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    What are some more of your pet peeves?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    14 minutes ago, Gatogateau said:

    There is turkey and pie to feed ourselves... and to figure out wtf to be thankful for in 2020.

    I am thankful that this year I am able to celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional fashion of my people. Sitting at my computer, in my underwear with Corona Light and Chinese takeout arguing with other idiots on the internet.

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    If you have a high end PC and low performance check this.

    in Second Life Viewer

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    Well, go ahead and give it your best shot, and explain how it is my fault for why a fan burns out within a year when:

    Chill out, did I say it was your fault?

    I said that's not how power management settings work. You know what mechanical devices all eventually do? They wear out. It doesn't matter how much you baby your computer, the mechanical components will wear out. Some, like your fan, faster than others. Changing the power setting isn't going to radically change that. They will all run the computer within the manufacturer's specifications. The explanation for your crappy fan crapping out short of its rated MTBF is more likely a manufacturing defect in the fan rather than anything you, Windows or Second Life did to it.

    When you crank up SL, it's going to use whatever resources it needs, and changing the power settings is not going to let it push the hardware beyond the manufacturer's limits. You can cap CPU performance at less than 100% in the advanced settings you don't see. What you can't do there is exceed 100%.

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    SL web based viewer

    in Second Life Viewer

    Posted

    For a web based viewer on a low end PC you're either going to have a poor user experience or pay someone to provide the processing power your computer doesn't have. I'm fairly sure LL has kept an eye on streaming solutions and seen how well they do. Maybe one day SL will end up on nVidia's GeForce Now or Google Stadia. You're probably still gonna have to sign up for at least one service, probably two if that happens.

    If you have a high end PC and low performance check this.

    in Second Life Viewer

    Posted · Edited by Lyssa Greymoon

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    Yes, I realize you think it's normal to overload/overclock your computer

    Uh huh. I'll get to this right after this:

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    The reason SL doesn't have a lot of uptake is because it requires more expensive, high end computers and settings like this; it's a boutique.

    See those words under my forum avatar? The computers I run SL on are decidedly not expensive, high end or boutique. Unless your definition of any of those extends to Optiplex bought from thrift store for $20. I don't overclock them and don't recall ever advising anyone else to overclock their computer for SL. I've overclocked some graphics cards, but for very short term evaluation and not for daily use.

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    Changing your settings to increase power usage and not save power does indeed wear out your computer faster. 

    Power management settings doesn't overclock your computer. Overclocking is a non-issue for most users because most computers are built with processors that can't even be overclocked. The power usage will still be within manufacturer's specifications. Plug your PC into a Kill-a-watt and I think you'll find your PC consumes the same amount of power when running SL regardless of what the power management setting is.

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    And taking "minimum requirements" seriously because they are published by the game manufacturer -- instead of guffawing and acting like this is an inside joke that insiders can enjoy while chumps get burned...

    No one here treats them as an inside joke. Every time they come up in discussions they are taken seriously and people are warned that they are over a decade out of date precisely so that "chumps" don't get burned. You can rail against imagined arrogant elitism or you can consider maybe someone who isn't you knows what they're talking about.

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    SL web based viewer

    in Second Life Viewer

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    6 hours ago, subgay said:

    I have invited many people to join SL and all have refused it because they had to download a viewer and they feared it could harm their Pc

    Did you ever get your PC out of safe mode? Their concern may be understandable.

    If you have a high end PC and low performance check this.

    in Second Life Viewer

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    1 hour ago, Solar Legion said:

    Y'all do realize you're responding to a brick wall, right?

    Yep. It's more for people who read this thread and come away thinking they can overclock their PC through power management, and that doing so will burn down their computer. It also gives me another chance to take a shot at the crazy minimum system requirements because they're stupid and wrong. Don't take that list into Best Buy and ask for a computer. They'll all laugh at you.

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    If you have a high end PC and low performance check this.

    in Second Life Viewer

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    2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    A brand-new computer bought at Best Buy with technically the specs listed on page of minimum requirements isn't "a jalopy".

    You can't buy a minimum requirements PC at Best Buy unless your other car is a Tardis. It won't run SL and the whole question on enabling ultimate power mode on it is moot because it won't do that either. A minimum spec PC is closer to graduating high school than getting ready for kindergarten. No modern game will run on that. That's a jalopy.

     

    2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    If the company cannot make software that works on the average Best Buy computer off the rack, they can't grow the user population.

    Second Life will work on every PC and Mac Best Buy sells today. It may suck on most of the ones that cost less than about $500 (which, excluding Macs seems to be about the average price of the in stock computers at my local Best Buy), but it will run and the computer will not burn itself out. Modern computers have thermal protection that will throttle the CPU and GPU before that happens. Running the fans at 6,000 RPM may shorten their life, but if the computer is doing that it probably wasn't designed for gaming in the first place and most modern games will stress the hardware just like SL. Being fit for purpose is a thing.

    4 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    There.com understood this, and understood that women users in particular didn't have the graphic cards needed to play their game. They were expensive, hard to find, etc. So they mailed them out for free. Imagine a company mailing out 20,000 graphic card CDs to users.

    If only Linden Lab knew what they were doing as well as a company who thought mailing out 20,000 graphics cards to people who don't know how to use a screwdriver was a good idea they might go somewhere in the virtual world business.

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    New Apple Silicon

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    That should have Apple's entry level MacBook Air challenging my three year old i7 quad core MacBook Pro.

    The Mac Mini has a fan, the MacBook Air doesn't. Apple has a history of being optimistic about the thermal performance of some of their computers, notably the 2020 Intel MacBook Air, which has a fan and could really use two.

    Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    1 hour ago, Gage Wirefly said:

    Off topic perhaps , but how do we feel about a (hypothetical) mandatory COVID vaccine?

    What I'm concerned about is a half-assed vaccine released under an emergency use authorization. It's not a big deal to me since I'm not in one of the groups that would be anywhere near the first in line for it. By the time it's available for general use I think we'll have a better idea how safe and effective it is. If we aren't up to our ears in dead paramedics next spring, mandatory vaccinations is an idea worth considering. The evidence suggests that leaving public health measures up to individuals has produced sub optimal results.

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    Do you need to vent about things COVID-19?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    1 hour ago, Qie Niangao said:

    What kind of death cult has been running this country?

    The kind of idiots who don't realize how monstrously stupid and immoral achieving herd immunity through infecting everyone is. But that's the kind of thing we should expect from a government whose pandemic response is run by a young earth creationist, a bugchaser and a president who checked out months ago.

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    Texture Thrashing.

    in Technical

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    Leave the Intel graphics on, SL is using your FirePro so having them on should make no difference. In Firestorm go to the graphics settings and in hardware settings enable lossy texture compression and OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects. In the Rendering tab check Restrict maximum texture resolution to 512px.

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