MarissaOrloff

Have you done a cache clear? That doesn't get cleared on a fresh install.

Wow, ive used my Note 20 Ultra hotspot on 5G many times for SL. It probably has more to do with your mobile network and the plan you are on than the phone itself. I have a 120GB hotspot plan with Sprint/T-Mobile.

Thanks Steve!

I do understand you Henri. It's a New Branch Release but luckily I have not had any of those issues.

Unless you have a g-sync compatible monitor where 470.74 and 470.82 will result in a black screen. Fixed in 495.44 and 470.86

15,000 Ktris/frame is a lot of triangles to push! A computer can only process so many triangles per second. The faster cpu/gpu the more triangles it can process each frame thus more fps. The more barren an area is with say only 1,000 Ktris/fr your fps will scale upwards accordingly. A high ping time will make interactions seem like you are stuck in mud but little you can do about that. So, to rehash what people have said since the beginning of Linden time... Lower your graphics quality to one above low. Lower your max# of non-impostor avatars to 4 (or wherever you feel it looks best to performance). And of course, lower your draw distance. Start at 32 and then inch upwards to your desired quality to performance sweet spot is. The sim that you are in looks like it is performing beautifully. Negligible physics and simulation time with available spare time which is rare to have. As LL keeps moving simulators to better hardware those numbers mean less and less. Back in the "old days" just a few Sion chickens would be enough to bring the best performing region to a crawl.

I would disagree with Jenna. The brand new 12th gen Intel CPU's have much better performance than Ryzen right now (I do have a 5900x right now and it is incredible!). However they are mostly sold out right now and you may have to wait a bit before they become available in both pre-built computers and off the shelf. Look at the tech channels on youtube such as Linus Tech Tips, Jayz2cents and Gamers Nexus for reviews and benchmark results. Ryzen 6000 series cpus will be available in early 2022 and lets see if they leapfrog over Intel causing a performance war between the two companies which will benefit the consumer greatly. Stay away from 11th gen Intel as they have been called by Gamers Nexus as "An incredible waste of sand (silicon)". They were designed to go on Intel's 10nm process but that was not ready and so they had to be squeezed into their 14nm process causing performance problems and core reductions. In some cases 10th gen cpus outperformed 11th gen. However... Intel will probably slash prices on 11th gen to get rid of existing stock now that 12th gen has been released and 11th gen may become favorable because of price. There are shortages right now so that the favorable price zone will have a short time frame. Ryzen 5000 cpus do still hold an advantage in gaming on Linux over 12th gen intel most likely because Intel's optimized scheduler is not in the current kernel. Maybe we will see that in kernel 5.16 or 5.17. But if you use Windows that is a "who cares" and not important to you.

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I think Roman Paganism will return to the western nations as the dominant religion before Apple takes gaming seriously

I have a high end machine as well (5900x and RTX 3080). From the comparable benchmarks that i've seen online even the high end M1Max is a minor league player compared to that. It's much better than the utter garbage they had before but it's still not good enough. No one is ever going to choose a Mac strictly for gaming just like no one would choose a Threadripper or Xeon. For CPU bound tasks the M1Max is incredible, but for gaming no. If Apple really wanted to get into the gaming market they would. They certainly have the resources but they have always treated gaming like a red headed stepchild. You can game on it when your work day is over but its not what its made for.

Gaming has never been a focus for Apple. It has always taken a back seat with the exception to iOS where they take a 30% cut of all sales. Their focus is on media content creation. That is where they shine. Maybe as they improve their Arm SoC's things will get better but as of right now they are many many years behind NVIDIA and AMD. As far as for the "cloud" all LL did was move their data center from being self hosted in Arizona to being hosted by Amazon Web Services. That doesn't change they way any client will function.

Mac support is not going away!

