Deej Kasshiki

The 'unsupported' message is a generic one that just means that your new video card isn't in the list of cards that the SL client knows about in its database. Most newer cards will report as unsupported and give you this error, but but work just fine with SL. My 2 month old Nvidia GTX 460 shows as unsupported but works great. As others have suggested just make sure that you're running the latest Catalyst drivers downloaded from ATI's website and you should be fine. Are you actually seeing some visual glitch that makes you think your card won't work, or did the unsupported message just freak you out a bit?

You don't have to take the free Linden land with the Linden home. A premium account allows you to buy land anywhere on the mainland and place whatever home you wish. The free LL home in the Linden communities are totally optional.

One thing I've noticed that seems to be a bug is that I have selected for the number of posts and topics to both show up in my badge, but only the post count shows. Going in and selecting other options always seems to display one item less than what's been selected. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Amen Jean. If I wanted to be on FB I'd have an account there and play their stupid games in a web browser. No thanks. And in case the OP didn't realize it, SL is a social network.

There's supposedly some unpublished formula that takes into account a bunch of different factors of participation on the forums. LL is keeping the details secret so that people won't be able to manipulate the system. I think it would be nice to have some small clue, but then again, I think this whole rank system with some residents apparently "worth" more than others is counterproductive to community and silly.

Love is the drug I'm thinking of.

Light grey text on a paper white background is very tough on the eyes No General Discussions area? People like to have a non-specific area on the official LL forums to talk about things not directly related to SL and socialize with each other. Isn't that part of a community's purpose? I have to sign in twice; once on the Dashboard and once to access the new areas. Is this intended? So far what I'm seeing looks nice and the functionality seems to be light years beyond what was here before. Hopefully the various comments will be looked at and suggestions incorporated soon.

The way text communications are handled in v2 is a mess and a major stumbling block for me. Separate local, IMs, notifications, the silly toasts with the tiny icons, the flashing indicators. Yuck and no thanks. Give me the 1.x console style chat. At least give advanced users an option. On the subject of options how about making that space hogging sidebar completely optional as well? That way those who love it can have it while those of us who hate it can get rid of it. For some reason the powers that be at the Lab seem totally unwilling to consider that the sidebar is a major showstopper for many people.

I attended the Viewer 2 Evolution user group meeting this morning and didn't get any real answer as to why text chat is handled the way it is in v2. I'll grant that it's made a lot of progress since last year when it debuted but the atrocious way text is handled and the Lab's refusal to make the screen hogging sidebar totally optional are two major showstoppers for me and many residents. I could live with the fact that v2 is slower, less intuitive (for me) and that I'd have to make drastic changes to the way I interact with the world, but as someone who rarely uses voice and does more than socialize the separate chat, IM and notifications, the lack of standard menu headings (File, Edit, etc) and the sidebar make v2 a non-starter for me.

Not really liking the fact that there's no GD now. I understand the reasoning, but if people want to be uncivil they'll do it regardless of the arbitrary new forum structure. I suppose people will gravitate to wherever there are discussions they find interesting and there will be a snowball effect creating a de facto GD. Here's hoping anyway.

What you're saying makes a lot of sense Fender. It's the only thing that makes any sense as a matter of fact. To all my fellow residents; to those who believed in the whole Your World, Your Imagination hype, those of us who built up SL to what it is currently LL is telling us loud and clear that we're no longer valued, no longer needed or wanted. It doesn't matter whether you've been here 5 years like me or are a Charter Member from 2003 you are not part of the new target demographic of Facebook/Twitter/flavor of the month social networking/invasion of privacy website users and your needs, your wishes or opinions do not matter. It's been a fun ride for the most part but I see the writing on the wall in large letters; your kind no longer welcome here. Of course no one from the Lab will ever say this in public, but I wish that just for once someone would tell us the truth. If my money is no longer welcome here tell me and I'll gladly delete my av and move on. How about it Rod, Fredrik, anyone on the Board? You got the guts to shoot straight with us old timers?

You were getting product or group update info or an updated item from a group you subscribe to or a merchant you bought a product from. It's common that merchants use these servers to get product updates or group notices out to their customers. Another one that's common is named Hippo Vend. At any rate, it's nothing nefarious so you can go ahead and accept. It's more than likely just a notecard announcing a product update.

After nearly 5 years of seeing poor decision, after poor decision by LL, the technology slowly falling behind, the grid getting more wobbly and the only constant being the Board of Directors and VC types, I have little confidence that any CEO will be allowed the latitude to make the changes needed to put SL back on track but, here's hoping. Welcome aboard Mr. Humble and all the best to you. Not to put too much pressure on you but, you may be about the last hope for this virtual world. Users, even the most loyal and "addicted" long-timers like me, will only take so much before giving up in frustration and moving on.

