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Just to confirm.... Visage heads have been progressively updated through Bento and BoM. I hadn't updated mine for a while; the BoM issue prompted me to. Thus I updated my "old" Becky Head v 2.4 to the latest Becky Head v 1.0.1 (which is Bento and BoM capable). A re-delivery was all that was required.

My noticeable difference is simply that, where normally the textures pop back simultaneously on returning to the original view, they come back one at a time, bit by bit, as it were. I'm not at all sure that this is the same issue or not. As I said, I'll look harder over the next period.

I've noticed this happening - but not all the time, just now and again. Camming off around a store, for example, and, when returning to the original cam position, you see all the textures re-building themselves. Probably because I've got a pretty good hardware/ ram setup, the textures seem to reload pretty quickly and it hadn't really been that noticable, but it definitely has happened. I'll start taking more notice over the next few weeks. (Firestorm viewer x64 6.3.2.58052)

Thanks @Alwin Alcott, you are right! I used the conversion rate of litres to UK gallons by mistake.

I'm not quite sure what you did there, but neither of us have come close to US$12.50

I looked at that US$12.50/gallon and thought something was fishy about it. I pay £1.33-ish for petrol in my area (rural, and the cost of driving to the nearest supermarket for cheaper fuel doesn't pan out). The average is £1.24, according to the never-reliable-font-of-all-knowledge, the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21238363 - 2019-12-23). I did some simple arithmetic based on my £1.33/litre:- 1 litre = 0.219969 US gallons £1.33 = US$1.76 (today's exchange rate) Therefore, 1 US gallon = 1.76/0.219969 = US$8.00 at UK prices. That's still nastily high, in my opinion, but not as high as US$12.50. Have I made a mistake with my calculations? Please correct me if I have, because splashing silly figures across the internet does nobody any good.

Probably due to making "improvements". My RL experience tells me that "preventative maintenance" is far more destructive though!

Whatever the cause of the circumstances one finds oneself in today, it is always sensible to heed carefully the very wise proverb, "cut your coat according to your cloth". The circumstances of yesterday are irrelevant. Rueful, maybe, but irrelevant. Expecting somebody else to just give you better cloth never seems to play out very well, either.

Ok, now I understand fully what you're asking. I'm not aware of a way to have private voice conversations. As our planet revolves, maybe somebody who does will get out of bed, see this, and post something additional.

Hi Aroid, This page should be what you are looking for:- https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_chat See the section on "How to Start a Conference Chat" EDIT: I've read your question more carefully - its voice, nor chat, that you're asking about. That page does not answer you, sorry! This is the Voice page:- https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_using_voice As far as I know, everyone one in range can hear voice (provided they have voice enabled). I don't use voice in general; maybe someone who does will know more.

My usual mistake with changing preferences is to forget to click OK to exit, and the new settings just don't latch. I usually figure this out when, after relogging and finding nothing has changed, I check the preference settings again, see the unchanged items and realise why! Its easily done, but I guess the OP would have spotted this too, if that was the problem.

Isn't script usage, rather than script count, a better indicator of potential problems? Is it not the case that a single, highly active, script can be more demanding on the server than, say, 100 idle scripts? Should we be monitoring script time, not the total number of scripts?

Everyone would very quickly find out why they've never got time to do anything. What if you could undo all your past mistakes?

You really do need to "travel light" to be able to stand a good chance of crossing region boundaries (sim crossings) successfully. As has been pointed out above, particularly by @Lindal Kidd, the more data that has to be passed from old region to new region, the worse things get. Its easy to forget that your avatar might be quite heavily loaded with scripts (re-sizing scripts, colour changing huds, AOs, "personal" bits and pieces, etc), and these can all be removed. It will help no end! I'll just add this. NEVER, NEVER attempt to cross at the region corners (where four regions meet). Steer well clear of these intersections. Its anyone's guess as to where or how you'll end up!

I had weird things happening 20 - 30 minutes ago. Huds became inoperative, but did eventually work. I've had to bale out for RL reasons. I hope I'll get back in later! (Might just have been a localised sim problem, but you never know these days!)

Last week,Tuesday, I think it was, I had a tp crash. On re-logging, every single scripted item I was wearing, as an attachment or a hud, was broken and would not work. Resetting scripts didn't cure the problems. I had to rez new copies and, in one case, had to get a redelivery. I've never experienced anything like this before.

Its an extraordinarily popular game that gets mysteriously unpopular when your post count reaches 500.

These sort of problems are so often something simple. Frustrating though, isn't it! I'm glad you're under way again. Now all you've got to do is survive the sim crossings!! Bon voyage!

Something else has just come to mind. Depending on your operating system, sometimes other software installed, or your particular keyboard, the Page UP and Page Down keys might have become disabled. Try toggling Num Lock, and/or Scroll Lock(if you have one) if so.

Silly question, but you never know... have you used the page-up key to kick it into a forweard gear? Its a while since I had my Bandit 55 out on the water, and I can't get at the manual at the moment, but I'll bet yours works the same. Additional presses of Page-up will increase the throttle.

That is so beautifully thoughtful of you!

I keep it in the bottom corner of my screen, just the same reason that @Bree Giffendoes. Its also invaluable for finding the friend I've gone in-world shopping with, when we get separated in big stores. I make several uses for the colour options for avatar dots, too. Also, when sailing, its a must. The world map is my chart, and the minimap is my danger-spotter! I wish I could still see region boundaries on the world map when its zoomed out large enough to function as a chart.

They are indeed. I skimmed subsequent posts too quickly - sorry!

Good point. I read the OP's post to mean that FS loads.....then all of a sudden crashes, i.e. there was a period of stability before the crash. It may well have meant differently. I'm sure it would be helpful to clarify:- Does it crash when the login screen appears, or Does it crash on the actual login process, or Does it crash after a period of being logged in? All could point to completely different problems.

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