorm would be different, but I get totally different performance results with it.

FYI, I d/led and tried the lastest V3, last night, but it didn't help, in fact it seemed worse.

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If you are keeping different cache folders for each viewer, that could be the reason. If items aren't in the cache performance will suffer.

[Kerharbor Dreamscape]

Mine is laggy too. I can barely walk around at all. I turned on the lag meter and it goes red at the client light when i start to walk. It says, " To many complex objects in scene." Then it says," Possible cause images loading" . So maybe it's the cache folders. I'm not sure which ones so i cant fix it myself. But let me know if you figure out what's wrong.

[Sephy McCaw]

try disabling opengl vbo in prefs and see if that does any thing for you.

[Perrie Juran]

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jjccc Coronet wrote:

I heard the lagg patch will be ready in 12 years but due to lagg it may be a little longer

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You may be more right than you realize!

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/Need-Some-Help-Understanding-the-JIRA/m-p/1283941#M41987

[Myra Wildmist]

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Sephy McCaw wrote:

try disabling opengl vbo in prefs and see if that does any thing for you.

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That fixed it! Way to go, Sephy.

I noticed the tooltip for opengl vbo says something about better performance on older computers. My computer is pretty new - 8 months old, running Win 7 with a ATI 5700 series (Had to check my computer info...), so perhaps they should update the tooltip to say something about newer computers getting bad performance, too. grrr

[Medhue Simoni]

As another side note, when I turn voice on in V3, I can't move. It seems that the coding that handles the voice function gets stuck in a never ending loop which lags the whole viewer. When I turn voice off, everything is fine. Last I checked, I don't have the same problem in the Firestorm viewer.

[Kerharbor Dreamscape]

Yay! That fixed it. I turned off the opengl vbo thingy and i'm all greens on the lag meter. Thank you Sephy McCaw.

[ReneeRozayJR]

Okay I know this post was in 2011, but I still have the same problem today in 2014. I am not sure how to turn off the "opengl vbo" in preferences. I know it is in preferences but I do not know where to click inside it-___-. Could someone help me please? I am red in the client frame rate of the lag metre, which says my climate frame rate is below 10.

[Perrie Juran]

 

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ReneeRozayJR wrote:

Okay I know this post was in 2011, but I still have the same problem today in 2014. I am not sure how to turn off the "opengl vbo" in preferences. I know it is in preferences but I do not know where to click inside it-___-. Could someone help me please? I am red in the client frame rate of the lag metre, which says my climate frame rate is below 10.

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Preferences>Graphics>Advanced>Hardware

[ReneeRozayJR]

Ah thank you very much!