Jackson Redstar

1200-1500 build your own PC will be good for SL. SL is diminishing return too I recently rebuilt my system I did back in 2012 and went from a gtx1080 to a rtx 3070, Barely a difference in FPS performance But because I do alot of video was worth it for rendering. Point is you don't need to get to crazy to build a decent machine for SL

in Windows I remember there is a 'game mode' in the settings - I cannot recall the exact thing, but I had a newer system and was having alot the same issues and it turned out to be something to do with game mode settings. It is a bit fuzzy for me but I seem to remember also i had to turn off (I think) Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. In any case, sometimes in crowded sims, SL still does the stutter and I can visually see it in the task manager monitoring the GPU graph If you are seeing this recording, at least in OBS, you can monitor to see if you are getting rendering lag or encoding lag. Lately, for some reason, I been getting at random times extreme encoding lag even though nothing has changed in my hardware, software or settings. I also use the FPS limiter in FS set to 32

I can remember even after having had a verified paypal account for over a decade, when Tillia came around I had to get get 're verified' which included among other things, dancing on one leg in a pink sock while the other was wearing blue, naming each of my 10 toes and the reason I chose those names, identifying 100 different species of birds along with naming the last 200 transactions on Linden, the exact amount and the reason for them. Sure would hate to go through all that all over again!

shift+alt+ctrl+4 - turn off all avatars - including yourself

i know it is way off topic from the top post, but since we also talking about recording video i did a simple OBS tut a bit back

OK I should clarify. I am looking at this from the perspective of creating video in world. Lowering draw distance is not always an option, Turning off Dynamic Draw helps keeps things rezzed but it can really degrade performance. And MSAA - Im not even sure that is.

all these devs in the comments here melting my brain with technical explanations. Are there any good debug setting we can set to increase visual performance? I remember back in the old days there was settings like MeshTriangles or something and Triangle-something, damn i can't remember them now, but is there anything someone with a 'powerful enough' computer can do to, when it comes to tweaking debug settings, to improve visual performance?

or. it could be the case with the official viewer - why bother? if you really really want to defender something - just use Firestorm

and of course, in the 'old days' - pre 2021, LS could be a little side hustle, money for gas, some groceries , but now - anything more than 600 bucks, in the USA, you get in a for instance, PayPal account, is reported to the IRS - so now, those measly scraps of Lindens you did get, you now get the pleasure of reporting it and potentially owing taxes on it!

Scotty - I need more RAM!!!! 32 gig RAM is really minimum nowadays. And not just any RAM - buy the fastest you can afford

you can use the alt + mouse to move the camera and you some cam smoothing (assuming you are on Firestorm) You can also use (with some cam smoothing) alt + arrow keys, that will give you rotate left/right/up/down and while holding alt key press the ctrl key the up/down arrow keys will now give you a tilt up/down. Note this also works holding down these keys and moving your mouse. Finally you have pan left/right/up/down if you hold down the shift+ctrl+alt and use the arrow keys - but - the cam smoothing does not work when panning (sure wish it did!) but for basic movements while filming you can get great results just using alt, alt + ctrl, arrow keys and cam smoothing or the same alt, alt+ ctrl plus cam smoothing and the mouse. Takes a little practice to get all that coordinated

... objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear......

obviously doing anything web related or SL related SRGB is what you want. However, I have a nice older Dell monitor and switched to a BenQ 100% sRGB monitor, I also do alot of video color grading of SL footage. For me , absolutely zero difference. And of course, keep in mind almost all users are looking at web material - or SL, using a regular monitor, laptop or maybe tablet - trying to squeeze that extra 1% of color space accuracy won't mean anything. Just get a good monitor with good specs

if there was really AI 'companion' avatars - They would probably be attracted to each other! wouldn't that be a hoot? 2 AI bots dating each other

but i do wonder how long before we can buy our own AI girlfriend/boyfriend on MP....