Nyll Bergbahn

Yes, your Profile says Payment Info Used... not sure what's happening...perhaps too many changes in a short period. How long a time did you sign up for on premium..monthly, quarterly or annually? You will stay premium until that period expires. Has the premium home gone from your Dashboard? Under Land Manager > My Mainland. Allow the web site catch up and see what it says in a hour or two. Greetings from another Irish resident :-) Nyll

Hi America! In Viewer 2 it's under World > Place Profile > About Land > Abandon Land button. Nyll

Armani Static wrote: Hi guys.. I'm trying to lower my rendering cost. Its really really high. 3 Questions: 1. Is there anyway to delete scripts from no-modifiable prims? 2. I tried a freebie script scrubber..doesnt seem to be working even on modifiable items. I just drag the scrubber script into the prims content folder..and nadda. It says the prim has been cleaned however my rendering cost is the same. Am I doing something wrong? 3. If I have no scripts in the item and the rendering cost is high..am I technically lagging a sim? Or are my items just going to take longer to rezz for the other individual camming me? If anyone can provide me more info on rendering cost issues and deleting scripts that would be great. Thanks Here is the official wiki page on avatar rendering cost, how it is calculated and how to reduce yours. As mentioned at the end of that article, if someone with a high ARC is affecting your enjoyment of a sim and you have avatar impostors enabled, just mute the person to bring his/her ARC down to 1. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Avatar_Rendering_Cost Nyll

Hi Karma! Just ask the estate owner or manager to restart the sim to get rid of the ghost prims. That will solve it. If you're on mainland, you will need to ask Support to do likewise or wait till the next rolling restart. Nyll

Online gaming probably uses about 100MB an hour. Second Life no doubt uses quite a bit more due to the way it handles data. I've seen mention of about 120MB to 150MB an hour. 5GB per month doesn't sound like it would suffice for a couple of hours of SL a day plus all your other internet use. Nyll

You're very welcome and I'm glad it worked! Nyll

It's likely the Windows reinstallation has resulted in your graphics card using a generic Windows driver for display as seemingly this can happen. Also, if you did reinstall the Nvidia driver you should reinstall it again as there has been a problem between Nvidia cards and SL in this respect. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/NVIDIA_drivers_appear_to_be_causing_problems_with_the_Second_Life_viewer Use the latest driver for your card. The Nvidia link is at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Graphics_Cards Nyll

Cool. Thanks Suspiria! Nyll

Thanks Irene:) Viewer 2.0.2 was also crashing on taking a snapshot for Inventory but not all the time. I may do some more tests on it when I get the time if I can do this on the beta grid where it won't cost me 10L a test! Nyll

There is also a serious issue with scripted object notifications peristing through logins. I lodged a PJIRA on this. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-19918 This was proving so annoying I had to uninstall 2.02 and go back to the main viewer. Nyll

Hi Luc! What happens when you left click the Control Panel? It should bring up a link to a website with the controls. Does nothing happen when you click it? Nyll

It's the Second Life Test Viewer on the download page. https://secure-web43.secondlife.com/my/support/downloads/ It's actually named 2.0.2 (205799) not 2.1. Nyll

There is a tutorial video by Torley Linden here: Nyll

Asami Imako wrote: However! There are benefits outside of SL that may persuade you to go NVidia, depending on if you play other games. PhysX for one, CUDA (although I'd assume OpenCL will eventually catch on for being more widely supported), and 3D Vision (although you'd need an external monitor for that) are all good reasons to go NVidia. -Asami Edit: Windows 7 is fine also. 64bit here. Gamers already know how to use PhysX with their preferred ATI cards. They install an NVIDIA card in their computers but set the ATI as the primary display card. NVIDIA shot itself in the foot by inserting code in its drivers to stop PhysX working if its driver sees an ATI card in the machine, thus angering many gamers. There is a patch to disable NVIDIA's restrictive code though. Nyll

Baloo Uriza wrote: Too general of a question. Both companies make GPUs that won't support SL, and both companies make GPUs that support SL quite well. Mind narrowing it down to a few final selections in your price range? Tilna already did in one reply above and seems to have made her choice as the question is answered. Nyll

Landmark. Stand on the landing point and create a landmark from the World menu.

