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Drake ask to see how the C720 ChromeBook performs in a busy SL Dance Club. Here is the Video........

I thought some of you might be interested in seeing How SL looks using a $200 Acer C720 ChromeBook with Ubuntu operating system installed. Here is the Video on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCXLZlXttjI

Could be a overheating problem? Check cpu fan and video card fans. Secondlife requires more cpu and video card cooling than any video game. Cean up any dust build-up from cpu heat sink or video card heat sink. secondly...Try installing Cool Viewer or Singularity as they both use less resources than SL viewers

Thank you for that last post Perrie I was getting worried with so much initial negative response. First ,I would like to tell you that this last week is my very first experience with linux or Umbutu. But between a few YouTube videos and a bit of googling I managed to convert both my Chromebooks to dual boot mode,(chrome os and ubuntu). You mentioned that 95 % of us would need to go thru a steep learning curve. I agree BUT...... What do you think the percentage is ......of us who would secretely like to know how to use Linux? I have looked at this experience as a simple cheap way to learn something about Linux enviorment and as a bouus i have 2 cool little laptops that can do SL quite well. As far as what Miss Horten said about ubuntu 13.10 being dead one month from now.........it really means ver 13.10 wont be supported after that....it does not mean it wont keep working.....it just wont have update support. But anyone using ubuntu knows that you can simply do the same install procedure again with the next version/release. (ie win 95 does not stop working because Microsoft stopped suporting it.) As to my motives for posting this in our forums....I was simply delighted with how well the new Intel Haswell integrated graphics performed in those cheap little chromebooks...and i wanted to share this with all in this forum. it might give a few more adventuresome residents the incentive to try linux for the first time. dd

I can see you are not up to date on 4th generation intel integrated graphics (haswell) If you look up performance marks of intel Hd 4600....you will find it about same as Nvidia 650. as to noob...level.....yes ...it takes the ability to follow simple instructions........but most SL residents are capable of this.

Buy a $200 Accer C720 with Intel 4th generation 2955U cpu with Haswell integrated 4600 HD graphics. Go to this youtube page and watch how to install Linux ubuntu into the Chromebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_MuVwJq_XQ I suggest you use the 13.10 version of ubuntu called "saucy". I chose the "unity" desktop I suggest you download "software-center" (This is done in terminal mode "sudo apt-get install software-center") Ubuntu is 64 bit so....you will need to download a 64 bit LINUX viewer for SL. I used Singularity 64 bit linux viewer....it will be in TAR/compressed format so download "ArchiveManager" from the software-center that you installed. Use to extract "all files" in singularity folder. After extracting Singularity viewer files.........go to terminal mode and "cd ~/Downloads/ name-of- singularity -folder" Then launch singularity viewer in terminal mode "./singularity" Thats it ! (after first launch you will be able to launch singularity from unity desktop.) Performance: I am getting 25 to 38 FPS in High graphics mode with draw distance of 128meters. BUGS: ALT + left or right arrow key not working to rotate cam around focus. I have done this with 2 chromebooks.......takes about 1 hour to get all installed. Enjoy ! dd

For Nvidia cartds.....the 2nd digit indicates the performance /speed of the graphic card. 625 is very low performance card. (lower numbers for 2nd digit is lower performance and vice versa) I would recommend that if your buying a new card ..... to get at least a 550,650 or 750 . these can be found for just under $100 usd. But you need at least a 400 watt power supply. 500 watt PS would be better.

Perhaps you did not fully understand what Monti was trying to explain to you.....as it is the owner of the parcel that can force all TP to a location of his/her choice...IF they have intentionaly set parcel permissions like this. If they dont check that box in tp landing coordinates...then you can TP to any position you like. (provided you are not banned) Now if you are looking for some way to circumvent the parcel owners permissions settings...then you are trying to hack the system.

I think you need to proof read your last sentence and edit it perhaps?

Simple enough...its the only sim she crashes at..........so give restart sim a try.. it only takes 5 minutes to restart and can't hurt anything. Sim restarts are well known to fix a varity of problems. Will it fix her problem?.....probably not...but its worth a try. And it eleminates another potentially possible cause. other thoughts..... I am sure you notice that her frame rate FPS is always much lower at or near ground level........look in statistics to view that. Perhaps she is wearing something that tries to do data communication if she is within range of some object in that sim and cause an abnormal load on communications with her viewer. Good luck finding your friends issue........be sure to report here if you find a solution....to help others who may have similar issues.

