Anicha Heartsong

Sean - I think I might - MIGHT - have a solution for our problems. It's early days, but looking good so far. I'm quite privacy conscious, so use a VPN. And when I upgraded to Monterey, I also turned on the new feature "virtual private relay' which is in Beta, and which applies VPN type protection to your Safari browser. I found something online to say that the new feature can interfere with the proper working of your VPN. This is likely just a bug which may get sorted in time. However, this might be what's causing my issues - and maybe yours too. So I turned off 'virtual private relay' and so far, so good. I've been able to teleport around and change outfits and stuff, without the issue of assets refusing to load. You can check for this in System Preferences - up at the top click right on your 'Apple ID'. It's one of the options on the right. If it's checked, try turning it off. If this works, please come back here and let and others know.

nope, not opening your link Drakeo, and I suggest no one else does either. Oh, and btw, the M1 doesn't have a trad GPU, the whole infrastructure is different. And if I want to use a mac, I can. Don't need your permission. Others too, don't need your permission to use macs if we want. And we're allowed to start threads, even without your permission. If you don't like it, go away. I'll be happy.

I'm now finding that I have to restart my computer repeatedly throughout the day. On restart, everything is working again. But after a few minutes, especially if I change outfit items or teleport, then assets will no longer load / rez. For example, if I change my hair, the new hair won't show load. It would be useful for me to know how widespread this is, if many others are experiencing the same thing in Monterey, as I'm considering a roll-back to Big Sur. The issues I'm having are the same across 3 different viewers, so I'm pretty sure it's a graphics related issue with MacOS.

Sean, see also this thread, which has a possible solution at the bottom. It relates to the beta versions of Monterey but might still help:

Sean, I've recently upgraded to Monterey on my M1 Mac Mini and I'm having similar issues at times: nothing will rez, no textures, missing body parts (shape; skin; eyes, brows) - and those four are essentials. You will never rez and your body will remain a cloud if they are not found. It may be an issue with Monterey, or it might be a coincidence - something on the Linden side perhaps, or simply network problems. I have found that doing a full system restart and then logging in again helps - in fact cures the issues, temporarily at least. It is a right royal pain, I know. Some things worth checking in preferences (these all apply to Firestorm - it's the only viewer I use, only one that I'm familiar with): Advanced Lighting - try turning it off and back on again Prefs | graphics | Hardware - there's an option for "enable openGL vertex buffer object" - make sure this is checked on. (A weird one this, as I'm not sure the new macs even use OpenGL, but I've found this one significantly improves framerate) Prefs | graphics | Hardware - "enable support for HiDPI displays" - I keep this turned off. I'm using an external monitor which is not HiDPI as far as I'm aware, and turning this option on slows things down a lot. It might be worth asking for more help in the Firestorm support group chat. This is a very active and helpful group. There's also a group called 'Macintosh Users' which might be worth trying, although this is a much smaller group, and less active.

Fellow traveller (we spell traveller with a double 'l' where I come from)

Good Times

Winning smile

You owe me

And now the land has been abandoned! SL is weird.

Lawyer Up

Orange Orange

Orange Marmalade

And here's that manor house: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/TLG-Tudor-Manor-House/5399791

Think I found the right place through her profile: it's a 12,272 for L$99,000 which actually looks like great value: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yarmouth/87/82/30 There's loads of other property for sale on that sim and those around and lots of it with water and road access, all good prices. But they are all 'general' sims, which rules me out

Dry Martini

Spin doctor

Jack Sparrow

Hates drama

Thanks So, I'll check them out.

Should be 'Semotions'. Memory is a little foggy today.

Hi, does anyone have a handy list of all the major stores selling up-to-date AOs? I've visited some big AO stores over the years and failed utterly to bookmark them (or failed to organise the bookmarks!) Stores I do know about include: Vista; Tuty's; Voir; SEnimations; [Sinse]; Akeyo; Kuso. I think I'm missing some good ones. I'm looking for general AOs, ideally Bento, that either have demos or in-world stores where you can try them out. If there's no way to demo, then not interested.

Miss Piggy

I get crash on close on Big Sur all the time too. I just live with it.

Thanks Amanda - I'll take that on advisement. I've decided to replace the moon with... the Earth - so I can keep an eye on RL while I'm in-world.