[Firestorm: Hardware Resources Sitting Idle]

There’s no reason to have water reflections set to everything at a shopping event. Switch it to none (opaque). I’d kick shadows down to either none, or sun & moon. 

[Viewer Performance Improvements]

20 hours ago, Flea Yatsenko said:

Thanks for the test, but do you have vsync enabled? It's really odd for the fps to stop at 60fps unless vsync is enabled, you might get better FPS if you have it enabled and you turn it off.

There appears to be a frame limiting function unrelated to vsync. In my home I get constant 60fps, in the skybox 505 meters up it jumps to a constant 75fps both without vsync, and it’s usually much higher in both locations.

[Firestorm: Freezing / Not Responding for like 5-10 seconds at a time]

15 minutes ago, Nick0678 said:

Hmmm.. i dont want to be the one who will ruin any wet dreams about the other viewers but dont expect to conveniently"fly" your plane, while having your graphics settings set on ULTRA.

True, but with shadows, particles and water reflections off, it’s not really ultra anymore. That slider is not super helpful.

[Firestorm: Freezing / Not Responding for like 5-10 seconds at a time]

You may want to take a look at the Linden performance improvement projects viewer: https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer.html

In your graphics hardware settings try changing:

Check anisotropic filtering, enable streamed VBOs and enable lossy texture compression. Lower the minimum viewer texture buffer memory to 2048MB. 

[Viewer Performance Improvements]

10 hours ago, KjartanEno said:

Does the Performance Project viewer give similar improvement by changing water to opaque in this location?

On my Lenovo E30, Core i7 2600, Quadro K2200 and the Dec. 17th performance viewer I'm getting ~38fps no matter what the water reflection setting is at that spot after all the textures load.

[What are you listening to?]

 

[Viewer Performance Improvements]

On 1/19/2022 at 2:04 PM, KjartanEno said:

I have to wonder if that is really so? You might be right, but then again...

Yes it is faster. How much faster depends on the situation. One of the improvements is the water reflections. With no water in the viewer’s draw distance, the difference between opaque and everything is about 1%.

[that old question about specs and performance]

I'll go with everyone else and say double up on the memory. CPU and GPU are fine.

If LL follows through with the performance improvement viewer, that setup shouldn't have any problems anywhere.

 

[Safehubs and Infohubs - Haven of bots?]

Bring voice back to the hubs! 

[Safehubs and Infohubs - Haven of bots?]

18 minutes ago, Mr Incognito said:

(Not sure why people don't use their own land or a abandoned parcel for parking accounts)

Can anything be done?

I think they do, but if that region goes offline and isn't back up when the bot tries to login, it gets shuffled to a hub automatically. Restarting the infohub might kick them back to where they're supposed to be. I don't know if residents can request a region restart for a hub, or maybe LL could schedule more restarts for them.

[What are you watching today?]

 

[What are you watching today?]

 

[Does anyone know how to prevent textures from constantly reloading/blurring in-and-out? (Default Viewer)]

You have texture compression enabled? It’s your friend, probably your only friend in this situation.

[Is It Possible That The Official Second Life Viewer And/Or Third Party Viewers Use Users Personal Computers to Mine Cryptocurrency?]

We’ll just redirect some of those GPU resources to crypto-mining, I’m sure no one will notice.

[Firestorm voice not working Mac OS Monterey]

50 minutes ago, ItHadToComeToThis said:

Further interesting note. Installing the official viewer gives you the message that the app needs updating otherwise it won't work with future versions of Mac OS.

I think that may be related to the impending doom of Python 2.7.

[What are you watching today?]

 

[Firestorm voice not working Mac OS Monterey]

Do you have the iCloud Private Relay on?

[Should Any Second Life User Be Allowed To Continue To See Another User's Camera Beacon Location - Privacy Issue?]

4 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

There are all kinds of perverts in SL, so for this discussion I'm defining Cam-Pervert as those who enjoy looking at other avatars for salacious reasons, assuming those avatars don't know they're being looked at. 

Show look at has the unfortunate effect of letting you know exactly how many people are not looking at your avatar for salacious reasons. 

[Why do I choose Second Life over Meta?]

2 hours ago, Maryanne Solo said:

I await..... the first ever captured fart NFT.
It's coming.... surely. 🤔

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-star-who-sells-her-farts-in-jars-starts-selling-1848305521

[Should Any Second Life User Be Allowed To Continue To See Another User's Camera Beacon Location - Privacy Issue?]

33 minutes ago, Mollymews said:

next time it happens Paulsien then say back something like:

“Hey babe, ditch the zero and get with the hero!”. Seriously, “stop targeting me” might as well be “please troll the ***** out of me”.

32 minutes ago, Innula Zenovka said:

I must have misremembered.  I could have sworn there was an ongoing argument going on in SLU with one of the FS devs about that feature, and she posted about removing it, giving that reason.   I can't look it up now because SLU's closed and Cristiano can't get the archives back.   It must have been 9 or 10 years ago, so I can't really remember.

There was a kerfuffle about showing what viewer other people were using way back when. People would be using it to evangelize for their favorite viewer and LL finally did ban that.

[Should Second Life Teleport Links Be Secured HTTPS vs Currently HTTP]

15 hours ago, Paulsian said:

Wondering why when copying any location's url (from the second life map) and pasting it into the chat box it does not show the unsecure link but instead makes an innocent looking hyperlink with the second life logo giving the sense of security, however, when urls are pasted into this forum or anywhere else it displays as an unsecured link.

Are you sure it's actually using http instead of https? When you copy & paste a link, it shows http:// but if you click it, you're taken to an https:// address.

[I only play second life.]

5 hours ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:

He's from the UK.. Buncha mushmouthed people. Not at all like Americans. We all speak eloquently and clearly. Especially those in the deep south that the news crews always seem to find after a hurricane or tornado hits. 

 

[Why Can't You Save Notecards Off-line?]

1 hour ago, Prokofy Neva said:

No, I'm not going to use the Firestorm editor.

And when you go into edit on the regular SL viewer, you get this message:

And then what? Where do you go? What do you do? This may seem obvious or intuitive to you, but it isn't to me, and therefore it becomes a hobble.

If the system can save your chat automatically to your hard drive, why can't it save a notecard with just text automatically?

 

This is exactly why I didn’t mention it two days ago.

[Why Can't You Save Notecards Off-line?]

54 minutes ago, Odaks said:

 

@Prokofy Neva, do I remember correctly that you don't like to use Firestorm? Forgive me if I'm wrong. I don't know if other viewers present this "Edit" option.

The Linden viewer does, but you have to tell it what editor to use the first time you press edit.

[What are you listening to?]