Theresa Tennyson

It sounds like there are two basic possibilities: 1) You are getting not 800 kiloBYTES per second but 800 kiloBITS per second, and you have a not-very-good router. This is what I'd expect to see with DSL. 2) You actually HAVE upgraded your DSL to the point that you actually can GET the 6400 kilobits per second you say you're getting but you have a HORRIBLE router, at least in how it handles multiple HTTP connections.. If you're consistently seeing avatars not having their textures loading that's a connection issue plain and simple. Last night I was at a club with over 40 avatars and my Popular Mechanix sub-2000 kbps cable connection and $69 Wal-Mart cable modem rendered everyone in a few minutes. Turning off HTTP textures may help in the short term but more and more things are moving over to HTTP so you should try to get the problems it sounds like you're having with HTTP textures addressed.

Rudy Schwartzman wrote: Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 CPU: Intel i7 2600K Quad Core w/ HyperThreading; 3.4 GHz RAM: 16 GB Video card: EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 680; PCIe 3.0; 2 GB GDDR5 RAM Internet: DSL; Inbound rate: > 800 KBytes / sec sustained. Rudy, that's just... slow. Sorry. That's a touch faster than when I got my first broadband connection over four years ago and went with the cheapest possible option. I've lived between a rural party store and a cornfield and I had a faster connection there. Right now I live in an apartment complex where the owner apparently reads Popular Mechanix and decided to provide us with free cable internet and my connection's twice as fast here and it still ain't that great. And you probably got a really cheap router with it too. SL viewers using HTTP try to open a lot of connections simultaneously and some routers choke on that.

greek Wingtips wrote: Dear Amethyst, you make rather sweeping statements to which I like you to set the record, you said "No one on the forums has a vested interest in SL unless they are a Linden" is this something you know as a fact or guessing,and please stand corrected I never suspected or said you have or had an vested interest you implied that what I think, big differenced However, in your other thread you did explicitly say you thought Renn Toxx had a vested interest in SL when they disagreed with you.

greek Wingtips wrote: Wikipedia not mine "A key factor to consider with vested interest is the level/type of involvement the individual has with a particular attitude object" Basically, you just said "A key factor to consider with cats is whether they are short-haired or long-haired." Doesn't define cats in the least. Here's the definition of "vested interest." Vested Interest n. 1. Law A right or title, as to present or future possession of an estate, that can be conveyed to another. 2. A fixed right granted to an employee under a pension plan. 3. A special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage. 4. vested interests Those groups that seek to maintain or control an existing system or activity from which they derive private benefit.

Teagan Tobias wrote: I saw the post the other day, it was up and gone rather quickly, it said the money was sent by accident. As I recall there was no mention of product or services, only that the money was transferred accidentally. And now that we know the product or service involved, I have enough experience in that particular field to know that L$25000 is right around ten times the going rate for what I imagine was "exchanged." Sure sounds like somebody accidentally typed in an extra zero, and somebody else didn't want to give up found money.

greek Wingtips wrote: So why does it have to be the ATI driver at fault and not the code that LL write and test,there driver work perfect with all the 100s of software I use only sl, but if you have a vested interest in sl maybe an employee you would say that, Because most of the other 100s of software you use DON'T use OpenGL, the graphics protocol that Second LIfe uses. All indications are that ATI writes their OpenGL drivers by taping a paper lunch bag around a cat's head and having it walk around on a keyboard for a while. ATI is notorious for bad OpenGL drivers and has been for some time with many programs that use it. To answer your next logical question, Second Life uses OpenGL because it runs on Macs and LInux machines as well as Windows machines and it allows the viewer to be open-source. (And it works just fine on Nvidia cards because Nvidia takes the paper bag off the cat's head before it writes the drivers.)

It had some bug fixes but the big difference is it has support for a new and (hopefully) more reliable way of rendering avatars called "Server-Side Baking" or SSB. The system itself hasn't been turned on yet but it will be in the next few weeks and viewers need to be updated so it will work properly.

