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Even more on this, for anyone who cares, or just wants to build a super low end system for SL. Less complex player run spaces and less populated places run amazingly well. Im getting 35fps+ at this beach for example. The settings of course arent anything fancy but its very playable and very smooth with these framerates. I went back to social island and with ~5 or 6 people there i got a decent 25-30fps, i think when i did the above test there may have just some particularly heavy detail avatars around. Upping the draw distance to 256 drops it to around 30fps, lowering it so 64 (fine for smaller places) brings it up to 40+.

I dont think youre gonna push ultra on 500-600 britbux. The biggest factor for overall smooth performance in SL is a decent processor, to get Ultra graphical settings out of it you dont need too crazy of a GPU though, but definitely not on the low end. If you want to get the best performance out of that budget, you'd be building your own PC. Youre not going to find a 600 bongdollar laptop thats going to get that kind of performance in SL, nothing new and not without some upgrades/repairs or some serious deal hunting on ebay. And even then youre going to want to go back a generation or two to save you some money on the platform as a whole, and to find cheaper used items. Since the performance difference across intel processors in the last 4 or 5 generations is so small, you can go back a fair bit and be fine, you dont really need the i5 8400 or whatever, with the expensive LGA 1151 X370 motherboards and DDR4 memory. You can go back to say, an i5 4690 and the cheap LGA 1150 B85 motherboards, DDR3 memory and save a lot of money that way, use the savings for a decent modern mid tier gpu OR older equivalent used. You can get a GTX 1060 or you can try and find a used GTX 970, or something like an R9 290. Though as you go further back power efficiency decreases and you'd want a better power supply. A 1060 is a 140w single 6 pin sort of card, an R9 290 requires dual 8 pins and draws like 300w of power. So something fairly modern from parts in that budget would be like a Ryzen 3 1200, some cheap A320 motherboard, 8gb of DDR4, a basic 1TB 7200rpm HDD, a decent power supply and case (though you may want to go for a combo to save a bit of money, stuff like that is usually kinda chincy and not that great, but for a low power low end modern build the weak power supplies and below par cases arent a big issue from a power delivery and airflow standpoint), for a GPU look into an RX 460/560 or GTX 1050ti. I wouldnt suggest going newer intel because the last few generations of intel processors have really small performance increases and buying a brand new i7 7700k is a minimal performance gain (especially for SL, a very singled thread performance loving game) over a now 5 year old i7 4770k. Same goes for an i5 7600k vs an i5 4690k or most other intel equivalents besides the Pentium G4560, which is significantly better than a Pentium G4400 or G3258 due to the hyperthreaded cores on the 4560. Now if you dont want to build your own, that gets more tricky on a budget. Theres generally a premium for prebuilts, they have to make their money somehow, they pay essentially the same as an end consumer for the parts so the machines cost more since they come built and with a full system warranty and all that. And really 500-600 crumpetroos might not be enough for anything too decent. Most machines im finding online in that range dont have dedicated GPU options, and the ones that do are modern low end like GT 1030's and more recent i3 processors. Try and look for a used system online with some form of i5 with a minimum of a 4 digit number in it starting with at least a 2000, and a GTX graphics card of some form with at least a 700 in it, or an AMD card with at least R7 in the name. There are a lot of OEM office lease cycle machines online (dell optiplexes, HP DC series, lenovo thinkcenters) that have decent specs for fairly cheap. You can find a lot of Optiplex 790 or 990's on ebay for ~200 burgerbucks in fully refurbished condition with 2nd gen i5/i7's, 8gb of ram, Windows 7/10 or whatever. Then you can add in some kind of PCIe power only graphics solution, low profile of course because theyre usually small form factor machines, like a low profile GTX 1050ti (MSI makes one and i think Gigabyte has one as well?) and that would be a decently powerful machine for maybe 300-350 USD. And if you've never done a GPU upgrade before, in the case of a pcie power only option in a machine like that, its very simple, its a matter of putting square peg in square hole and fastening a screw or two before installing drivers. You can however sometimes find people who have already done such a thing and are selling their fully upgraded machine online, frequently you can find earlier machines like that with things like Core2Quad Q6600's and GTX 750ti's. Because its a very common project for people on a budget, cheap office PC + upgrades = best price to performance option. And you can find newer generation versions of that sort of build, with more recent intel i5/7's and things like GTX 950's or even 1050ti/RX 560 sort of ordeals. Though that isnt too common and you really have to search for those in the tsunami of used optiplexes for sale online. When you find one though, the people who are getting rid of them are usually people who finally bought a much better PC build, so they sell for cheap. Like finding a gold nugget in a river of mediocrity. You can also go a few steps up of course to suit your budget, maybe look into a used Dell Precision from the same era and a better graphics card, precisions are workstations and have better power supplies usually with a pcie 6 pin power connector, which means you can go up to something like a GTX 1060. Though those machines are more expensive than the more common and less upgradable SFF optiplexes that have flooded the market. And as i stated above, office lease cycle machines, those little silver boxes in every public library and boring office are only used for 3-4 years most of the time, and after a generation is replaced, resellers unload them on ebay in bulk for super cheap. And that includes a lot of machines, look into each companies business machine lineup, Dell has Optiplexes, Lenovo has Thinkcenters, HP has the DC lineup. Thats just your best options on a budget like this if you need decent performance, a brand new machine for 500-600 poundaroonies is not going to give you the performance you want, building your own or buying a prebuilt used is your best option. If youre not comfortable with those options you can still just spend 600 teadollars on a new laptop, just be aware that youre paying more for what in the end is going to be weaker performance. Most laptops in that price range are either only going to have integrated graphics, which would run SL fine but definitely not on ultra settings and probably not above 720p. Or youre going to find very low quality, low end "gaming" laptops with things like Skylake mobile i5's and the infamous Nvidia 940MX, which is a terrible mobile graphics card but still somewhat better than integrated. Look out for these, Acer has a bunch of them and they basically fall apart after a year, and the 940MX is specifically named and included in these machines because its super cheap to slap into a laptop, and people confuse it with "GTX 9xx" desktop graphics cards and presume its good, when really it compares performance wise to something like a GT 745, which nowadays is very underpowered and kinda just barely enough to run things like GTA V in 720p on low/medium settings at around 40 frames per second, which translate to SL means about medium settings before you see the graphics card produce a bottleneck that would start killing the framerate at higher settings.

