Jackson Redstar

This may not be the right place for this but is there any official Linden word , or Trilla, on payment throug the new Fed Now? Will they contunue using PayPal account? Will funds be transfer to/from using Fed Now? This would of course be for USA accounts

OK ty I use the studio driver actually it is still on 531.61 so Ill wait til it updates and see if that solves the issue

thats a multi-part answer, you have recorder software, most i think use OBS) then record format, then encoder which will depend on your hardware, then a resolution size which again depends on your hardware, then decide on a video editor (which alot of good ones are free) then tons of practice (which is free of course) And get a youtube account, but now adays people also shoot for tiktok format

I been noticing lately sometimes at crowded events I get alot of 'stuttering' from time to time - where the animations start/stop rapidly, even with a fixed view position. This can also be observed in the GPU task manager window - rapid cycling of gpu usage, Sometimes it clears up on its own after a bit sometines requires a restart, Wondering if this is a SL issue, or, I think more likely a Windows issue, and if anybody has seen it and what the cure (if any) might be Firestorm 6.6.8 (68380) Jan 3 2023 19:59:43 (64bit / SSE2) (Firestorm-Releasex64) with Havok support Release Notes CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz (3792 MHz) Memory: 30911 MB Concurrency: 8 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 22621.1555) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 Graphics Card Memory: 8192 MB Windows Graphics Driver Version: 31.0.15.3161 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 531.61 Texture memory: Dynamic (4096 MB min / 21% Cache / 10% VRAM) Disk cache: Max size 9984.0 MB (100.0% used) Built with MSVC version 1934 Packets Lost: 0/3,718 (0.0%) May 09 2023 05:06:20 SLT

IMO, a 'walking around' viewer already a few choices. From my perspective, what I really want is a machinima viewer - one that works with gamer PCs. I really like Lindens viewer now as far as performace but if falls far, far short of working for machinima work. And by that I don't mean on an empty sim with one or 2 avatars, but a regular sim with 50+ avis on it. Firestorm always has been the overall best viewer for that, but it is still slow and sluggish alot of the times. I just don't think there are many use cases develepors work off of that machinima based use cases

actually the official viewer almost always gets close to double the FPS comepare to FS. On a lower spec system like a laptop, the official viewer might be a better choice

Unless you were a photographer, doing say, weddings. Hours spent fixing the avatars, the hair, the system clothes, the nose, shoulders, elbows. Good times LOL

problem is really all the chat"AI" is good at is scanning the internet for for availble information and then responding with a summary in a human like format. It doesn't think, ponder, come up with new ideas, or offer opinions. It is basically a better way to slice bread or put butter on toast.

SL has been really stable the last number of years, at least on firestorm. The main issues always end up being windows or someother software or a hardware issue, An i7 or AMD equivelent, 3070 and 32 gig of ram. and don't forget the SSD drives, preferable on .m2. That, and LOTS and plenty of cooling, or air flow, Don't need water cooling, but a good tower, good fans and keep that sucker clean

with win11 and just SL running I am often using 14-16 gig or more of ram. Stick with the 32

Need to come up with a better name. Cannot say PBR without thinking of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer lol

SL is really not meant for laptops IMO, They turn into a portable toaster oven (lol) and with the newer code now, the graphics card can ramp up even more, often running at 90%+ for extended periods of time, assuming you have ALM with shadows on

Interesting but I am pretty sure this 10th i7 I got I ordered with no iGPU if I remember correctly. In any case no quicksync option in OBS for me

Its the avatar that is killing SL. With a good machine almost all sims perform well, You can walk around with all the shader and shadows on, a decent draw distance. Add in a few Avis and most places start turning into pea soup. Get 30-50 avis together for a event, you now got a bowl of frozen molasses

I am what I consider myself a 'power user' but also mostly tech unaware, There are 2 main issues in SL - one is inside of SL itself and one in your own computer that requires someone to have a Masters in Computers to use SL correctly. You have to be able to find cache directioies, white list files and folders, optimize processes, while list for security scans, it is never ending. One does not simply install Sl and "play" Inside SL you have to know all the ins and outs of the veiwer, how to try to overcome lag issues when they arrive, how to set all the preferences, learn a few debug settings. You have to learn all about EEPs, how to change lighting, local lites, attached lites... again SL is not someting a novice can really install and play and expect out of the box good performance even with a higher end computer. When SL works, it works good and its amazing, When it sucks it sucks bad and you wanna take a hammer to your computer sometimes. SL has good days and bad days. At least Firestorm has gone along way to make the UI (mostly) usable

turned out really nice. great BW conversion and DOF, And damn if the girl avi isn't a spitting image of Amy Lee! I did this song years ago though the concept was vastly different was about the dude's gf died in a car crash and she couldn't move on cause he wouldn't let her go. Such a great song one my favs!

can't really benchmark SL anyways, SL is like a woman - sometimes she is in a good mood and everything goes smooth and easy, next miniute, bad mood and no matter what you do it's all horrible! 😂

"META" is DOA but Zuck has enough bucks to keep that thing around for years

one last thing though.. need to turn off the "dynamic rendering' (in FS anyways) when videoing a scene - this will prevent mesh objects from disappearing and suddenly reappearing as you are say, doing a zoom in shot. This of course forces the viewer to render everying within draw distance which can add alot to the FPS eating

OBS captures your mics on your computer - or the sound from desktop. so really the only way to record them would be through SL voice.

maybe packets got intercepted by chinese spy balloons? lol

Unfortunlately, I need to video events like weddings, so most couples prefer their guests to be present on video LOL, But really, there must be a solution for those with 'higher end" gaming systems to be able to use SL at more than 10fps in crowded areas. But oh well such is SL.....

animats: What is the biggest problem Second Life users report? Bot: ..... and poor customer service. animats: I am getting stuck logging into Second Life. What should I do? Bot .... you can contact Second Life support for further assistance. LOL somethings never change, not even fancy new AI Bots

from what I read the server doesnt wait for your machine to handshake it just sends to packets and won't resend if missed. But I still have to question - these bandwidth specs were the same back in 2007 when if you were on a "fast" internent then it was probably up to 5mbs - and the typical computer back then was prob less than a 1/8th as fast as they are now. So a decade and a half later there has been no improvement in delivering data via UDP?

OK. Not knowing whay UDP is I looked it up. But I still wonder then in 2023 when internet speeds are often 100+ mbs download - we would need to limit download of these packets to 1.5 mbs. Suppose it makes sense but still seems rather outdated