A lot of the web-based accessory functions like web profiles are actually handled by a separate program that the viewer loads called "SLplugin.exe" or something similar. Make sure your anti-virus or firewall isn't blocking it.

Ooo, just had a thought - if "Hardware Cloth" (or something that sounds similar) is on in your graphics preferences, turn it off. It's an old setting that was meant to simulate the effect of "wind" on system clothes and it's certainly not that great an effect. I don't think turning it off will hurt anything and it may help, especially with the pant legs. This is different from "Hardware Skinning",which is needed for some things involving mesh and should stay on.

Your processor, memory and hard drive look just fine - SL has very little use for your hard drive. The graphics card should be okay but not spectacular - I have a GT 640 which I like but isn't top of the line by any means. You can see how you like it now and upgrade it later. You'll certainly have no problems running modern viewers at medium settings or seeing mesh. If you upgrade your video in the future you'll want to upgrade your power supply at the same time - the GT630 is probably right at the high end of what a 300 watt power supply will handle and it probably doesn't have the specialized power connectors that many more powerful video cards use. Power supplies are comparatively cheap and can be dropped into a standard full-sized tower chassis without too much drama - I did it myself this past weekend. I assume you're getting WIndows 8 - at this exact moment in time you might look into getting Windows 7 instead. HP was still offering a few boxes with it when I checked a few days ago. SL can run under Windows 8 but there are still some rough patches apparently. However, the complaints I hear don't seem to be coming from Nvidia users so you could be okay.

The servers play very little role in displaying avatar shapes and they are actually running OLDER code than normal right now. Seeing shapes, both yours and others, are basically a viewer function. There are a few possibilities: 1) With server-side baking there's a new parameter added to the shape called "Hover" that was an attempt to compensate for the inability to use TPV Z-offset adjustments with the new system. This has been known to cause glitches with body fat and it may be causing problems with shoulder blades too. This parameter was introduced viewer-side with the latest Firestorm release. See if you see the same thing with an older viewer. 2) Some badly-made rigged meshes can deform body shapes semi-permanently - it's mainly noticeable around the eyes. There are ways to reset them though. The best possibility is probably this, though: 3) They may have ALWAYS looked like that. If your shoulders are narrow your shoulder blades will stick out in sharp points but because the lighting is fairly flat you don't notice them with the standard straight-on view of your avatar's back. However, the points are very noticeable from certain unusual angles and have been as long as I can remember.

unit13 wrote: Freebie Galaxy isn't script-enabled, so your verbose OP just proves 1) you're a liar 2) you're mentally ill. I have no clue what you hoped to achieve with this gibberish, but if it seriously brightened up your day...then please, please - top yourself in RL. I'm not kidding either. I once worked with a woman who was, shall we say, very confident in her own knowledge and not so confident in that of others. So much so, in fact, that one day there was a cloudburst and I mentioned it was hailing. She, without looking out the window, said, "No it's not - it's not cold enough" as I was watching hailstones bouncing off a metal roof. Hi, Nanette!

Chic Aeon wrote: Inventory loss does happen and I am with Faye on this. I have had three MAJOR inventory losses in the last five years. One was my complete home and garden folder with maybe 10,000 items. A RL friend of mine lost her whole store inventory. So it does happen. From what I've heard, the servers send inventory to the viewer one folder at a time, and there's a timeout that is triggered when the viewer can't get a folder's content in a certain amount of time, after which it gives up on it so it doesn't keep trying forever. This can be triggered by folders that have a very large number of items and the number I heard mentioned is (wait for it...) about 10,000 items. Try logging in from another physical location on the fastest connection possible and see if the missing folders show up, and then breaking them up into smaller folders.

