[What are you watching today?]

 

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

The tiny hesitation before answering the question "do you have the Time Machine backup drive?" that says "i unplugged it to charge my mouse. In 2019."

[Do you like bom? :D]

Yes.

[What are you listening to?]

 

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

 

[Second Life on Apple's New M1 chips]

1 hour ago, CaerolleClaudel said:

Also, when I maximize the FS window, it covers everything else, including it's own system-level toolbar (or perhaps doesn't even have one?), so I cannot minimize it and I cannot access the Dock.

Drag your mouse cursor to the top of the screen and you’ll get the menu bar back, click the green dot to switch back to windowed mode. You can also use ctrl-arrow to switch between desktops while FS is full screen. 

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

3 hours ago, StephiDreamEvermore Doune said:

.if its a pandemic why are we not seeing bodies pile up in the street

You could probably find photos of exactly that by typing india COVID corpses into google. I'd post one of the links but I do t want to get banned.

 

[Latest MacOS will not allow Firestorm to run]

Ctrl-Click should work on Firestorm too, but if it doesn't, go to System Preferences, open Privacy & Security and it should give you a button to open it anyway.

[New Apple Silicon]

Big Sur 11.3 is out of beta and available now. Performance seems much improved.

[windows7]

LL removed Windows 7 from the system requirements when Microsoft ended support. As long as the viewers run, they should be able to login. Maybe someone can offer more help if you add some detail as to what's going on. You should really upgrade to Windows 10 though.

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

 

7 hours ago, Rat Luv said:

Thanks  I'm glad your second shot symptoms were mild. 

I also only got the card...hmm...will ask if they have a sticker too when I get Jab #2!

My card has stickers on it, so I guess that's something.

The side effects weren't bad either. Just a little soreness at the injection spot.

[Can't open new Firestorm version x64 6-4-13-63251]

That's a sketchy sounding prompt. Time for a malware scan.

[A 3070 report and fps :D]

I am very excited to get one of these in about ten years.

[Could use an Opinion on what to think?]

18 minutes ago, Yuumo Ichibara said:

Me: No, but my c**k is.

Creepy Guy:

Nothing sends a straight creepy guy on SL running out of the window faster

I think it's more like 50/50 they either bolt or ask you to use it on them.

[New FS Viewer...6.4.13...Looks Like BLEEEEEEEP!]

There's probably a debug setting for that. I had a similar problem with an AMD card and I don't know what fixed it, it just started working again one day. 

Just a quick look at FS debug settings FSDisableAMDTextureMemoryCheck or FSATIFullTextureMem may have something to do with it. Or you could see if you can set the texture memory manually. The debug setting TextureMemory does that. Maybe as simple as resetting graphics to default settings.

Oh, this is not computer advice, and I deny all knowledge if you ***** up your computer messing with debug settings. 

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

Maybe one day we will solve the deep and enduring mystery of why "experts" are pushing vaccines that are >90% effective instead of vitamins and snake oil.

[Low Frame Rates/Graphic Settings?]

3 hours ago, charlottethegiantess said:

This all sounds really confusing to me but it does sound like the issue seems to be with SL itself. I've dropped the screenshots below of my current settings.

With your current settings you should get very good frame rates with almost anything. This suggests there is something else wrong with your computer setup. I’d run a malware scan first off, then check the performance monitor in task manager to see if something else is going nuts and eating up your computer’s CPU cycles.

Things you should not have to do with a reasonably modern computer with a high performance GPU:

turn off anisotropic filtering or antialiasing, disable transparent water, use a draw distance < 128M.

You should have streamed VBOs enabled, but disabling it won’t tank your frame rate.

[New Apple Silicon]

On 4/2/2021 at 9:29 PM, Jenna Huntsman said:

SL on M1 isn't going to run all that well anyway, as OpenGL was depreciated on MacOS years ago.

ARM and Intel Macs have the same OpenGL support.

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

Well, I'm glad a grown man who doesn't have the math skills of a fifth grader cleared that up and COVID is all gone now because herd immunity.

[New Apple Silicon]

It’s Big Sur 11.2. I got my hands on another MacBook that shipped with 11.1, and SL ran fine on it. Upgraded to 11.2.3 and the frame rate dropped in half. It’s a great laptop,  but crap for SL. Maybe 11.3 will fix that or someone will bring out a universal binary viewer. 

[Low Frame Rates/Graphic Settings?]

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[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

54 minutes ago, Evah Baxton said:

If there is enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone who wants / needs it, will you be afraid of the people who chose not to vaccinate? 

I haven't heard a good reason why I should be worried about others once I am fully vaccinated.

Never getting COVID under control.

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:

People who tout herd immunity before the vaccine yet when the vaccine finally comes around are opposed to it. 

Death cult.

[COVID rants /shares 2.0 thread]

2 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

So a disease that has a 99.82% survivability rate

show math plz.

[Atmospheric shaders, are they needed?]

You don't absolutely need it, but you will probably absolutely want it. Leave it on.