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Don't eat each other guys. Instead, try to explain me why is it when my CPU is 70% loaded and GPU about 50%, I still get 17-20 fps with drops to 7-9 fps in some sims? Why can't SL use 100% of the resourses?

Hi everyone. At last I've upgraded my PC. Got an i5 2500K and 8Gb of RAM. Now SL runs smooth most of the time on most of the settings to max. And the GPU at last gets upto 100% loaded ))) And the CPU upto 70% Thanks everyone fro your support. I will just have to optumize the settings. Will take some time to figure out the most GPU heavy things..

Thank you for the clarification. Analized that. It proved what I predicted. The shadows took a lot of CPU time. But I keep them turned off mostly anyway. I gained also 4-5 fps by turning Avast off, as one of the previous posts suggested. (greatful for that!) So if I keep the fraphics settings moderately low and avoid crowded places, I can get around 15 fps. Almost playable. Will have to stick with that and prepare myself to CPU upgrade. I thank every participant in this thread who was trying to help me. You are the best! Sincerely yours.

Hi. Could you please specify how do I find the 'Fast Timers' display? Thanks.

Yeah. It's difficult to understand that. I guess I'll have to contact the LL support. But I expect an answer like "We suggest you upgrade your CPU" By the way. How do I find you in SL to see yuor mesh body you were talking about? )))

Thank you for the reasonable advice. But it didn't help. I turned Avast off and saw no noticable difference. I guess SL requires something more powerful, than some double core 3Ghz.

Here's my info from LL viewer: Second Life 4.0.7.318301 (Second Life Release) Release Notes You are at 90.2, 74.6, 3,000.1 in Nexus Isle located at sim10276.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.198:13016) SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nexus%20Isle/90/75/3000 (global coordinates 263,770.0, 337,483.0, 3,000.1) Second Life Server 16.08.01.318271 Error fetching server release notes URL. CPU: Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.00GHz (3000.95 MHz) Memory: 3583 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit Service Pack 1 (Build 7601) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 21.21.0013.7270 OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 372.70 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.2 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.31 LLCEFLib/CEF Version: 1.5.3-(CEF-WIN-3.2526.1347-32) Voice Server Version: Vivox 4.6.0017.22050 Packets Lost: 553/92,650 (0.6%) September 10 2016 12:46:45 Does enyone see a problem there?

You can try to zoom the screenshot in. With the red arrow I pointed at the FPS reading. It sais 3 FPS. Sometimes it goes up to 7-10 FPS when I am in an empty location (with no other visitors). When I stend next to a wall and look at it (so I see nothing else) FPS might go up to 25-27. When a location is somewhat crouded, FPS is usually 1.2 - 4. And yes, the GPU load is around 3% When I change the grpahics setting to close to maximum, the FPS drops by 1-3 FPS. I found out that the greatest impact on FPS have the atmospheric shaders. With the settings on close to max, the GPU load is never above 30%. Let me answer some questions in advance: - Yes, I've installed the latest GPU drivers. - Yes, all the SL viewers I use (all 4 of them) recognised I've changed the graphocs card by displaying a message and changing the settings. - Yes, the grapgics card works fine. I tried several Nvidia tech demos. They run great. - Yes, the OS utilises the GPU as it should. I see great improvements in video and Flash playback. SL looks so great now with the new GPU. I really want to play it, but it's unplayable now.

That screenshot is made after installing a GTX 670.

It seems the CPU is the bottleneck after all. Here's the performance with all graphics setting set to minimal. 

Thank you so much for making it clear!

my next question may not be very appropriate for this thread, but I don.t know other forums where I could ask it. I have found a GTX 570. But the seller sais he's selling it because his power supply cant feed the graphics card good enough to make it work stable. So he had to underclock it. How do I make sure my power supply will successfully power the card? I havethis tower: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883107012R

Thanks everybody for your replies. I will not add more RAM any time soon because I installed a 32-bit OS by mistake. But I use SSD, so the ammount of RAM is not that critical. Will upgrade GPU first. Ofcourse it will not be anything powerful. I will get something used and cheap (can not spend too much right now) but it will be better than what I have now.

Many thanks to everyone who was participating in this thread! I'll give feedback after having upgraded my graphics card.

Hmmm. That's stramge. I thought nobody uses software rendering (it's when the CPU does) now. Actually I was planning to upgrade my graphics card in the first place. I just want to make sure my CPU isn't the bottle neck.

Hi. you are right. My GPU is low-end. But I used GPU-Z to monitor it. GPU load is around 30%-40%, rarely reaching 80%. I'm ready to upgrade my graphics card, but I want to make sure it will solve the problem. Right now I doubt it. Firestorm 4.7.9 (50527) Aug 4 2016 00:21:28 (Firestorm-Release) with Havok support Release Notes CPU: Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.00GHz (3000.94 MHz) Memory: 3711 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 32-bit (Build 7601) Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.593.100.3-090929a-089303C-ATI OpenGL Version: 2.1.8544 Release RestrainedLove API: (disabled) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.8 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.8 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.61 LLCEFLib/CEF Version: 1.5.3.FS6-(CEF-WIN-3.2526.1366.g8617e7c-32) (Chrome 47.0.2526.80) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Settings mode: Firestorm Viewer Skin: MetaHarper Modern (CoolOcean) Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi) Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt UI Scaling: 1 Draw distance: 64 m Bandwidth: 500 kbit/s LOD factor: 1.5 Render quality: Low (1/7) Advanced Lighting Model: No Texture memory: 512 MB (1) VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): 2016-8-12T19:24:6 Built with MSVC version 1800

Someone contacted me in SL and advised a firestorm viewer. Unfortunately I don't know how to IM that person as didn't add him to my contacts. Anyway, firestorm doesn't change anything. The same poor performance.

Hello eveyone. When I play SL, my processor is 100% loaded most of the time and the frame rate is aound 2-5 fps. All graphics settings are at minimum. I have a Pendium dual core 3.0 Ghz. Surpizingly it's a lot more powerful than the processors in the sys.requirements on this site. What could be the reason for that? Maybe the minimal specs on the site are just outdated? Thanks!