Thats actually pretty decent for ram and an SSD (im sorry i realized this post is fairly old now), considering a single 8GB stick in the US can be 60-70$, so youre essentially spending 20 bucks on an SSD that would normally cost about 50-60 on its own. Thats a good deal.

Literally why lmao Im on 8gb right now and SL runs fine, even on 64 bit firestorm i peak at maybe 3gb tops. People really overestimate the stuff you need for SL, im running pic related and its perfectly fine for SL in 1080p on general medium settings to get decent framerates, though dropping to 720p and its much better. Note that everything in this computer except the SSD and Windows 8.1 is from 2007. A modern day equivalent in general performance is like an early dual core i3, and i mean like 2nd gen tops maybe, and a Nvidia GT 720. You can comfortably get away with a very mediocre system if that mediocre system can spread the load between the CPU and GPU well. The q6600 is an ok-ish processor that handles SL well from a CPU perspective, the FX 4600 is mediocre at best in 2018 but handles the graphics stuff fairly well (actually tested, compared to an 8800 GT from 2007, its consumer equivalent, it actually does perform slightly better due to workstation quadro drivers and how SL is laid out as more of a 3D workspace than anything). In 2018 to smoothly run SL you probably only need a decently modern Quadcore with a good single thread score and a mid range GPU. Something like an i5 2500 and a GTX 750ti would be very mid/low tier nowadays and would play SL like a dream. For newer stuff, a Ryzen 3 1200 and an RX 550 or GTX 1050 would be plenty for SL. In OP's case, if its a laptop, a 32 bit windows 7 era celeron is likely Meron-L or Penryn based system, Sandy Bridge at the latest, but by then you would see 64 bit OS's so i presume earlier windows 7 era. With integrated graphics from that time, SL will be barely playable. Its time for a new laptop basically. If its a desktop, any of those eras would be a quick CPU upgrade and toss in an appropriate GPU for cheap and youre golden for SL. Because Windows 7 era LGA 775 celerons, ranging from the E1600 to the E3500, would've been later LGA 775 chipsets which means theres a lot of backwards compatibility and upgrades would be super cheap. My above Core2Quad Q6600 seemingly runs on just about any 775 chipset and they cost like 15 bucks tops. But again, that is IF this is a desktop.

