Casper Warden

It would be nice to have, but not essential to make multithreaded rendering a reality. OpenGL supports context sharing, it's possible to fill vertex buffers and such on multiple threads. Draw calls must only be made from one thread at a time, but it's half of the way there. Not quite as nice as DirectX's deferred contexts, which supports simultaneous draw calls, and definitely not as flexible as vulkan/metal/DX12, but it's something. But yeah, your point stands still - such changes would be incredibly complex.

Hm, I remember Firestorm in 2010 had the menu option Advanced -> Rendering -> Run Multiple Threads And I remember some chat about deferred rendering at the same time.. (in before "ok boomer") Edit: I see now this only referred to background threads. The menu option was a bit misleading i suppose. But .. yeah, multi-threaded deferred rendering is absolutely possible, maybe one day

I believe the viewers have had multithreaded rendering for quite some time.

For what it's worth, Firestorm is currently using 41% of my GPU and 11% of my CPU, at my home region (AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti), getting about 450fps. Of course, this will tank depending on what region you're on. The main issue with Second Life is it's all custom content. Lots and lots of custom (often very unoptimised) content is really hard to render efficiently. Games that you play will have huge amounts of precalculated baking, geometry shaders to do the heavily lifting, etc. However, if you run your viewer at 4k resolution you're certainly going to make more use of your GPU.

When filing a ticket, the link will automatically log you in, no password is required. I'll re-open your ticket and I'll take a look at that issue.

CasperHelp Resident is always online (except for brief periods during rolling restarts), it's a support bot - its sole job is to give you a link to file a ticket. The ticket system is how we manage support requests - I'm afraid that if you don't want to file a ticket, there's not a lot we can do - we need details on the event in order to assist you.

Hi Anna! For security reasons, the redelivery link which is generated for you will expire after a short while. Once expired, you'll be asked to sign in - but instead you can just use the redelivery terminal again to get a new link if you wish. Regarding the "Internal error" - we'd like to look into that! Can you please contact CasperHelp Resident in-world with the details on that (which product did you try to redeliver? Does it happen again when you re-try)? Many thanks! ~Casper

That didn't reach us. I'll change our wiki now to reflect that. The intention was never for linden homes to be used solely for dropboxes (why wouldn't you just get a regular mainland parcel, in that case?), but for merchants to be able to use the space they already occupy. Dropboxes only use very minimal region resources, so they certainly don't cause any performance issues. But yeah, I completely get the problem with deserted plots being used for commercial means.

I can totally understand your concern. At the moment, we're still genuinely operating exactly as we always were. No secret sauce I expect that in the future, we'll be able to offer enhanced services as a result of tighter integration with Second Life - that makes complete sense, right? But I wholeheartedly disagree that it precludes resident-led alternatives. There's nothing stopping anyone from making a 3rd party marketplace - I even ran one for a while. I shut it down due to lack of time to maintain it, not due to any interference from LL, inability to compete or lack of interest. If we do manage to make a system which is so amazingly perfect for everyone that nobody could possibly need anything else, then surely that's a win for merchants - but I think that a "one solution fits all" scenario is unlikely. The community is so diverse, and creators are always innovating - that's one of the things I love about Second Life. There do exist some great alternatives to CasperVend, and I can't imagine why they wouldn't be able to continue. Put it this way - if the tables were turned, I wouldn't be concerned. (This comes from me, and me alone. I am not speaking for, or on behalf of anyone but myself.)

Hi Coffee! Well, first of all, I should point out that LL do charge money for some of their services and these additional services still cost money to run. Honestly, I think that CasperVend and CasperLet remain incredibly competitively priced. It was made pretty clear during the announcement that nothing would change for the foreseeable future. LL have secured CasperTech for Second Life, there's now no risk of us disappearing like other operators have - stability is important for merchants!

Hi Vha2the We recently changed the redelivery site so that it displays purchases with other stores separately. Just click the "From other stores" tab at the top and you'll be able to see all of your purchases.

We could potentially make a search kiosk. How would that fit your needs?

Parcel audio isn't commonly used as an attack vector for this. While it's possible to get a user's IP address in this manner, the parcel audio URL can't be customised for each individual avatar, it gets sent to everyone on the parcel, so it's harder to accurately link avatars to IP addresses.

A HUD calling home can't reveal your IP address. Scripts operate from the region's IP address. The only way a scripted device can get your IP address is via targeted media, i.e they tell your viewer to access media at a certain personalised URL, which binds your IP address to your avatar key. This is how RedZone operated before it was yeeted from the grid. Use the Media Filter built into your viewer. Don't accept media requests that you don't recognise.

If you attempt to teleport to a region and it refuses you due to an estate-level ban, it will refuse any subsequent attempts from your IP address until the region is restarted. I don't think this is documented, just something which I've observed during my time in SL.