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Verena Vuckovic

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  1. Hmm....a new issue for me recently, just wondering if anyone else using Firestorm has it...

    I teleport to a new site, and often within a short time of doing so the screen just freezes up for maybe 5 or 10 seconds. I'm running on fast ( 80mbps ) connection and nothing has changed on my computer from before this issue started.

     

     

  2. I wish Linden Lab every success with the new virtual world. Ironically, the more realistic and impressive a virtual world is, the less likely it is to become ( as SL has tended to be ) just a glorified 3D dating agency. The more people are able to immerse themselves in a more realistic other world...the less likely they are to want to simply 'augment' this one. Perhaps the new SL will become what the concept was always supposed to be...with the 'Second' bit of SL having some genuine meaning.

  3. Because many of us are anonymous in SL, one doesn't necessarily even know if a SL friend has actually died in RL. People can just disappear, and though one might suspect the worst one never really knows for certain.

    There is also, sad to have to say, the recurring issue of fake 'deaths'. There are some well known cases, and I myself know of at least one case where a person has faked a RL death and even had a 'date of death' mentioned on a friend's profile...my suspicion being raised when their account was showing 'last online date' in groups as being after the date they 'died' ! On IMing and challenging the person I got a load of evasiveness about how 'a relative' was logged in. Strange how the 'relative' typed exactly the same as the alleged deceased and had somehow even invited the 'dead' person into a new group.

    So I guess the standard SL rule applies with death as much as with anything else : -  Caveat emptor.

  4. One of the great ironies of SL is that often the people who make a big do over whether a person is 'really' this or that sex don't seem to have any problem with their correctly sexed avatar looking not a day over 18 and being slim and attractive, well dressed, and muscular built with a full head of hair....whilst their proudly posted 'RL photo' shows a bald, obese, rather plain old person with no dress sense.

  5. "B) actively working to modify your software, network, or hardware to solve whatever issue  you have.

     

    What would you like me to 'modify' on a completely fresh Windows install that only has SL running on it ?

    And all this HTTP being sent 40 times nonsense....whose 'fault' is that ? Do I get an option in it ?

    Am I to believe that a system that can download Bioshock Infinite ( 15gb ) off Steam in 15 minutes can't handle a few lousy textures ??

  6. "Some modems/routers choke on this many connections."

    Well...I'm running the BT Home Hub 5, which is designed for super-fast broadband and only came out a few months ago. So I'm not exactly running some archaic old router.

    What's more, 'change appearance' and save does sometimes fix the issue, though often it doesn't, which alone suggests it is not a problem at my end or it would be consistent.

    My definition of a problem NOT being at my end is if my system meets the minimum spec ( which it well exceeds ) and I've been given no information by the service provider that anything else within the normal scope of things would cause a problem. If, for example, SL is running some procedure that the providers KNOW will cause prooblems on a lot of PCs ( such as the HTTP stuff ) yet fail to give any warning or notice of this....then the problem is clearly at the provider end for not telling people about it.

  7. "There are not many threads on this topic because it appears most have just given up and live with the problem

    Yes the problem exists No it is not operating system sensitive"

     

    Yes, there are many people who have noticed the issue. And as you say, most have simply given up on anything ever being done about it....or getting anything other than a condescending ' it must be your computer ' type response from the self-proclaimed know-alls.

    The problem exists. It is real. It is not people's imaginations or creaky old computers. What is more, the textures clearly ARE being downloaded fully as they appear fine if one briefly does a 'change appearance' yet it goes back to being blurred if you exit that. The problem has existed for months and months now.

    But given the general sort of response here, one might as well go back to just giving up on the issue.

  8. "Server side baking is working as intended. If you're having problems, fix your computer."

     

    Same old condescending nonsense. There is nothing wrong with my computer. I work with computers...I probably know more about them than you do !

    My computer is only 18 months old and is way above the minimum requirements for SL....and is running on an 80mbps connection. I get the issue even when SL is the only application installed after a completely new install of Windows....so there is not some software conflict or something. My partner is running on an even higher spec machine ( GTX 700 series GPU ) and yet still gets the exact same problem.

    So...any more bright ideas before you admit what we all know....that it is actually a problem with SL

  9. "There may or may not be a solution for your problem but I can't find a single post by you saying "Help."

    It's quite clear that people who's entire approach is ' It can't possibly be anything wrong with SL....it must be your system' are incapable of even understanding the concept of help....let alone providing it.

    I don't want your patronising and condescending  'help'....I want a probem with SL to be fixed.

  10. As for being affected by 'some other issue'....this problem has persisted through 3 complete reinstallations of Windows ( which were done for other reasons ) and several updates of graphics driver, etc etc etc. The problem still exists with SL installed 5 minutes earlier on a completely fresh install of Windows. My partner has the exact same issue. I know others with the exact same issue. I rest my case.

  11. It has never worked. Not once. I've lost count of the number of times I've changed my clothes and my avatar goes all blurred...and NOTHING will make it go un-blurred. Sometimes not even re-logging works.

    Ctrl-Alt-R used to do the trick, but that now has zero effect. The rebake option in 'Advanced' either takes years or has no effect.

    Server side bakng was supposed to make things better. Instead it has done the complete reverse. What is more, if I cannot see my own avatar clearly...how do I now if anyone else can ? I now spend half my time in a blurry state, having to constantly relog in the hope that doing so will fix the issue.

  12. Second Life is a virtual world divided into about 30,000 'sims'...each with a different theme or activity. Most of those sims are designed and their content created by the actual users of Second Life.

    Although Second Life as a whole is not a game, there are individual sims where you can partake in game-like activity. There's also no end of roleplay sims.

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