Being degenerate furry trash, i prefer certain species and i dont like the more "classic" avatar look of the mid 2000's that a lot of players have stuck onto. Bright colors, piercings, chains and leather straps and all that. Ya know, the edgy school shooter limp bizkit aesthetic. I get that people like that, and i wouldnt shame someone for dressing up their avatar how they like, but im just not attracted to it at all. I prefer a more "average" look, which is why i keep my avatar very basic, just the base avatar in natural neutral colors and a nice two texture shirt. I also prefer more realistic (or as realistic as this kinda thing gets anyway) avatar design, no giant primpaws or excessively angled digitigrade legs.

-If you need it, sure. For regular use and only one SL viewer open at once 8gb is fine, 16gb if youre a heavy multitasker. See how much you use first, open everything you can think of having open at once, and see if you need more than 8gb. -An SSD as a boot drive for your operating system and to store commonly used programs would be beneficial as the increased read/write speed of solid state drives will reduce loading times, speed up program cache and all that kinda stuff. -As a regular consumer you dont need to worry about it too much, its a security risk but the people who would exploit it really wouldnt care about some home PC. Its a problem for large datacenters and especially cloud based servers.

If you've got a decent processor you should be able to max out SL pretty comfortably on a 1080. But even high end processors can cause a bottleneck of sorts for SL, seen people with 7700k's and 1080ti SLI that dont push 60fps on max settings in even just 1080p in some places.