Forget it Shockwave, you'll never convince the Linden Cheerleading Squad and Glee Club that there are problems in paradise. V2 is perfect, the grid is lag-free, LL management's decisions have been good for the majority of investors and residents bringing increased growth and profits for all. LL gets away with the crap they do because, for now, they're the best game in town and know that we really have no choice other than to leave. I'm sincerely hoping that some of the competition matures quickly so that we will have a choice soon. Oh and on-topic, I can't comment on 2.4 because it crashes my MacBook Pro at startup. I won't install it on my Windows box because I have a nicely working Snowglobe 1.4 there and I don't want that environment polluted with bad betaware.

I'm not even going to bother downloading this mess considering the showstopping problems of the Mac viewer. How could you release a viewer in this state? It's also annoying to now have these odd names popping up on the Dashboard friends list and having no clue who they are. Can we at least get BOTH NAMES displayed there so we don't have to go all Sherlock Holmes to figure out who's who?

No standard Edit menu, takes twice the number of steps that it should to do a simple copy/paste, a half-baked feature (display names) that requires goofy workarounds like this sure spells "fast, easy, fun" in my book LL. Way to go! I'm feeling increasingly less like dealing with SL and all it's glitches on top of the Lab's boneheaded direction with each passing day.

Info on LLSD log format is here.

Totally agreed. The display name system places an extra onus of authentication on each and every one of us. Where before all we had to do was quickly glance at the name above an av's head, we now need to make sure certain viewer preference settings are correct, be able to hover the cursor over the person, or look up their profile, or do a search (oh yeah, how's search working in V2, btw?), or wade through the log files that will be in the new LLSD format (not plain text) which isn't very human readable, etc. Fast, easy, fun indeed.

You seem to place a lot of faith in the average person's ability/desire to actually read and comprehend directions. I work in IT and know that people just don't read them. Witness for yourself how many people in this very blog are complaining that this new "feature" isn't working for them when it was clearly stated that display names will initially only be enabled on selected sims (with those sims named). Also keep in mind that the average new user to SL will have no idea about any of this and will probably not be aware of Torley's vids, the SL wiki, KB, this blog, the forums, etc. For that matter many current residents have no idea about these self-help resources (never mind that they all could be made a hell of a lot easier to use). We'll see how it goes but, I have an idea that the potential problems that you brush aside will be greater than you think. Glad that I'm not using V2 and won't see any of this nonsense until forced to switch from (the very reliable and sadly now deceased) Snowglobe. Maybe by the time LL pulls the plug on the 1.x series there will be a usable 2.x TPV.

Those windows don't completely close like in the older 1.x viewers, hence my "half-assed" comment above. You can minimize them down to a title bar but, they remain onscreen (until you redock them with the sidebar).

Anti-aliasing totally broken on the Mac version, horrid performance (half the FPS when moving around as Snowglobe 1.4 on the same 2010 model MacBook Pro), a half-assed solution to the sidebar, same dark eyestrain and claustrophobia inducing look and feel, text chat/IM/notifications are still handled terribly. V2.2 is still a no-go for me. Please don't deprecate the 1.x series viewers until you get this mess usable. Please.

Yeah, and by doing that you're violating the Facebook TOS and will eventually get your account closed without warning as have many, many SL avatars. If I was you I wouldn't go admitting too loudly that your SL character has a FB account.

As someone who's an SL resident as well as an Eve Online player I have to say that this is a very bad move PR-wise and a slap in the face to all those from other MMOs who had no connection to SL. I'm just glad that I didn't talk AU up to all my Eve buddies or they'd be hunting me down and blowing me up by now. Just curious LL; how many times do you think you can announce some new shiny initiative, roll it out half baked, let it languish, then ultimately shut it down before people no longer take anything you announce seriously? Once bitten twice shy as the old saying goes...

Tried the beta and I have to say there are still major issues for me. Deal Breaker The way chat/IMs are handled. Why the need to have each item appear in a separate little black box rather than the 1.x series scrolling console style? Why force me to look at both sides of my screen by having chat and IMs/notifications separated like this? Major annoyances Worse performance than the 1.x series (on both my 3 month old MacBook Pro and 3 year old XP gaming desktop). HUGE drop in fps when panning the cam or moving. Sidebar still can't be disabled or moved. Detached sidebar windows should behave as they did in the 1.x series; once torn off the sidebar we should be able to completely close them, not simply minimize them. Low contrast color scheme. Grey text on a dark background is difficult to read. When combined with the font it becomes very difficult to read. System inventory folders are always sorted ahead of user created folders. Thanks for breaking AA... A bit closer but still no go for me.

Under this new regimen of releases and in light of the whole Snowstorm project, where does this leave the Snowglobe viewers? I'm assuming they're going away since contributed changes no longer need to go through Snowglobe first, but I use Snowglobe 1.4 as my daily viewer and I'm not ready to give it up yet. (V2 still performs horribly on my MacBook Pro and I can't deal with the way text chat is handled either)