Carol Darkthief

Has Gama region been restarted with out-of-date contents from a data back-up? The crossroads there is thoroughly blocked with a direction sign for a grid-race even that took place in July. Click on it and that's the web page you are directed to. There were, the last time I passed through, one or two buildings at the junction which seem to have vanished. That could just be people giving up the land It's running the current Main Server version. Something odd has happened.

I've just found the Linden road crossroads in Gama region blocked by a Relay for Life route marker. It looks authentic and seems to have been put there by Spike Linden. Click on it, and you get a link to a web page, giving the date for the event as in July 2014. I have a suspicion that Gama Region may have been restarted from an old back-up of the region contents. It's a bit early for any of the routine server restarts, but several regions thereabouts seem to be down. The road, the whole world, seems rather prone to vanishing at a region boundary. I've put in an abuse report on the grounds of Obstruction. Since I don't have Premium memership, most of the support ticket options don't seem available to me. If this is a genuine event set-up, the design is flawed. Something else seems to have gone wrong.

Thanks.

I'm not sure I entirely trust the official status page. Some people then shout "Connection!" as if it were the abracadabra of networking. Trouble is, we're on different continents, and using different ISPs, and just saying you don't see a problem is pretty useless. I have been seeing a lot of things that could be blamed on bad connections, the classic "somebody else's problem" of the internet, but Second Life seems to be shovelling a lot more data than hitherto at us. That's going to make connection quality matter more, but why the change. It doesn't seem to depend on graphics quality settings. I did suspect the Project Interesting changes as being a factor, from the timing of the effect and the timing of a Viewer upgrade. And the figure in the Stats window is labelled UDP data, so why would it increase when so much has been shifted to HTTP? I don't see dropped packets reported. The Stats window showing a round-trip time to the Linden Lab servers which is pretty consistent, a little slower than raw Ping data to the cities where the LL Servers are located, as you'd expect. But, once textures have downloaded after arrival, why am I seeing a sustained UDP download level of over 250 kilobits per second? It used to settle at below 100 kilobits. How much are our current problems down to poor connection, and how much to the return of Prune Linden?

I have a stack of emails that are forwarded Group IMs, but I have stopped receiving any.. I think I switched them off for while I was at the Worldcon, but I can't find any way of switching them back on. Or has the service been withdrawn by LL? There is such a confusion of websites and webpages that I'm not even sure if the switching was via My Second Life or the Dashboard or the Viewer and (part of the reason I am posting this here) there doesn't seem to be any way of getting back to the Dashboard from My Second Life: there seems to be some consistency of visual design, but the overall structure looks a bit slipshod.

It depends a bit on the tech used for your broadband connection, but whatever the black box is at your end, modem/router or cable box, it's worth trying a restart. Cut the power for a minute or so, and then let it restart. It doesn't solve every problem, but it is easy to forget.

The way things have been getting steadily worse, the last few days, it wouldn't much surprise me if Responsible Linden had toddled off to see Mummy and Daddy, as all Good Lindens should. And missing the weekly sim reboot never seems to help

Weekends are usually worse, but it could be something in the new code. Since this thread was started in April, it might be better to start a new thread, and tell us which viewer you were using, the level set for graphics, which region you were leaving, and which you were trying to enter. I try to avoid long vehicle runs at the weekend. It also depends on whether you are using a vehicle, and how it is scripted. When I set out to do a test run I try to use the same vehicle. And remember to check you are using a viewer that can handle SSA/B. The new baking system is going live very soon, so make sure you are up to date for that. (I reckon I can wait for materials. Nothing will be wholly broken by a lack of materials, but the SSA/B system affects every avatar you see.)

I spent a little while trying to figure why the odd limit on Density in the new Physics Engine features, and I have reached the tentative conclusion that either cubic Smoots or Barn-megaparsecs come into it somewhere.

Please, if you can't document it properly, keep it off the Main Grid. Assume the worst: the day it rolls out, you get rolled over by an eighteen-wheeler. How does somebody fix the bugs then?

The big problem is the graphics hardware You have a decent amount of RAM and a fast enough processor chip, able to run SSE2 code. More RAM would be nice. If you're talking about a laptop machine, you're locked out of any easy fix, and the graphics hardware you have is intended by Intel for laptops. If the graphics chip is being used in a desktop motherboard, you could install a replacement card, and get decent performance. Doing it that way seems like a daft design choice. You have a good machine, but it wasn't the right choice for SL.

I am currently having the same problem, only a six hour delay as yet, but the into on the website is that the item has been delivered, which is just not true. A free item, ordered at the same time, was delivered almost instantly. It looks as though free items have a different series of click-throughs. It might mean the failure is associated with the payment process, might be coincidence. If it doesn't arrive, and there's no refund, I suppose I shall have to raise a support ticket. Should there really be a special message if the item has not yet been delivered?

I'm not sure this is a combat-specific problem. And I have my suspicions that the solution suggested is going to need major software development. But if the tech side can make things work for Chamonix City and the ice-hockey, there's a whole range of possibilities that could be sold. Yes, I ought to get a better computer. This boat-anchor here is good enough for the social stuff, but a crowded sim is hell.