1) QM is a high wattage quadcore, you wont find them outside of high end gaming laptops. Y is ultra low voltage, M is standard mobile dual cores and theres nothing wrong with them. Optimally for SL you'd want a quadcore, and there are some lower tier quadcore options out there that are recent, but really any M suffix dual core processor from the last few generations will be fine. Avoid M prefixes, U suffixes and Y prefixes/suffixes. Sadly, outside of "gaming" and workstation laptops, for recent generations youre not going to find much of anything other than U suffixes. The recent mobile generations, intel 7000/8000 are almost all ULV processors. Doesnt mean theyre bad, just that you cant really compare them as close to their desktop counterparts anymore. 2) A large part of SL is very single threaded, and single thread performance is very important. Clock speed isnt the biggest issue as long as youre over 1.8ghz or so, ive run SL on way less without too much of a CPU bottleneck. You can comfortably get away with a modern dual core with decent single thread speed unless you multitask heavily, in which case you want a quadcore, because while SL might not be fully utilizing two cores on its own, its still using two cores, so anything else is going to start straining them further, 4 cores to spread out the load is better. Also a bunch of slow cores != comparative to a few fast cores, theres correlation for sure, but you want overall performance metrics in terms of single and multi threaded scores from various benchmarks over anything. Thats why AMD's FX series processors were so bad for some things and great for others, they were high core count at high speed, but they were very weak cores. An FX 9590 is a 5ghz 8 core processor that got blown out by the i7 4790k, a 4ghz quadcore. 3) Really theres not too much difference between generations of i series mobile processors, honestly you could go back to Ivy Bridge and be fine, as in something like an i5 2580m from 2012 so long as its paired with a decent graphics solution, since the integrated graphics from then werent that great. You want a general midrange option from any generation you pick, dont sacrifice one aspect of a processor for another, thats how intel are getting people to buy 900mhz processors in 2017, because "they work". 1) Your GPU choice will moreso assist your processor than your processor will assist your GPU. SL is CPU bound, you dont need anything too crazy graphically to just get it running smoothly, it depends on what settings you want to run at. I run low/medium settings in 1080p or medium/high in a windowed ~720p sort of thing, and i use a Quadro FX 4600, a high GPU from 2007. You wont have to worry about bottlenecking or performance across generations when talking about a laptop, since any laptop is going to come with its respective era of graphics. Youre not going to find a first gen i5 with a mobile GTX 1080, in the same sense you wont find an 8th gen i5 with a GT 210m. 2) A dedicated GPU in a laptop will generally outperform any integrated graphics, that does depend on whats in there, but i dont think any laptop with dedicated graphics is going to come with something weaker than the integrated graphics. 3) The whole "AMD < Nvidia" thing is a literal decade+ old misconception. It comes from a time when Nvidia was making mobile gaming hardware, and AMD/ATI was making mobile display adapters, 2003-2008 or so if you had an "ATI laptop" you had a basic laptop that came with a dedicated GPU option that wasnt meant for anything more than regular use, AMD just wasnt doing much of the gaming side of things for mobile devices. Nvidia was the one doing that. AMD uses directX and openGL the same as Nvidia does. In 2017 the AMD/Nvidia thing shouldnt be a concern, look into the general performance you want over anything. On desktop hardware, an AMD RX 580 and a Nvidia GTX 1060 will perform about the same, in SL or otherwise. For both graphics card and processors, look into benchmark performance metrics, sites like Passmark or Userbenchmark that have benchmarks for everything, where you can compare processors, GPU's, ram, etc all in a common points based system. It depends on how heavily you multitask and what viewer you use with how much extra stuff you got going on in it. The regular LL viewer takes 1-1.5gb of ram for me, and my multitasking consists of a web browser open for music and facebook, sometimes discord is open. So my total memory usage is around 4gb including the operating system overhead. 8gb is fine for me. Now if you used firestorm with a lot of stuff going on, that viewer can use 6gb on its own, meaning your OS + firestorm + anything else is going to easily max out 8gb of ram. You'd want 12/16gb. The performance of other components will not reduce ram usage, you need a certain amount of ram for the things you do. Pairing a high end processor and high end GPU wont make it so you can run things on a small amount of ram. Screen resolution is important when it comes to your choice of GPU. Higher resolution = more demanding on your graphics card. You also gotta know how to translate some semi obscure resolutions into 720p/1080p/1440p. Generally resolution is shortnamed for its vertical pixel count, 1080p is 1920 width by 1080 height. 720p is 1280x720, 480p is 600x480, 1440p is 2160x1440, 4k is a weird outlier since its actually 3940x2160. The higher the resolution, the more work your GPU has to do per frame, the more video memory you may need. Most laptops come in 1366x768 or something like that, thats a bit over 720p. For 720p you dont need much, honestly at that point recent intel integrated graphics would be ok, for 1080p you want a modern midrange GPU like a GTX 1050 or one of the 940MX's that are still being shipped in new laptops for some reason even though the 940mx is old as hell now. An MX150 is essentially a mobile GT 1030 which is fine for light 1080p gaming or decent settings in 720p. Youre not going to find too many AMD dedicated GPU options outside of workstations and apple hardware right now. They would have their standard radeon names like RX 540 or whatever. My general suggestion for a modern laptop for SL would be something like this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=1TS-001A-005J6 Its an i5 7300HQ, 8gb of ram, 2gb GTX 1050, comes with an SSD, 1080p display and all that, its around 800 bucks but for the price its decent. I think its one of the best all-rounders for performance without going into "gaming" machine territory.

Alright, so an update on this, i basically just went all out to build a 2007 workstation, Core2Quad Q6600, 8gb of DDR2, FX 4600, ive actually got a bunch of 160gb drives for this but im waiting on sata cables. Using my SSD from my athlon box with 8.1 on it, updated drivers, here we are. Its surprisingly not that bad at all, note that with the Athlon 5350 on its own was "ok" at best. It was running fairly low settings and not in fullscreen 1080p. This quadro FX 4600 on the other hand paired with the Q6600 is perfectly capable of 1080p to achieve a kinda meh result of 15-20fps in social island with a bunch of people around. I mean its not bad, its not great though. Its very playable, and reducing my screen size back to its normal little window i played in before bumps that up to 40fps on average with the same settings. The difference is that it seems to perform about the same anywhere i went, more crowded spaces, less optimized player owned spaces, id still get around 15fps. So theres a GPU bottleneck in play but its not that severe, it means the usual CPU bottleneck everyone else, including me with that athon, ran into is no longer present with even just this Q6600. So tl;dr, 2007 era hardware, totally capable of SL. Just, you need the high end stuff, no Core Solo laptops lol.

