Seafarer Waverider
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Yes, I am running wireless. And my internet is sketchy at times. The price of living on the plains of west Texas.
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21 hours ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Lower your draw distance.
Done and dusted
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13 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
In the viewer, click Help and then About -- copy/paste the info here and we might have more suggestions specific to how you currently have things set.
Second Life Release 6.6.2.573358 (64bit)
Release NotesYou are at 118.9, 172.2, 21.9 in FairChang Office located at simhost-0df8d649ea51a68da.agni
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FairChang Office/119/172/22
(global coordinates 282,743.0, 268,460.0, 21.9)
Second Life Server 2022-08-12.574216
Release NotesCPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz (1094.4 MHz)
Memory: 3920 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19044.1889)
Graphics Card Vendor: Intel
Graphics Card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600Windows Graphics Driver Version: 27.20.100.8681
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 - Build 27.20.100.8681Window size: 1366x745
Font Size Adjustment: 96pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128m
Bandwidth: 3000kbit/s
LOD factor: 1.125
Render quality: 2
Advanced Lighting Model: Disabled
Texture memory: 512MB
Disk cache: Max size 204.0 MB (100.7% used)J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.10.4
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.06
Dullahan: 1.12.3.202111032221
CEF: 91.1.21+g9dd45fe+chromium-91.0.4472.114
Chromium: 91.0.4472.114
LibVLC Version: 3.0.16
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Packets Lost: 48/2,165 (2.2%)
August 19 2022 04:51:38 -
20 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:
Besides these very good suggestions, be sure that SL, its folder, and especially the cache folders, are whitelisted with your antivirus software. SL must download a great many textures, and requiring your AV to vet them all can slow things down. See: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/antivirus_whitelisting
I am pretty much a techno Neanderdahl. I'll give your advice a try but I don't have a clue about what you are saying.
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16 hours ago, Lyssa Greymoon said:
Sometimes the viewers can do a sub-optimal job with the default graphics settings. Like enabling shadows on video cards that have no business trying to do that. Turning off shadows is the #1 way to improve performance.
If you're running Firestorm (which I assume you are because everyone does) go to graphics settings and change water reflections to none (opaque). There's a bug that causes a significant hit to performance even if you're nowhere near any water.
All viewers have an option to enable lossy texture compression. I find this helps, especially in crowded situations because running out of VRAM tanks your performance straight to zero, and this cuts SL's VRAM usage in half. More or less. If you have a computer that struggles with basic computer tasks, this may do more harm than good.
Finally, if you aren't using the Linden viewer, download the latest one and give it a shot, they've introduced some excellent performance improvements.
Being techno savvy challenged I us the Second Life viewer. I have heard it can have issues. Thanks for the advice.
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20 hours ago, Rolig Loon said:
The easy, almost flippant answer is "don't hang around crowds and stay away from places that have a lot of textures and objects to render." You are experiencing the same things we all do. The greatest causes of lag in SL are avatars and the stuff they carry with them and huge numbers of complex objects with way too many textures on them. You can help in your own small way by keeping your avatar's complexity light and by not buying and displaying things that have excessive texturing or hard-to-render mesh. Other than that, there's not much else you can do with what other people carry or create.
On the easier side, you can control what you see. Set your own draw distance (in Preferences >> Graphics) to 64m or less, so that your graphic card doesn't have to render quite so many things, and you can set the Maximum Complexity to 100k or less and the number of Non-Imposter Avatars to something like 10 or fewer. Those last two will reduce the number of avatars that your graphics card has to render fully.
Thanks, I'll try it.
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Second Life Release 6.6.2.573358 (64bit)
Release NotesYou are at 118.9, 172.2, 21.9 in FairChang Office located at simhost-0df8d649ea51a68da.agni
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FairChang Office/119/172/22
(global coordinates 282,743.0, 268,460.0, 21.9)
Second Life Server 2022-08-12.574216
Release NotesCPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz (1094.4 MHz)
Memory: 3920 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19044.1889)
Graphics Card Vendor: Intel
Graphics Card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600Windows Graphics Driver Version: 27.20.100.8681
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 - Build 27.20.100.8681Window size: 1366x745
Font Size Adjustment: 96pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128m
Bandwidth: 3000kbit/s
LOD factor: 1.125
Render quality: 2
Advanced Lighting Model: Disabled
Texture memory: 512MB
Disk cache: Max size 204.0 MB (100.7% used)J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.10.4
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.02.06
Dullahan: 1.12.3.202111032221
CEF: 91.1.21+g9dd45fe+chromium-91.0.4472.114
Chromium: 91.0.4472.114
LibVLC Version: 3.0.16
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Packets Lost: 48/2,165 (2.2%)
August 19 2022 04:51:38-
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I have problems with lag anytime I am around other people or on a sim with a lot of "stuff" (buildings, objects, etc.). I don't have a lot of experience with setting my preferences nor am I tech savvy with a computer. I would appreciate any tips. Thanks
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I have a couple of AOs that have stopped working. One seamed to do it when SL sent an update. The other occured today when my av got stuck in a sitting position and I used the "stop animating me" button. How can I fix these when this happens?
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I have been trying to purchase an item in the SL Marketplace and send it to a friend since 2pm slt. The item is in my cart but when I try to checkout sl goes to a blank web page with this address
I have tried different viewers, clearing cashe, turning off firewalls. Nothing is working.
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I am having the same problem. Have 1 item in my cart to send to a friend and when I try to check out I get the blank screen too.
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Thanks Rolig. I was afraid that was what happening. Yes a few updates ago I was able to use this mini and SL viewer. Then this same problem came up. I did switch to Phoenix but noticed they were having trouble with updates not working. I prefer SL viewer and do use it on my bigger laptop. I'll use the Phoenix viewer on the mini. Thanks again.
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I have put latest version of SL Viewer on my HP Mini. I have set the firewall adjustments to Norton and Windows firewalls as directed by Boston Linden in his 2012 post. Will almost load then crashes. At a loss as to what to do.
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I have two avatars. One can log in fine. The other starts the login process and gets either the region has started the logout process or sl shuts down completely. This just started less than an hour ago.
Update; Now it is happening to both.
Second Update: I think it may be a computer problem. I have an hand-me-down older model Gateway laptop. The cpu fan is running a lot. I think it is starting to overheat. SL draws a lot of power. This computer may be about to give up the ghost.
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I can't thank all you good folks enough for your help. With the lowering of the draw distance, max complexity and # of non-impostors my SL experience today was much better. To those who suggest a new computer it may be in the cards soon. I will continue with this one for as long as I can stand. Thanks to all again.