Latest official Second Life viewer 3.2.8.2 Freezing

[Deep Semaphore]

Hello,

I am having very strange issues with the latest official Second Life viewer 3.2.8.2 

It is freezing after 5 mins or so, then comes back and freezes again .... then after getting a few normal windows 'application not responding' messages, I just have to close it manually.

Let me know if anyone else is experiencing this, or may be suggest a few things I can try.

Background iinfo: I normally used the official viewer running about 40 FPS on average with draw dist kept min, even had cache on a separate partition with no issues whatsoever. Wondering what is new in this latest build that is so disruptive.

Problem is that I have to train clients and I have taught them the UI for the latest SL official viewers.

Otherwise, I would have stuck to Firestorm ... which is giving me shadows at 40 FPS with no problems whatsoever, not even hanging etc... but the only issue is a different interface that I have to teach folks who do not want to be exposed to many things.

Thanks

[Thinkerer Melville]

I am running the latest official viewer:

Second Life 3.2.8 (248931) Feb 9 2012 09:04:17 (Second Life Release)
I have  had no problems with it -- ans stay inworld several hours at a time.  

I am running Win-7, 64 bit

The symtoms suggest a bad install.  Here are some suggstions I have collectefd.

Login fails? Lots of logouts? Summary 

http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/12/kit-login-fails-lots-of-logouts-summary.html

I suggest trying a clean install first -- the instructions are in the article.

 

[Triple Peccable]

Don't rule out a heat issue. There is a bug in the latest viewer that causes it to use 100% of the CPU 100% of the time. That bug wasn't there in the previous versions. If your CPU fan is choked with dust I can see where the problem might not show up until this latest viewer runs for 5 minutes or so.

You should be able to download a stress test program that will quickly let you know if that is the problem or not.

 

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

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Triple Peccable wrote:

 

You should be able to download a stress test program that will quickly let you know if that is the problem or not.

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...or monitor the temperarures while running SL.

Download Speedfan

It's free, it's small, it's wise with a program like SL to run it. SL killed one of my graphics cards in the past and was on the way of killing its replacement when I found out the card was running far too hot. I'm sure there are other programs out there for free, this is just the one I use.

[Deep Semaphore]

Thanks, Kwakkelde there is indeed a heating issue going on, and my CPU is maxed out too ... sticking to Firestorm for now, am almost glad the last official viewer sucked so bad. When I run Phoenix Firestrom in the v3 mode, I really enjoy things, am discovering for the fist time shadows with reasonable frame rates and I LOVE it. 

[Deep Semaphore]

Thanks Thinkerer,

Your pointers are really helpful. Am bookmarking them.

[Pirate Bandit]

Dont use the secondlife viewer.