Its the FX 8350, SL is very single threaded and weak single core performance really takes it toll on the games framerate, the 8350 may have 8 cores, and its a great processor for things that actually use all 8 cores, but it has a very, very low single thread rating. And thats where performance is being killed. My Athlon 5350 and integrated graphics get me ~30fps in places like Social Islands on general medium settings in 1080p, i use to have a 750ti in the system and while i could raise the settings a bit more, it didnt actually benefit framerate at all. A Pentium G3260, a haswell dual core, outperforms the 8350 single threaded score by a LOT, and something like this would play SL fantastically. Its the slightly higher clocked cousin to the G3258, which was infamous for being an unlocked processor that could be overclocked. Thats your bottleneck with a game like SL. My Athlon 5350 with its 750ti was having all its cores utilized and managed 45-50fps on normal settings in GTA V in 1080p, but thats not a metric for how SL performs, theyre very different games in how theyre designed and how they run. My Athlon 5350 never has more than 1 core used, and its weak single core speed is what kills performance. Same goes for your 8350. My suggestion? If you want better performance you need to do a CPU upgrade, AM3 is dead end and all the options there are basically the same cores with higher numbers, you could slap an FX 9590 into there (if your motherboard can handle 220w tdp) and it wouldnt give even a slight performance boost in SL because of the similarly weak single thread speed. Look into moving up to something more modern, i suggest a recent i5 or something, currently AM4 processors have much better single thread speed and dont require "just add moar coars" like the FX series did. Maybe something like an i5 6500 or a Ryzen 3 1300 to pair with a 1050ti.

It wont start newer SL on any viewer, SL requires DirectX 9 even on the legacy viewer, no configuration for that Laptop supports higher than DirectX 8.1. So an actual old viewer from before the DX9 requirement will start, as you said you got a very old viewer to run, but if you want any modern features you need a modern viewer. And even then the specs of the laptop wont give you any decent performance at all, even when it was new that machine was not meant for things like Secondlife. The Athlon XPm versions were designed for media, like movies and music and not much more, the Pentium 4-M models with the nvidia dedicated GPU were about the same. The oldest thing i can get SL to run "playable" on is a Core2duo e6700 and a GT 710 (gt 710 being comparable to an 8800GT circa 2007) , basically a 2007 mid tier gaming computer. Anything older than that was either too old to start SL due to lacking the base requirements to run the client, such as the above mentioned lack of DirectX 9, or the specs in general were just too weak, even high end from 2005-2006 wont start SL anymore, single core Banias Pentium M's and Northwood P4's cant do it. If you just want to chat and interact, you can try using Radeghast, which is a text only viewer that allows a decent bit of functionality, though its kind of buggy on Windows XP and you may need to install Vista or 7 to get some of the features to work. I use that regularly on my Thinkpad G40 with a 2.8ghz Pentium 4, 1gb of ram, Intel Extreme Graphics 2 and Windows XP. I suggest just getting a new computer, anything dual core or higher from the last 3 years or so even with integrated graphics will handle SL, maybe not fantastically but it will work on a budget.

Card arrived, gonna have to go ahead and start working on building a 2007 era workstation, because this card will not fit in my case. Rookie mistake, rip. Probably should've googled the card length, knowing i have a small case.

Your best course of action to upgrade your PC instead of downgrade your viewer. Your performance overall with a viewer change wont be very drastic and probably wont give you much of a better experience if your hardware just isnt up to the task. If you have a more specific model name for your computer, or the full list of specs from a program like Speccy, i can suggest some options for upgrading or if it would even be worth upgrading at all.

A blue screen can be a large variety of things ranging from driver crashes to hardware overheating. If it happens again write down the error code it gives and look it up online, you should be given an exact reason as to why the blue screen happened.