Send him the LM not a teleport invite. Then the landing point will work. An invite will bypass a landing point. Nyll

Wilde Nitely wrote: I have a Dell with an ATI and two ThinkPads with Nvidea. The ThankPads run SL very well, SL sometimes causes the ATI driver to crash. Though I expect newer versions will differ as has been expressed in this thread. Check also LL's recommendations, they used to recommend Nvidea over ATI, that may also have changed. Linden Labs recommending nVidia cards dates back to 2003 when the companies were involved in commercial dealings to optimise SL for the GeForce FX range of cards. http://lindenlab.com/pressroom/releases/03_05_14_2 This is presumably why older graphics cards seem biased towards nVidia in working well with Second Life. But with developments in Second Life in the intervening years and the popularity of ATI graphics cards in the general gaming community compared to NVIDIA, it would make no sense for LL still to favour NVIDIA. Certainly, LL work closely with AMD/ATI to resolve issues just as they do with NVIDIA. Nyll

When it comes to gaming graphics cards, ATI are quite some way ahead of NVidia, apart from NVidia's new Fermi chips (GTX470/480) which have redressed the balance somewhat. Regarding ATI and Second Life, it's true, there has been some issues in the past and probably still for users of the older cards. With some minor tweaking of Catalyst, I've run an ATI card for the past three years with no problems. I'm not aware of any issues in the modern cards such as the 4000 and 5000 series. Incidentally, some NVidia cards have proved troublesome with Second Life too. I've just purchased a new gaming computer running Windows 7 and an ATI Radeon HD5850 (CPU and GPU overclocked) and it works perfectly with no tweaking whatsoever on Catalyst 10.4, the current version. I can run Ultra at up to 70 fps (frames per second) in quiet sims although in very busy sims this can drop to about 30-35 fps. Generally, graphics performance is exemplary and what Ihehy said about NVidia cards giving stunning graphics to ATI's cards average is just totally wrong. I'm not too familiar with the Mobility Radeon cards but I would expect similar performance from them. There is no reason why not. Nyll

Hi Vala! Gosh that's a bummer! I have no idea what the windows update may have done unless it has messed up the graphics driver. But it shouldn't have so perhaps it's totally unrelated. Anyway, what shows up in your Device Manager? Does it say 'generic display adaptor' or some such description? To access Device Manager: Click on the Start button and then choose Control Panel. Click on the System and Maintenance link. In the System and Security window, click on the Device Manager link located under the System heading. If the Display Adaptor under Display Device is not the ATI Radeon but the generic windows one, right click on it select " update driver software " and direct it to the correct ATI Radeon driver. If it is showing the ATI driver, then I don't know what could now be wrong. I'm sorry but I really don't know how the windows update could have changed things. Hopefully someone else will. Nyll

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3811 https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3806 Nyll

That's great. Hope you'll be back inworld soon! Nyll

For your problem, these are the steps you need to take. Log in to your Dashboard. Select Help > Submit a ticket. On the page that opens scroll down to Click here to submit a ticket The type in a quick summary of what's wrong in the first box. Select Special Questions Basic account or Guest login. Under Basic or Guess access , select Account issues. Under Basic Account issues, select I can't login inworld with my account. Fill in the other boxes including a description of what's happened and give the location Wolwaner kindly provided and submit the ticket. Nyll

Jordan, that's a hover tip. Just make sure there is no X against Show Hover Tips in the View menu. Ctrl+Shift+T is just a shortcut to manually doing it via the View menu. I see you have marked the question answered so is it now solved? Nyll

ohhh hover tips..Farrah just gave you the answer. Nyll