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MarissaOrloff

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  1. https://support.secondlife.com/ click phone support on the right hand side. If you are using an alt to access support you will only be able to submit a ticket until your main is restored. Unless of course you paid for premium plus on your alt as well. Premium Plus phone support is available daily from 9am to 5pm EST (6am to 2pm PST) every day. I do believe if you are looking outside of that time the phone support link will go away.
  2. The 9900k is 5 generations old now. Of course something modern is going to perform better.
  3. FPS is always going to be different from one computer/user to another. There are just too many variables to take into consideration (region objects, your avatar, other avatars, cpu, gpu, atmosphere, graphics settings, ect). If those settings remain static from one machine to another for that user you can take the delta and apply it (sort of) as a loose guide in terms of a percentage. You may say you have fps of X and then someone else might say they have fps of 2X with lesser hardware with both statements being valid.
  4. There can be many reasons for that. Most common is the application is muted in your Audio System Settings. Try Henri's CoolVL viewer for Linux though and see if that helps.
  5. I have been using Nvidia with Linux since 2009 and I have never experienced anything that you have described. The only issues I have had with Nvidia is that sometimes nvidia-dkms will skip over a new kernel I have compiled requiring me to reinstall nvidia-dkms (a 30 second fix if that) to resolve the issue. From what you were saying at the beginning, sloppy programming is sloppy programming. It makes zero difference if it's open source or proprietary. If the programmer is releasing bad code it's going to behave badly.
  6. Here are some quick benchmarks comparing OpenGL performance (not for Blender of course) in Linux and Windows using Valley (I'm not running Windows 8, Valley is just that old! ), Superposition and Blender Benchmark. I ran Superposition 3 times in Windows but the result is so far off (almost half of the Linux result) I don't trust it. I also included an old 7900xtx Superposition Linux benchmark for comparison.
  7. If you are not doing ray traced AAA gaming, OpenGL or GPU compute tasks (blender, hardware video encodes) the 7900xtx is a good value and will perform similar to a 4080/4090 at better pricing. Ray Tracing, OpenGL and GPU Compute Nvidia is far ahead of AMD. I'm not saying the 7900xtx is a bad card but just pointing out the differences.
  8. Recently I have owned a RTX-3080, 7900XTX and RTX-4090. The 7900xtx is a great card for vulkan and direct x. OpenGL which you need of Second Life, it is the worst of the three performance wise (for SL). It is stable, but if SL is your primary focus for your computer you are much better served with Nvidia. In opengl the 7900xtx was 20% less in fps vs the 3080 and 40% less than the 4090 (I'm using a 5900x so with a current gen 13900k or 7900x it will do much better in SL).
  9. It looks like the aspect ratio is set to 4:3 in fullscreen. There is a debug setting of FullScreenAspectRatio but that is a decimal value and doesn't seem to change anything. Maybe someone else has a workaround.
  10. Poor people in poor countries do not buy Apple products Gavin. Apple makes products for people with disposable income A.K.A. the wealthy on a world scale. I think what you are trying to quote is the article from February of this year from 9to5mac which lists 2 billion active devices. That article also breaks down the number of products per Apple customer. Only 19% of Apple customers own one Apple product with almost 60% of Apple customers owning three or more. If you would like me to link that I certainly will.
  11. I bought a 7900xtx which absolutely phenomenal in everything except OpenGL (it was a downgrade from what I had in opengl) so I returned it for a 4090 which is well, absolutely amazing (but I did have to buy a new motherboard and case to fit the darn thing)
  12. Now you are talking about iOS software not hardware. You can apply my same formula for people who own both a phone and a tablet which is the norm not the exception. We are down to approximately 450 million again.
  13. Two billion active devices does not equal two billion people. I have three active Apple devices (6700k iMac, M2 Mini and an Iphone X) and two old clunkers that went to the big e-waste pile in the sky (or more likely China and Mongolia). I'm only one person, not five and if I'm an average Apple customer owning 5 devices were are down to 400 million apple customers.
  14. The iGPU in my 16GB M2 Mac Mini "isn't bad" then again its nothing I would use everyday in SL.
  15. "Gaming" laptops will start around $600 for an older model but for something decent you're looking right around $1000 as an entry price point. To get the best help you have to define what "fairly well" means to you. An example is if you want to be completely lag free when playing you're looking at the $4,000 range for a laptop with a RTX-4090. Everything else down from there is a compromise in performance for price.
  16. It took seven years for Apple to kill off Rosetta one. Rosetta 2 will take that amount as well. Some retailers are still trying to clear out the last of the Intel Macs as well. You need a long switchover period. Three years in not enough.
  17. For $699 you are better off buying a laptop for SL. If you are just looking for a toy to play with when you're bored well, why not.
  18. If possible with help from your ISP put one of your computers on your network set to DMZ bypassing the modems internal firewall completely.
  19. I can't remember the last time I had an actual disconnect on teleport. Ive had a couple of failed teleports where I am forced to relog but those are far and few between.
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