Aishagain

So I say again, which is the worst, a totalitarian that is habitually secretive, or a totalitarian that is both habitually secretive AND paranoid enough to insist on having total control over what you see and what you do? Neither are good, but that is just life, I guess, and no I am not drawing any parallels, in case you think I am.

I may be naiive but I had always assumed that any search algorithm would operate using the UUID or avatar/account key and that was the only identifier properly linked to the account user/legacy name. Display names are surely just one of many variables linked to that UUID.

I used to think that a world run by Microsoft would be narrow intolerant oligarchy but now I see that a walled orchard world mediated by the Apple corporation would be so safe secure and utterly intolerant that its denizens would probably die from boredom. Probably. But then, what do I know. I am one of the uninitiated who never could afford the ticket into that orchard.

I see the RC channel roll has gone badly again and LL have been cautious and stopped it. These problems are coming a bit to frequently for comfort these days, it seems every other roll is either taking far longer than it should it is being stopped. Firestorm Inworld Support has been inundated with questions about regions being down for 90 minutes or longer again, one user said that SL support was offline, I am guessing that the deluge of calls was acting almost like a DDoS! Let us spare a thought for the techs at LL who are probably going bald trying to fix this!

@Solar Legionand my point is germane to THIS week's thread. I really don't see why folk should have to hunt for last week's post to find information about THIS week's roll. But as you are often keen to point out, Solar, that is just my view. 😉

@Mazidox Linden, it would be good if we could get back to having working links back to the new server versions in these posts in the near future, please.

Yes. No. Just because it is old does most certainly NOT make it bad, or in any way unusable. What makes OpenGL unusable in the eyes of Apple is that Apple did not design it. It is difficult to make Apple users see just how parochial and selfish the Apple Corporation is.

@LeoTheLoyalSince you are adamant that the previous instals gave you no ussues, I could check the Firewall and ant-virus settings you have. It is advised by FS inworld support that you refresh all your AV settings and Firewall permissions for every new installation. It sounds a bit overkill, I know but it does work. https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/antivirus_whitelisting That all being said if it was happening "this past year or so" it is almost certainly your ISP or (less likely) it may be something as simple as your PC or modem now blocking a particular port. Simple yes...easy to fix? I would not know how.

By 'eck time flies...now it's: © 2022 Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Hmm, I just looked and I see: © 2021 Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. And yes I know it is April 1st but it is past noon (at least it is for me).

That is precisely what I was talking about! To be able to correctly render the mesh, your graphic processor needs all of the data. It simply isn't getting it in a timely way, maybe not at all. Your connection simply cannot supply the data stream as required in a consistent manner. This issue is only made worse if several, or perhaps many, others are also sharing your connection.

@Nikita Neumanahh....frankly in your circumstances I am not in the least surprised that your connection to SL keeps dropping. Your WiFi signal is unlikely to be stable enough or strong enough for reliable SL. I assume that connection to the net via a wired connection is not an option? If not I do not think your SL will reliably work. When you stand still the data flow is not high, but on TP or much movement and change of view, the connection needs to be able to transmit a lot of data quite quickly. Transient packet loss, which I am fairly certain you will get, is more than enough to get you turfed out.

@Jhadzia Mfumelook at this link https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/antivirus_whitelisting This might help. There is a related wiki entry that refers to run crashes, https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_run_crash

@Nikita NeumanCould this problem be due to an aggressive Firewall or Antivirus, I wonder. I assume you have allowed the viewer executables ( .exe files) through the firewall and whitelisted it and the associated cache and settings folders? For Firestorm (and by analogy all viewers) has instructions here: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/antivirus_whitelisting

We knew that there'd not be new code on Main Server this week, since there was nothing new for the RC channel last week but there has been no notice as yet and the RC roll is already more than 2 hours gone, I assume there is no new code for the RC channel this week either.....or is there? ETA: well the roll is over and nothing in here so I guess it was just a "bounce" again.

@kevin Jerrold I am seeing a problem even from those limited specifications you published. Running a 64 bit viewer with less than 4GB RAM is unlikely to work. The viewer will try to access a great deal more than 4GB in fairly ordinary operation and it you have ANY other applications running, including but by no means limited to your antivirus application, you will most likely get a "not responding" message from the viewer. The CPU, with integrated graphics is never going to provide you with more than a basic view of SL but it is the low RAM that is killing your viewer(s).

@Jhadzia MfumeI will assume that when you say your settings are reset on login that they reset to the default: It sounds to me as though you are having a "silent crash" on logout. I don't know the best course of action for you, I assume your viewer and its files are "whitelisted" in your system's antivirus and that the viewer .exe file is allowed through your Firewall. All those processes are detailed in the Firestorm wiki and they apply just as well to other viewers.

Reading all this, including some oddly short-sighted comments from those who know better, is disappointing. The spikes in "sim ping" (or as SL Stats would have it ping sim) are directly proportional to the FPS (I'm sure you realise this) since the render time component of the sim ping is inversely proportional to the frame rate the viewer achieves, as Henri points out. I assume that being an experienced user both of PCs and of SL you have taken the obvious (to me) step of ensuring that your Antivirus programme is operating properly and all your viewer executables and folders and files are suitably whitelisted. The artefacts you are seeing point to something periodically mopping up processor capacity on your PC and while you might have whitelisted stuff before some update, whether it be your OS, GPU or antivirus itself might have invalidated those entries. It can't harm to simply whitelist all over again.

Wow. I live in the UK and have absolutely no intention of travelling the Atlantic (certainly not in a yacht) just to go to a yacht show. I cannot think of a much greater waste of resources that that (except possibly spending any longer on a computer refuting your delusions).

I make just one small comment here, @MichaelCorleone Losangeles: You posit a set of circumstances where you see a personal financial gain. You then would insist on Linden Lab changing its ToS to allow it, heedless of the general unfavourable reaction of most users. I have to assume you are one of nature's incorrigeable optimists.

I don't know if the developers of Speedlight have sorted out the inventory issues it causes but unless they have this should be avoided at all costs.

Any chance of a link to the release notes, @Mazidox Linden? Pretty please?

What is your version number? I am pretty sure 6.4.21 is not that old. It was released at the end of July. I must admit that's a lot longer ago than I thought! I believe (hope) that there is an update coming soon.

Forget it. For some reason my browser only showed Mazidox's post just now.