Im just wondering, ive heard before that workstation cards can actually benefit over their gaming counterparts in some specific games and obviously professional applications. Maybe SL would do decently on it since SL is laid out more like a 3D workspace than an optimized game. And i once ran SL on a core2duo e6700 and a GT 710, and this thing is better than a 710 by a little bit so i think it will perform ok-ish. Still probably not going to be pushing 10fps in crowded sims but if my 5350 on its own with the R3 8400 graphics can do 30fps in places like Social Island then this quadro should be good. I think the downside is the 10$ you save over just buying a GT 710 comes in the form of the card being ~140w, compared to a GT 710 at 19w. Looking into it more it seems to actually be closer to an 8800 GTS, not a GTX. Which isnt a massive difference but i might try and borrow a friends GTS from his "retro" windows XP gaming machine to see what the difference is. https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-8800-gts/specifications Whats blowing my mind though, is that the FX 4600 was once a 2000$ card. http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_fx_5600_4600.html And i got mine for uh, well pic related, though there are some even cheaper, just that this one has a better rated seller than a few others i found. And compared to 8800 GTS's theyre actually about 8-10$ cheaper as well. Maybe if all goes well this could be some insight into people looking to make their own overkill 2007 gaming computers as a hobby.

So im looking into rebuilding a budget workstation, as ive gotten back into hobbyist 3D modelling again. Problem is my Athlon 5350 just isnt up to the task for some of it. So i need a GPU. On ebay i found that Quadro FX 4600's from 2007 are being sold for ~15$ in grade A condition. And yes i know a quadro from 2007 is a bad choice, but considering its performance, the price is really good. Even if spending 20$ more would get me a lot more. Online it seems to be a 8800 GTX but with a different memory configuration. Looking up some performance benchmarks it definitely outclasses the integrated R3 8400 graphics on the athlon, so there will be an improvement. But im wondering exactly how a workstation GPU would benefit a game like SecondLife, being a oddly mesh intensive game, im thinking something like a workstation card would give a benefit over similar performing "gaming" cards such as the GT 720 which is a more modern card on par with it. Anyone here run older quadro/firepro cards with their respective workstation drivers? Does it give any noticeable performance increase for SL?

Yeah, that i5 option will suit SL way better, as the i5 7400 has much better single threaded performance than the A8 Series AMD APU's. SL greatly benefits from better single thread speed. Next to no pre built options are going to give you specifications for the power supply because 99% of consumers dont care, it is fairly important for a variety of reasons, a cheap power supply is made with low quality components that may fail, and when a power supply fails it goes out extravagantly, usually taking other components with it, possibly starting a fire (though thats extremely rare nowadays). Theyre also just less efficient, put out a lot of heat and noise, and theyre usually the bare minimum for what the components in the system require, making future upgrades a pain. Also note that, in case you wanted to, that machine is only technically "VR ready", as in it will probably start a VR game. Its not going to be enjoyable in the slightest since a GTX 1050 would not be able to push beyond 60fps in any virtual reality game, which would make motion sickness a huge issue. Looking it up though, note that it is extremely expensive for the hardware you're actually getting. I see the page online for the same model and its ~850 Euros, which is insane for a locked i5 and a regular GTX 1050. If you would want to do it yourself, or know someone who does PC building, you can get a system with the same components made for much cheaper if you bought individual parts. Example, i5 7400 system with a GTX 1050, 8gb of ram and a 1TB HDD in a decent case with a quality power supply costs about 630$ or 600 Euros (converting to part costs in the EU). https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dz7sRG Including Windows 10 at that.

I dont speak spanish so these translations are up to the whims of google. Entonces el problema aquí es que si dices "chipset de la serie Intel 4", es posible que solo tengas una computadora portátil desactualizada que no tenga una segunda vida. Intel tiene actualizaciones de hasta Windows XP de 64 bits y Windows 7 de 32 bits. Si la computadora portátil de su novia está ejecutando gráficos tan antiguos, no podrán jugar una segunda vida. Está por debajo de los requisitos mínimos. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/81507/graphics-drivers/legacy-graphics/graphics-drivers-for-mobile-intel-4-series-express-chipset-family.html Si no te importa, ¿puedes ejecutar este programa "speccy" por piriform y publicar una imagen de la información del sistema? https://www.piriform.com/speccy

-Weak graphics card -unoptimized high detail objects -Running on extremely high settings I mean, those are your problems there. Your PC isnt up to the task of running a viewer showing that many complex mesh items. A GPU upgrade would probably help, as a GT 630 is a very weak card but would run SL fine otherwise. But if you want high detail with lots of mesh you're gonna need a little bit more than what the GT 630 has to offer.

