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    graphics card

    in Technical

    Posted · Edited by Lyssa Greymoon

    Are these cards name brand from a recognizable manufacturer (MSI, EVGA, Asus etc) or are the generic unbranded? Do they have a VGA connector on them? The presence of that is generally a dead giveaway that the card is a fake. Performance video cards haven't used them in ages. If you're up to taking it apart, you can look at the number on the chip, that'll tell you exactly what it is. What happens is the people making the fake cards take an older card and flash the model of a newer card onto it. The fake card probably has less video memory, so when your computer tries to use more, boom goes the dynamite. If it's a fake you might be able to get it to run by lowering the value for the texture cache in graphics preferences, but there's really no point in that, just get your money back and get a genuine GTX.

     

    How to reduce lag in second life?

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    2 hours ago, RobotXx said:

    well its not network issue cos every other game i play goes super fast. it must be sl or something wrong with it

     

    You described the symptoms consistent with high ping times. The statistics window will give you more information to pinpoint the problems, control-shift-1 brings it up.

     

    How to reduce lag in second life?

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    23 hours ago, RobotXx said:

    almost a month ago I got my new PC, which is much better than the pc i had before. but it feels like its lagging even more for some reason. when i try to move it has delay and then when i stop moving the animation that im moving keeps going for few more seconds...sims and avatars takes time to rez. and when i open SL even my browser gets slow like it makes my internet lagging or my pc...not sure about it. i

    This sounds like a network issue. 

    Ok Sloomer! The Rise and Fall of Second Life Generations

    in General Discussion Forum

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    6 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    1) SLoldbies -- Time Range: 23 June, 2003 (the public opening of Second Life) to 14 March, 2008, the day that Philip Rosedale stepped down as LL CEO.

    Virtual life for SLoldbies must have been wild and exciting. Many of the most important features -- the Linden dollar, direct teleports, and Windlight were, for instance, introduced. The creators and coders of this generation lay the groundwork for literally everything that followed. My own sense of the SLoldbies is that they are, as a species, relatively open-minded. And they tend, I think, to subscribe to what now feels like an older version of digital libertarianism. They aren't 4Chan or Something Awful (most of them) -- but that's the culture from which they come. I really value and like SLoldbies: I find them sceptical, but always helpful.  

    I joined in late 2007 and felt like I missed being part of the real oldbie generation by about a year. The media hype was done, corporate presences were dead and disappearing. Businesses and schools had just figured out they didn’t know what to do with SL. That first three years was an era completely unlike anything that came later.

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    SL Content and YouTube COPPA Compliance

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    “I wanna watch Second Life wedding videos instead of Teen Titans Go!” said no kid ever.

    https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children

    ”To be clear, your content isn’t considered “directed to children” just because some children may see it. However, if your intended audience is kids under 13, you’re covered by COPPA and have to honor the Rule’s requirements.”

    is your intended audience under 13?

    In this case we do know exactly what happened when the government decided to make an example of someone. 

    SL Content and YouTube COPPA Compliance

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    YouTube is covering its butt by telling content creators to identify their own videos as made for kids or not. YouTube and the FTC have guidelines for people who don't know who they are making videos for. The FTC has a very good idea what's on YouTube and what they consider made for kids, that's obvious from the complaint. YouTube was egregiously violating COPPA, and it wasn't because of some grey area videos, or videos of incidental interest to children. Google was explicitly marketing YouTube as the new Saturday morning cartoons, are your videos Saturday morning cartoons? Look at YouTube kids, do you think your videos are going to end up there? If you search YouTube kids for "Second Life" what do you see? Not a whole lot of videos from SL, that's what.

    SL Content and YouTube COPPA Compliance

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    I'm only halfway kidding when I say the presence of the words "Second Life" in a video's title or description should be a strong argument that it is not intended for kids. Most of the YouTube videos on COPPA are just fearmongering clickbait that are based on the assumption that Baby Shark and Fritz the Cat are essentially the same thing and the FTC can't tell the difference. The FTC does know the difference, and we know that from what they've said and the complaint against YouTube. See pp. 10-14 for examples of the content that got YouTube into hot water: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/172_3083_youtube_revised_complaint.pdf . There is no question about the intended audience. These are videos explicitly directed at children.

    After looking at what YouTube and the FTC have to say about it, I set my channel to "No, set this channel as not made for kids. I never upload content that's made for kids.", because it's accurate. 

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    Massive Drop in FPS since BOM updates

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Lyssa Greymoon

    I installed the latest Firestorm and I'm getting 19-20fps at a fairly crowded venue (about 23 other avatars visible):

    Snapshot_016.thumb.png.9cfa7fd1c9c5e62c36c2477608e68d47.png:

    The frame rate in the LL viewer is the same. I don’t see anything obviously wrong with your system report, and your computer is more capable than mine, so maybe some other software is causing problems? 

    Firestorm 6.3.2 (58052) Sep 27 2019 22:41:52 (64bit) (Firestorm-Releasex64) with Havok support
    Release Notes

    You are at 36.0, 207.9, 602.5 in Northfarthing located at sim10311.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.50.33:13014)
    SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Northfarthing/36/208/602
    (global coordinates 144,164.0, 288,464.0, 602.5)
    Second Life Server 2019-11-01T18:02:37.532376
    Release Notes

    CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           W3670  @ 3.20GHz (3200 MHz)
    Memory: 12272 MB
    OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 18363.476)
    Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
    Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2

    Windows Graphics Driver Version: 26.21.14.4108
    OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 441.08

    RestrainedLove API: (disabled)
    libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8 nghttp2/1.25.0
    J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.10.7
    Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.00.03
    Dullahan: 1.1.1320 / CEF: 3.3626.1895.g7001d56 / Chromium: 72.0.3626.121
    LibVLC Version: 2.2.8
    Voice Server Version: Vivox 4.9.0002.30313

    Settings mode: Firestorm
    Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
    Window size: 1920x1057 px
    Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
    Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
    UI Scaling: 1
    Draw distance: 128 m
    Bandwidth: 500 kbit/s
    LOD factor: 2
    Render quality: High-Ultra (6/7)
    Advanced Lighting Model: Yes
    Texture memory: 2048 MB (1)
    VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): 2019-8-11T23:15:29
    Built with MSVC version 1800
    Packets Lost: 0/3,358 (0.0%)
    November 25 2019 18:52:55 SLT

    Last names nearly here - and more. Yay!

    in General Discussion Forum

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    2 hours ago, missyrideout said:

    lol. Right. As soon as I have one, I will cease to care.  So many people in the thread who have last names can't possibly see the appeal for those of us who don't? hi larious 

    I think anyone who has ever used a display name can see the appeal. There’s also the point that the costs makes a display name good enough.

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    Last names nearly here - and more. Yay!

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    47 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

    As far as I know that hasn't been stated officially one way or the other.   The last into we had (quite awhile ago towards the beginning of the year was that the cost would be equal to a few months of premium (this in a Town Hall by Grumpity)  and of course that could also change.    Perhaps someone else remembers some official statement that I have forgotten. I have no need for a name change so this hasn't been high on my radar. 

    I don’t need one, but one did come to mind for a little used alt I have, assuming they actually put that name into the list, which is extremely unlikely, and don’t charge so much as to make a display name good enough. 

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