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The world map does not know of mesh. What it renders is the equivalent of a prim with the same number of faces as the mesh has, as determined when the mesh is uploaded, biased by the size of the base component. The color applied to each face is determined by the average color value of the applied texture, also determined and stored within the texture asset when it is uploaded. It is similar to what one sees when viewing a mesh object with a viewer that does not support mesh. Something similar occurs when viewing a sculpted prim on the world map.

Run FurMark v1.24.1.0. Select GPU Benchmarks Preset: 720. With your hardware you should get 160 FPS and GPU temperature should level off below 80C. If you get significantly lower FPS and/or higher GPU temperature then look for cooling problems such as gerbils stuck in a fan or maybe your clock speeds went into a coma.

I keep myself calm by telling myself that investors that know and like Second Life bought out investors that were no longer interested in what Second Life has become.

Probably more like taking bandages off to see what is oozing underneath them. I recently run into a user on an access network that FORCED every HTTP get through some sort of cache system. They told me it does the same with HTTPS. I don't know if that is even possible. I suspect this hooliganism would mess up their Second Life connections. Maybe it's why they have to use a VPN to login to Second Life from that network but now they are being told to stop using the VPN.

These forums are very tiring.

Clouds when rezzing in the cloud and the cause is cloudy.

Upland, Decentraland and Sominium Space smell like scams to me so they get none of my attention or money. Maybe they just did a *****ty job of explaining what they are.

Second Life Viewer renders via OpenGL, not DirectX, so those message may not be related.

"The source code is our documentation."

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7552

Some routers just can not deal with the number of flows Second Life creates. Some are already dealing with a bunch of flows from other applications. Some carriers discard UDP traffic when their network is experiencing congestion. Do not fear rebooting the firewall / router thing that is between your computer and the Internet. I work in the core network of a carrier and access provider. Sometimes my home service attached PC will drop off SL. When I check connectivity to the simulator host I was connected to when I dropped what I see makes me suspect I was the victim of some overzealous DDoS mitigation system. Further attempts to connect to that host die in transit. If I login to a different region I am successful. Immediate attempts to teleport to or login to the region I was in when dropped fail. However, I can participate in IM chat with others in that region. Half an hour later I may enter the region.

Who supposed that? Give us sources! I only heard and read LL peeps saying they do not yet know if AWS bill would be less than data enter costs. It was mentioned that the computers in the datacenter were about a decade old and probably due for replacement, which would be a big expense.

I do not believe Linden Lab considers the Second Life World Map to be expendable. I believe there is a dependency that must be corrected before the map can work properly again. Some goober probably hard-coded in something that seemed like a good idea at the time that needs to be replaced with something not intermingled in the underlying infrastructure, which has now changed.

Perhaps "EEPs" is a bit too.... weird. How about "environments"? Too generic? Need a specific to Second Life term? Probably never should have called them "windlights" in the first place. Now we are stuck with it. We probably never should have called our original security devices "orbiters". Now we are stuck with a shortened version, "orbs", because people got suspended for orbiting and the devices no longer "do that". Shame, now people say it's because they are round. Somebody start a new thread so we can all contribute to an informal Second Life Glossary? Nah, that would be too organized for this bunch a hooligans! 😉

I want the one with yellow stripes on both sides.

What a unique idea. You could call it OpenSimulator.

@Nyara Squeegee There is a viewer bug that will sometimes change the alpha mode on an object you can modify. I suggest using the object's LOCK property until this bug is resolved in a released viewer. [BUG-11333] Alpha masked textures occasionally changing to alpha mode none without any interaction. - Second Life Bug Tracker @Whirly Fizzle Has this been resolved? Is a viewer update all Nyara needs?

The topology of the Internet is not nearly geographical. It is weird. It changes often. Many recent changes seem to have been detrimental to performance which often means they were cost driven. From my location I have three 10 gigabit connections to large peer networks and distribute those around the state on a 100 gigabit network. It is not unusual to have to make traffic engineering changes to resolve user issues with a specific destination because a peer is using a peer that is doing something weird. Unfortunately for the end users they must engage the network operators when this happens and we often have trouble understanding their reports. In the case of Second Life and Linden Lab, they are end users with almost no visibility into the peering and transport systems. ICMP ECHO is low priority traffic and MAY be discarded in transit and MAY be delayed or discarded by the target. The same goes for “traceroute” probes. Not all elements in the transport systems are IP hops. Many are carrying IP over MPLS or some other encapsulation and this will not show as a hop on traceroute output. I do think the Second Life Viewer still uses a lot of UDP packets for application data. I have been seeing that some carriers are discarding UDP to avoid congestion and slowdown of TCP flows. When I discover this I am usually troubleshooting an end user complaint. The solutions available are to TCP encapsulate the UDP flows or change routing to avoid the lame carrier. Ideally the UDP traffic would not be impeded. UDP is selected for discard during near-congestion conditions because the vast majority of UDP traffic on the Internet is malicious in nature or being generated by peer-to-peer file sharing protocols that were originally designed to defeat now obsolete traffic management methods.

Check the alpha mode on those object faces and ensure they are NOT set to “none”. If they are then perhaps they are victims of a viewer malfunction inadvertently caused by a change that was intended to reduce the impact on performance caused by temporarily missing textures.

SL’s ToS, with its ‘LL owns everything’ stance and the fact that the platform is not available in a ‘you own it all’ instance has killed off many commercial considerations. LL perhaps knows this and perhaps has no intentions of going to ‘Nebraska’ again. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to put any commercial investment into using SL to promote or document real world assets as they would be giving it all away. On the other hand, SL real-estate costs and the learning curve imposed upon visitors have squelched many public information and virtual tourism efforts. SL, thus, remains the venue for those of us that have made the emotional and time investments to become comfortable here, while, what may have attracted us in the past, is “too hard for visitors”, “too expensive for the duration” or “too transferant of ownership of intellectual property” to attract new traffic of significance. @Klytynalaughs

Too many “peeved” threads and all the repetitive posts in them.

Hmmm, would adding +string to the gmail address get around this issue? If so, that might be educational. example@gmail.com example+word@gmail.com

I tried OpenSimulator. The loud sucking sound was too distracting.

I have had computers do that. One had a failing SATA controller on the motherboard. The others had Mushkin SSDs in them. I replaced the Mushkin SSDs with Samsung SSDs and had no more trouble. This was some years ago. I am not saying all Mushkins are bad, but, the 3 I bought certainly were! All 4 machines would freeze with the last rendered frame on screen. I had to power cycle them to get them going again. Interestingly enough, the ones with Mushkin SSDs in them would recover if I power cycled JUST the SSD.

Do we need a Frontier Grid where developers can break content and clauses?