mgjackson

Thanks. I've found the HTTP Texture setting. Presumably if turned off it uses UDP. Why would reducing the bandwidth slider improve things - woudln't it be better to increase it to what ever my ISP provides?

Thanks, I'll look at the performance tools. The sympton is that the avatar stops walking or if flying, just hangs there. Can still move about the camera about, and if there was still rendering occuring, that continues. After a minute or so get the "Darn, you have been logged out of Second Life". This also sometimes occurs when looking at the in client destinations or search guide - close or minimise those windows to find the avatar is now routed to the spot.

Thanks, others have been here before me with the same ideas :-) These are my views as a week old user and views change as expeirecence does, so thought worth posting my initial observations.

Apologies, I started this thread in the wrong place. CPU: AMD FX-4170 Quad-Core Processor (4218.95 MHz) Memory: 8174 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (Build 6000) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GT 520/PCI/SSE2 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0012.8562 OpenGL Version: 4.2.0 RestrainedLove API: (disabled) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: OpenJPEG: 1.4.0, Runtime: 1.4.0 Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with MSVC version 1600 The router is a Netgear FS318, which is a pro router for office use. Connection is cable and the PC is wired. When it works, it all works well - no problems rendering and the graphics all look fantastic. >You don't quite seem to get what Second Life is. I understand ok, just the observation is its not that intuitive. If some of these things were hidden away then perhaps it would make the sim more accessable.

Hi, I've been on Second Life now for about a week, and my biggest issue has been the client. If Linden want to attract new members, then this needs to be seriously revamped. The first issue is, it doesn't actually work - well, at least not for very long. The official Linden client drops the connection after a minute or so. As a techy, I was able to hunt around and find a 3rd party viewer, and am using the catznp one...which looks almost the same, so not sure why someone would re-write the same thing in the first place. This seems better, but will still randomly drop the connection. The PC I'm using is brand new high-spec, bare bones machine intended only for games playing - it doesn't even have email. I've tried on another machine, and all I get is a black window. I guess many others have failed at the first hurdle - tried the client, its fallen over and gone off and found another sim - I've played Runescape for over 6 years and never had any such issues. The other issue is, its overly complicated - I've played in the sandbox and had fun making shapes, I've even written a couple of scripts - one of them actually goes off to an external server and brings back some data, which if you think about it, is pretty cool. I think I've covered a lot of ground in quite a short time :-) Buy why is all this development stuff there - really that should be hidden away and the UI simplified. Surely there's no need for an edit option if an object is protected. Even wearing clothes seems diificult - Its easy to switch outfits, but why is when dressing up the avatar there's 'wear' and 'attached' . I mean, I understand why and the difference and once you've sused it, its fine, but this could be done better and its certainly not new user friendly. Rant over....

I'm a Brit! I was at the Adult Hub (the one thats in the newbie part of the destinations guide) and the general consensus was all the male avatars there were brits as well.

>For the absolute maximum in freedom, you can buy an entire private region yourself. Freedom has its price though...$1,000 USD to start, and $295/mo. USD thereafter Yes, I was quite astounded by that. In the real world I own 13.5 acres (54632m2) of woodland and thought it would be useful to have that modeled in SL so we can have an idea of what any future changes would look like. However, the monthly costs of the tier are actually more than the loan payments on the real thing.

I was wondering that. in West Haven, the price of a couple of 512 plots was 40,000L$....that seems a lot, even in real money thats quite a sum. I think the location was West Haven (239, 67, 26). If your next door neighbour decided to build (say) a sewage works next door, its going to adversly affect your land value.

I'm a new resident, and I chose from the default list the goth with the lank black hair...I guess a young Severous Snape :-) However, my avatar wears a (bad) Red Dwarf T-shirt and a pair of German army camo combat trousers...because that's what I tend to wear in RL went I off out doing my bush-crafting stuff at weekends, and it amused me that I could find those clothes on the marketplace. Also means that not only am I not the the best dressed person in RL, I'm one of the scruffiest SL residents as well :-)

Thanks. Looking at the area where its civilised, its a place called West Haven, the streets owned my Micheal Linden, so presumably this isn't a private region. Where is appears to be more chaotic is the area around the Arosa region and surrounding places. Maybe its just different areas attract different residents.

Hi, I'm a new resident, but thinking about becoming a full memeber Been looking at the private residences, and in some areas it seems a complete disaster...players 512m2 plots are all packed in together back to back so some have put up huge screens with fake back drops, in other places there's beautiful, presumably professionally built houses next to badly made home made ones. Yet in another part of the mainland, plots have been neatly laid out in blocks with roads inbetween and all of the houses are sensible - no massive towers or strange or half finished ones. Are there rules where in someplaces anything goes, and others where a degree of decorum in the house design is expected. Thanks, mgjackson