Those constant Auto updates of SL Viewer changed my Preferences settings for Graphics, etc. Now it takes forever to load graphics. Usually my avatar is a particle cloud or white oval for a long time. Prims & builds appear as big gray blobs & gray geometric shapes. Colors (sky, etc) are very muddy / dark. When I adjust Graphics preferences higher, the sky etc turn pitch black - even my avvie's skin turned black. When I adjust bandwidth higher, everything chokes instead of improving. Even with all settings as Low as you can go, regardless of what I do, everything is super-laggy now and takes *forever* to load - and sometimes never loads. Yes, I have an older laptop but it worked "fine enough" as of 1-2 weeks ago. Yes, cleared cache etc. No, I can't afford a new laptop right now. Nothing is changed regarding my network, etc. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.