You're on a ULV mobile dual core with haswell integrated graphics, id be amazed if SL loaded at all beyond bare minimum settings. Really theres nothing you can tweak or change to make it more playable or perform better. And the Pentium 3556U is soldered, so theres no CPU upgrade potential, and no laptop that i know of uses that chip and has dedicated graphics or any option or dedicated graphics. You could do an eGPU sort of thing but then its a matter of doing a semi complex upgrade and spending 100$ on a PSU and riser alone, not to mention buying a GPU even on the low end, to get minimal performance gains. If you're looking for a better experience, its probably time to do a general upgrade to a newer computer.

Anything with more than 2 cores really, a decent mid tier GPU with enough video memory to share. Pretty much any decent quadcore from even a few generations back + any mid tier GPU from a few generations back and newer will run multiple instances of SL. Though for firestorm you want a bare minimum of 8gb of ram, since FS can use 2-3gb per instance. So older stuff, something like an intel i5 2500, GTX 750ti, 8gb of ram. Or newer stuff, something like a Ryzen 3 1200, 1050ti, 8gb of ram (or more, in 2017 16gb isnt uncommon) The key point here is CPU cores and single threaded performance. Something like an FX 8350, although its an 8 core processor, has kind of weak single threaded performance so it would be overshadowed by something like an i5 4460, with much better single threaded performance. The best hardware for SL overall really just comes down to single threaded performance, since the big killer with SL performance is the physics rendering, which doesnt really take advantage of multiple cores that well. You might notice on here that a lot of users are hitting a performance ceiling of sorts, where it doesnt matter how good your processor is for other things, it wont get better for SL. Someone with a top of the line i7 7700k and dual GTX 1080ti's, 32gb of ram, SL on an SSD and all that, might end up seeing the same framerates as someone with a mediocre build of an i5 2500k, a single GTX 770 and 8gb of ram on a 7200rpm HDD.

Its not too bad at all, honestly even with the integrated R3 graphics it runs SL fine, though i do drop ALM and lower my AA down. But its smooth still in the majority of places. Like, its not great, its not on par with people with decent intel i series stuff, but its very playable and still looks good. I wouldnt buy anything Coffee Lake, its a dead end platform with next to no upgrade path. If you're a heavy multitasker than the better multi threaded performance of Ryzen stuff would favor you much better, and AM4 is supposedly supported for a second generation of Zen2 chips as well. GTA V will have no problem with literally any modern AMD processor, heres a Ryzen 3 1200 + GTX 1050 holding over 60fps on max settings. Dont forget, the game is from 2013. There are benchmarks from back in the FX era, and FX series processors were complete garbage from AMD. Ryzen is much more on the same bar as intel.

You'll find the aesthetic that you like, you just gotta spend some time searching for it. It can take a while if youre kinda picky like i am. Being degenerate furry trash, i got a lot of options for avatars, but as ive been playing i have entirely gravitated to one single avatar maker, since a lot of the other large name creators im really just not a fan of from a design aspect. You either got extremely detailed stuff or very basic stuff. I like the stuff where its not heavy with the realism but not cartoony, kind of like an "average" of sorts. Nothing flashy, nothing complex. As you look around more you'll find the kind of avatar you like in the style you like, and you can find accessories for it in a similar style. The reason theres so much variation is that its all user created content, in the same sense that artists have a unique style, those who create content for SL are also artists with unique styles. They make avatars, clothing, furniture, accessories, etc in their own way. Which means some people are going to have flat colored meshes, some are going to have ultra high resolution textures, some are going to be polygonal in how they create complex surfaces, some are going to have like 40k triangles, some people like bright and noticeable colors, others like muted, realistic colors. Really in the end you kind of just have to accept that SL has its limitations, and that things come down to user preference. I still see people sometimes with their system avatars from a decade ago. And ive seen others with hyper realistic avatars.

Also, off topic, this image is absolutely hilarious and im setting it as my wallpaper, tiled