Why is there so much grey?

[Creuse75]

I can't seem to find an answer I actually understand on this matter. Why do some player avatars stay greyed out? What exactly is the cause of this?

First of all I'd like to point out my PC is more than capable of running SL, even with everything turned up with 16x Antialiasing + Lighting I still get solid FPS, I am also running on a 5MB internet so that shouldn't be the issue.

Just why does this happen? Is it something on my end the SL server or the players?

[Cinnamon Lohner]

Other players connections can effect what you see on their avatar.  However, if the buildings and textures around you are staying grey and not getting their textures then its more likely something on your end or a badly hammered sim.   You can increase your max bandwidth to see if things load quicker.  Also reducing your Draw Distance will encourage the textures closer to you to fully load.  If that doesn't help, then you may need to tweak your graphics card settings.  Depending on the make and model, you may need to do things like download the latest drivers and check settings like VBO and HTTP Textures.

ETA: I forgot to mention the most obvious fix.  Clear your viewer's cache. 

--Cinn

[Wolwaner Jervil]

Textures are shown in grey until tehy are loaded from the inventory servers.

It may take some time until they load, or if you have lots of packet loss they will never load.

Also a high viweing distance implies that all sim textures are loaded to show.

Even a good Internet connection at your side is no guaranteee that you reach LL servers in good time.

Pressing Ctrl-Shift-1 opens a statistic window to see the ping time from you to the LL servers.

In preferences (Ctrl-P) at the graphics tab try to lower quality or turn on advanced mode and lower the viewing distance to 96m which ist good enough for normal SL use.

Greetz and happy holidays

Wol

[Baloo Uriza]

VBO and HTTP Textures should be on, of course.