You have restarted Sim? you did not mention,,,

"i found a guide that showed me how to delete a bunch of files" ? not sure why you mentioned this? Also make sure you look inside every folder in your inventory.......in case it got accidently hidden inside a different folder. Also try clearing cache and then logging into to a different region/sim than you normally log in at. The only other alternative is to submit a support ticket to the Lindens to see if they can restore your missing items. Good luck

You should "clear your cache" and then relog..if you have not done so already. If your inventory starts loading when you relog.. you are in business again . Also you may need to upload a new version of your old viewer.

Thanks Drake..ill have her check on that and ill look to see if this option still exist.

Thanks Seanabrady ...I'll translale and pass your post on to her.

Thanks Dresden...I think that's the best avenue to persue (i.e why always reloading inventory in same sim evey log in.)

i guess you missed the part about her alternate avatar with very small inventorry has no problems on same pc/system. Also my friend does not speak english.

I am curious if any of the helper experts can provide some incite as to how very large inventories ( > 70,000 items) can effect viewer performance? (good performance = no lag + ability to have normal fast physical movement of avatar) The effect my friend with very large inventories experience is frozen avatar at login........with "'inventory loading" message. As soon as the entire inventory is loaded.... the avatar is able to move normally.......but for very large inventories this can take several minutes or sometimes just crash depending on viewer used. I dont actually understand why the full inventory needs to be reloaded anyway .....as long as the resident did not do a "clear cache" request. This same person has an alternate avatar .... with a very small inventory......and that avatar is able to log in and have normal good performance immediately with no lag. The same effect is seen with different viewers although some seem to recover faster.......ie 3rd party viewers. This person is in europe so...ping times are close to 220 ms.......this person has vista operating system with only 2 gb Ram available. Connection speed is usually 6 mb. eithernet not wireless. Has older hi performance nvidia graphics. So it "seems" to be caused by the large inventory trying to load again on every relog......... as the same PC with very low inventory avatar has no performance problems. Any constructive thoughts would be appreciated..... thanks :) P.S. yes she is making every effort to reduce inventory to a more manageable size

Try logging in to a different region, If that fails ....restart your router and try again. good luck

Jira BUG-5504 that i submitted was closed out today ...reason given:duplicate of MAINT-3517 bug However when i did search of this issue before submitting JIRA 5504.....no simililar issues were found! and we are not allowed / not permitted to see what MAINT-3517 about or its status on the issue tracking system. i thought Lindens announced going back to the old system where we could view bug issues submitted by other residents? What happened to that idea?

We have recently noticed a new bug ....when a flying vehicle does a SIM crossing...the LSL collision event is being falsely triggered. Was first noticed on flying vehicle landing approaches that are near sim crossings. Then later we put a simple collision event script into a Hang glider vehicle root prim and found 2 collision events were being triggered at most every sim crossing. All my testing was done on main sim servers Agni type servers. I submitted jira bug 5504 this morning.

@ Whirly.........perfect !!!

Hi, Everytime you Rez a prim or an object , It is assigned a new key. If you take the object back to inventory and rez it again....a new key is assigned. If the object remains rezzed...and the sim is reset...it should keep the same Key . (in theory .. Disclaimer :As you know ....anything that can go wrong .....will. Its only a question of time or SL

Hi , I always just left click and DRAG a photo or texture from my in world inventory onto my in world profile photo area. Or" am i mising some rocket science here? Anyway....glad you found a solution.

Hi again... Just to be clear what is your FPS typically before you enable chat window.? and....what GPU/ video card are you using? What is your connection speed? What graphic mode are you using in the sl viewer i.e high, low. med , ultra etc What is your "draw distanced" set to in graphic preferences? Without that info it is difficult to make suggestions to help. Are you using wireless connection? using Desktop? Laptop? Have you tried logging into another region that has very few Avatars and very few textures? Stand facing the open sea/ocean and see if your FPS returns to normal acceptable rate. Lots of smart residents here to help you just need a bit more information to be helpful dd Edit: i just saw that you say problem was solved with the new viewer version....... good for you dd