Scooby Mode wrote: First off, I already sent a NC about this to one of the support persons for belleza skins. Anyhow, I just literally got this skin about 2 days ago, maybe not even that long and it has already got defected and I have only ever had this happen like once. I was playing paintball earlier, put on a rabbit mesh costume and my skin kinda screwed up, like the top half which is the body and arms look noobie like, the face, neck, pelvis and down look normal, so yeah. I have already tried rebaking, I have ran a character test multiple times, even tried the SL viewer and to no avail, it's still messed up. I can switch to my older skin and it's normal and other skins, but not this new one. To be more specific with the character test, I turned into a noob, took all the clothes off, and everything else and just added the new skin but it didn't work,. I relogged and added the new skin and it worked for a second like it turned noobie, then normal then back to noobie, one time it was normal for a min or two until i added some clothes, then it messed up. So is there anything else i could try? Heck all the copies I made are corrupted as well... What viewer are you using? There are two different image-decoding protocols used in SL - the LL viewer and Firestorm use a system called KDU from a company called Kakadu which requires them to pay a license, and most others use OpenJPG which doesn't need a license but seems less reliable. I've encountered textures that appear corrupt in one viewer, including all the copies I make of it, but which display fine in other viewers, especially if they use the other image protocol..

arabellajones wrote: Since the wild ride came on a crossing between two Main Channel sims, I find it a little difficult to categorize your explanation as anything other than a load of bollocks.. Sorry, I misread your initial post as "mainland." However, seeing as I've flown roughly 50-sim cross-country flights over built-up mainland this week without serious problems, I find it difficult to categorize the idea that region-crossing problems are widespread on the Main Channel as anything other than bollocks in turn.

Just went testing - the problem will be on BlueSteel and LeTigre sims, which are running code that was rolled back to an older version (i.e. older than the rest of the group.) for some reason this week. I didn't see a problem on Magmum or Main Channel sims. Arabella, the five minute Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was probably because you hit one of the regions running this old code.

You might be able to work something out with the Yumix sims. They're a cluster of connected sims have a lot of water and many have aviation/air combat themes. They currently have two connected regions for rent. I believe the owners are Japanese but the sims seem pretty multi-lingual. Just search for "Yumix" on the map.

Nobody can take your objects in SL unless you give them specific permission to. They could sit on them in their current location but that's it. There's a chance your landlord could return your items to the "Lost and Found" of your inventory if they're outside of an area you're allowed to put things but they can't be "stolen."

I live on a Magnum sim and when I logged in tonight after the roll my KittyCats breedable cat was giving a script error stating that it couldn't find the "KittyCats - Sleep" script, even though it showed up when I edited my cat. Given my cat's proclivities I suspect this script was running when the server software was rolled. She seems to be behaving normally now after I took her into my inventory and re-rezzed her.

The thread posted above does sound familiar but one thing sticks out about your connection - your UPLOAD speed, which is extremely slow for a modern Internet connection. SL uses a constant two-way stream of information, unlike most web applications.

Does your lot have a slope? Sometimes on a sloped lot when you try to rezz a house with a "rezz box" some of the pieces will end up higher than the rest of the building because the simulator won't let things rezz underground so items on the slope will be pushed up. If this looks like the problem, raise the rezzbox until it's high enough that everything will come out in the right relationship and then move everything down from there if necessary.

Server-side baking hasn't been released yet. There were inventory issues yesterday but they should be corrected now. Compare settings between yourself and your partner and see how they differ, and if your parner has an alt they could see if that account's affected.

You can't - it's strictly a third-party viewer feature and probably always will. If you want to use RLV and stick with the basic Viewer 3 look you can try Dolphin or Catznip.

Open up the window where they're combined. When the local chat is displayed in the window click on the button with an arrow pointing up and to the right. That will open a separate window for the local chat that you can move to your bottom left corner. You can then move the window for the other chats to anywhere you like. The viewer will remember these locations. Personally I minimize this window and have it pop open only when I recieve IM's. You can keep the separate local chat window open. while your other window is minimized too. If you want to separate your IM's just click the up-right arrow for each one; personally, I used to have IM's in separate windows butI prefer keeping them in the same window but with a separate local chat window.

You can go to "Preferences" and turn off "Download and install updates automatically" - BUT... In a few weeks/months you will absolutely need to have an updated viewer - there are changes coming that won't allow the older viewer to work properly and you'll NEED to update.. I'd advise you to keep using your current viewer but to install the beta viewer along side it and experiment with the new layout. You'll get used to it eventually.