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From the Firestorm web page the install was tested but not on derivatives, such as Pop OS or LinuxMint. I use Linux Mint so I don't know if the install will work or not, I'm not a geek, I use Mint because its easy, and its not windozs! Warnings about "if it will remove any other packages" stops me from even thinking about installing Firestorm, I would have no clue. I have installed CoolVLViewer to see how another viewer works on my system, but I am a bit lost using it so far, so I guess there is a bit of a learning curve to it. But I will say it started me off with a draw distance of 512m and no hesitation or slow down of my avatar, I am impressed with that, and it tells me I don't have a problem with my system.
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Humm, Ryzen 5 good enough?... I have a Ryzen 7 7700X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8G, 32G memory on a ASUS gaming Mainboard. When loading the latest version of Kokua I got a message that said I will have problems running Second Life with my hardware, it is not sufficient to run SL. And running SL all I can say is it was not kidding. The system is new this year and I thought it was fairly good and even a little overkill for Second Life, but I guess not. So what does it take to run Second Life now days?
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Is there a way to block PBR items ?
Teagan Tobias replied to Cam Mode's topic in General Discussion Forum
I think its unfortunate that creators are or need to make SL their real life income. It makes the price of things to high, but let them charge what the market will bear and good for them, I guess. The owner of a store I used to go to a long time ago said she was closing her store shortly after mesh came out, her reason was, she created for fun and the fun was now gone. But for me, my mesh avatar is so old most don’t create for it any longer. But I have been buying clothing for her literally for years and seldom go shopping any longer. I gave up looking at SL21B shopping, I saw nothing for my avatar, nothing. When you have almost 100K inventory for mostly one avatar shopping is not needed. Do I miss new things? I did for a while but I got over it and now only buy when I see a special discount, but there is not much I really need, but there is very little new for my avatar any how so it is a moot point. LOL my shopping days are mostly over. -
Preventing TP to G-rated regions
Teagan Tobias replied to Cinnamon Mistwood's topic in General Discussion Forum
LOL, that’s ok, I don’t need a pic, I believe you. I’m just saying it does not appear to work that way for me. From your posts I see your using firestorm, I’ve never used that viewer, I use Kokua. Not saying that has anything to do with it but still, I’m not seeing the same thing your seeing. Its kind of weird. -
Preventing TP to G-rated regions
Teagan Tobias replied to Cinnamon Mistwood's topic in General Discussion Forum
I use BoM lingerie all the time and I never see a naked avatar, my BoM clothing is there. Even if you remove your mesh body the BoM clothing is still there, at least that is what I just saw testing it in world. And that is why I use BoM, so there is no naked body on TP. I could be wrong but that is how it is working for me, maybe the viewer has something to do with it. -
You can also just use the world map to go to any height. Open the map, change the height and hit teleport, I think any viewer can use the world map. I’ve never used Firestorm so I don’t know anything about that viewer.
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Before I get to involved I decided to just make a bootable USB and look at 21.3 edge for newer hardware. Made the USB and it would not boot, I have half a dozen bootable USB drives, distros – gparted – foxclone, and because this is the first time I have booted with a USB on my new system I tried booting with something that I know works, and it worked fine. I verified the download and had no problems making the USB so I’m not sure what to think, I may try to rebuild the USB again later with a new download. But for now SL will just half to make do with what I have. Thanks for your input.
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I have downloaded the mint 21.3 edge iso and will make a system disk to play with and see what happens. I’m slow and my test system is still not back together after having everything moved out of the house for some work on the floors, but this sounds like fun, thanks for your input.
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Yes, I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21, but you’ve bypassed my capabilities, LOL, I think you’ve gone to plaid. For what ever its worth my update manager tells me my system is up to date, but I will do some reading, thanks for the input.
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Thanks, and I have that viewer installed. Have used it off and on over the years but Kokua is what I am comfortable with, I know where things are. Cool VL Viewer is nice but because I don’t use it often enough I have trouble finding things. But its a clean sharp display, and I do use it as a second viewer from time to time.
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OK, this is a game changer, texture compression has made a world of difference. The jerky motion has stopped and things are looking better. But, I must say, so far I am no fan of PBR, could do without that. But Kokua includes in the Environmental settings Mid-day (legacy) and that brings back SL as I know it and like it. I have never been able to figure out the fancy lighting stuff so never use it. I imagine PBR will be the same for me. Thanks.
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You appear to be fixing my problems so please keep pointing out changes I can make, I’m floundering here without help. LOL, I’m so bad at Second Life I have literally had people ask me, why are you still here. But I like SL even though I’m very poor at making it work right. I’m going to need to take another look at the Kokua update and see if I can figure something out with that. Thanks again.
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I changed the texture memory to 4096, that’s as high as it will go and going to a busy region its looking better. Then I noticed there is an update to Kokua and I down loaded and updated. One of the problems is the texture memory settings have disappeared from the viewer, I can’t move, most of my surroundings are missing, there are blank squares of nothing, its... ugly as. I waited to see if it stabilized, nothing, then logged off and then logged back on, same thing, I’ve never seen anything like this. Logged off and back on to give it another go, still can’t move and still can’t see many things. I’ve used Kokua since before it was Kokua and have never had a problem like this. I’m going back to the older version of the viewer for now, I may be looking for a new viewer, I can’t do anything like this. I’ve gone back to the older version of Kokua and Second Life is back, I can move and everything is there and the texture memory is set to 4096. I QUIT FOR NOW!! Thanks for you help Amelia.
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Kokua Release RLV 6.6.16.55167 (64bit) Release Notes Second Life Server 2024-02-21.7995320426 Release Notes CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor (3000 MHz) Memory: 31213 MB OS Version: Linux 5.15.0-101-generic #111-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 5 20:16:58 UTC 2024 x86_64 Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.147.05 Window size: 1920x1052 Font Size Adjustment: 96pt UI Scaling: 1 Draw distance: 128m Bandwidth: 1500kbit/s LOD factor: 3 Render quality: 5 Advanced Lighting Model: Enabled Texture memory: 1024MB Disk cache: Max size 1638.4 MB (100.3% used) RestrainedLove API: Disabled J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.2.1 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.15 CEF-Version: Dullahan: 1.12.2.202203281254 CEF: 91.1.23+g04c8d56+chromium-91.0.4472.164 Chromium: 91.0.4472.164 LibVLC Version: 2.2.3 Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with GCC version 70500 Packets Lost: 0/2695 (0.0%) April 01 2024 09:57:10 ================================= I also modify: RenderAvatarLODFactor -- 3 RenderAvatarPhysicsLODFactor -- 2 RenderVolumeLODFactor -- 3 MeshMaxConcurrentRequests -- 30
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OP should have no problem running SL with listed parts. And I would say its overkill for SL, why... I recently replaced my PC and I see little to no difference in SL, I increase my draw distance a little, sometimes, but still my FPS are not much different. Listing old and new for comparison... CPU, Ryzen 7 1800X (AM4) - Ryzen 7 7700X (AM5) GPU, ASUS GTX 1060 3G - ASUS RTX 4060 8G Memory, both 32G Mainboard, ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F Viewer sets both systems one notch below ultra. Mostly what I do in SL is go to live concerts, I still see avatars blink in and out of sight (at around 15m distance) with the new PC like I did with my old PC. Like I said, not much difference in how SL runs on the two systems. I don’t know what difference it makes but I run Linux Mint Cinnamon 21