It's not cost effective. Why double your costs writing two engines for just a fraction of the residents? It's much easier and cost effective to maintain one code base. Even "if" they did a separate Metal version it would just be a port of the Vulkan Windows version so you have a translation anyways. However, Vulkan performs quite well on Macs. Not as good as Windows and Linux but almost as good. I have a 6 yr old iMac as well I use from time to time and it sucks. Maybe Apple will get their head out of their ass and officially support Vulkan someday. Till then, MoltenVK is the way to go.

I have a RTX-3080 (Praise be to the Gods for finding an available one) but in Ultra it is quite common to use around 5-6GB of vram (taking 8k photos in ultra with shadow complexity at 4 and LOD at 4 will use 100% of vram and if the scene is too detailed it will crash the viewer). For just running around in SL it is as smooth as butter. No client lag whatsoever even at a crowded event in Ultra. If you are looking for a new card find the best one that you can both afford and is available. Available being the key word. It's a sellers market right now and prices can be double MSRP or more. Even used cards are selling for more than what they were originally purchased for. Availability will not be fixed until sometime in 2023. If you are lucky enough to live near a Micro Center in the US they "might" have a small handful of AMD cards (low end 6600 and extreme high end 6900xt but no mid tier) and NVidia Quadro cards (you don't want a Quadro for just playing SL). Best of luck in your search!

You can put the cache anywhere and it will not make a difference unless you are putting it on a slower disk (i.e. You have a sata ssd or nvme primary disk and you moved your cache to a 5400rpm mechanical disk). For best results with cache use a ramdisk but beware a ramdisk will delete the contents after each boot (since it uses ram) so you would have to reload your cache unless you instruct the ramdisk to save to a file then reload from that file on startup.

They will never do that. Most likely for Macs MoltenVK will be used to map Vulkan to Metal.

***C:\users\$Windows_Login_Name\AppData (this directory is hidden, see link below)\Roaming\Firestorm_x64 There you will see your avatars name as a folder. Copy that directory and place it in the same place as your old machine.*** The logs file is something different. The folder you need to grab is the one with your avatar name. Edit: This is from Linux so /home/marissa/Win10WD/Users/Marissa/AppData/Roaming/Firestorm_x64/ = C:\Users\Marissa\AppData\Roaming\Firestorm_x64/ in Windows

A ten year old Xeon server cpu is not even going to come close to actual usability for SL. Your memory is slow, either DDR3-800 or 1066. Plus, you're running a non supported version of Windows. It's time for a hardware upgrade.

Firestorm is not "screwed up" in any way. It performs beautifully. If you want that old school look to give you that "old pleasure" try Henri's "Cool VL Viewer". It's like taking a trip back to 2010 and before with a V1 interface. Great performance on that viewer as well.

It's more like you are leasing it until whatever blockchain it's listed on goes belly up.

Didn't say how realistic it would be!!! Just how to get better performance

The best performance uplift in FPS you can give yourself is to use the Linux viewer. I also had about a 10% increase in FPS enabling Resizable Bar (NVidia RTX-3000 series only) in bios.

Even with Tails there is no privacy. They may not know who you are exactly but you have certainly been fingerprinted by each website you go to. Then its just a complex and time consuming task of connecting the dots to matching fingerprints to where you made a mistake with your privacy.

I have no issues connecting to SL via NordVPN or ExpressVPN. Just for giggles awhile back I did try to connect to SL with Tails OS and it did not allow the connection to go through Tor. Is TorGuard routing through Tor? If so that could be your issue.

If you are only going to be using one computer (I will assume windows. Linux and Mac have different directory paths) go to the following directory C:\users\$Windows_Login_Name\AppData (this directory is hidden, see link below)\Roaming\Firestorm_x64 There you will see your avatars name as a folder. Copy that directory and place it in the same place as your old machine. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files-0320fe58-0117-fd59-6851-9b7f9840fdb2 You can also change the chat log directory to one of your liking so Firestorm, Singularity or any other viewer will share the same files Avatar > Preferences > Network and Files > Directories > Conversation Log and Transcripts (for FS, other viewers will have something similar)