Midnightamber Berithos

Quick follow up I logged in and adjusted the settings as you suggested Whirly and it actually added more clarity to my screen. Now that I think about it I do remember tweaking the glow settings in Phototools to see what effect it would have on the lighting. At the time the changes were not obvious but as I moved around SL I noticed the white bars but didn't connect the issue with the glow setting changes. Thank you so much I won't be doing that again! 😊

Thanks everyone, my screen size changes depending on what kind of photos I am taking. Sounds weird I know but it works for me. I change the screen size for in world image cropping for my photos. I do nearly no RL editing I try to do it all with SL tools and that means sometimes changing the screen size to my needs at the moment. That might be how I got my Render Glow messed up since I was also tweaking other things to see the effect like shadow quality and w/l transition time. Whirly I will look at the Render Glow again and see how your suggestions impact my viewer. Thank you all for the suggestions, I was feeling terribly lost and concerned about possibly having to give up Firestorm. The upside is that I learn from the comments.

good to know Solar. Does it need to be checked and set at a low level or whatever the default level is?

Woohoo! I think I got it! I went to a skybox and stood next to a black wall. I noticed the bars actually look like a blurring or almost like an aura so I browsed through the graphics settings and under Rendering I saw something called "Render Glow". I unchecked it and the bars vanished no matter where I went or which windlights I used it is gone. So if anyone else runs into that try unchecking Render glow. I am not sure what the function of that tool is but it definitely messed up my graphics. Many thanks to Gage and Rowan for their comments. I really appreciate it!

I used Midday on each viewer but the bars create a kind of haze over the screen that seem to really impact the color and shading. I don't see it anywhere but Firestorm.

Never thought about it but...I am a texture designer and builder in SL In RL I have often refinished and restored furniture and I am an accomplished seamstress who can spend hours browsing fabric stores. Interesting thought.

Thank you Gage. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (2496 MHz) Memory: 8055 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 19042.746) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 Graphics Card Memory: 4096 MB Windows Graphics Driver Version: 27.21.14.6140 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 461.40 RestrainedLove API: (disabled) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8 nghttp2/1.40.0 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.0.6 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.01.05 Dullahan: 1.8.0.202007261348 CEF: 81.3.10+gb223419+chromium-81.0.4044.138 Chromium: 81.0.4044.138 LibVLC Version: 2.2.8 Voice Server Version: Not Connected Settings mode: Firestorm Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey) Window size: 1920x1001 px Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi) Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt UI Scaling: 1 Draw distance: 128 m Bandwidth: 1450 kbit/s LOD factor: 2 Render quality: High (5/7) Advanced Lighting Model: No Texture memory: Dynamic (3072 MB min / 10% Cache / 10% VRAM) VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): 2021-1-27T21:12:27 Built with MSVC version 1916 Packets Lost: 3/28,522 (0.0%) February 01 2021 17:08:10 SLT

A couple of weeks ago white vertical bars appeared on my Firestorm. I tried all sorts of things and thought initially that it was my computer after various tests and updates to my computer and graphics card the lines are still there. I tried uninstalling and doing a clean install but the bars are still there. I stepped back to the last version but the bars are still present. I decided to check the SL viewer and Alchemy viewer but the bars are not showing on those viewers even with the same w/l and graphics settings and can be clearly seen even on the lowest graphic setting and with advanced lighting off. The bars are visible on all regions and visible with most w/l. Anyone know if this is a setting issue or an actual Firestorm bug? . Firestorm Viewer SL Viewer Alchemy Viewer