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Baloo Uriza

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  1. I'd be happy to get on teamviewer or Google Hangouts and see if I can't spot the problem for you. Email me at baloo@ursamundi.org if you're interested.
  2. This comes up often enough that Google would have answered this faster. If it's under warranty, call the manufacturer and have them clean it. Otherwise, you need to take it apart and get all the dirt out of the fans and ducts. Blasting through the vents is probably insufficient if you have pets, live in a humid climate, and/or smoke. If you have a Compaq or HP, you're probably screwed, HP doesn't really care about proper cooling under load, and Compaq is HP's discount brand.
  3. You're best sticking exclusively to Alienware (if you like fugly cases and bad battery life), Dell Precision (better battery life for the same hardware Alienware has in a substantially less flashy package or, for best reliability and support, Lenovo ThinkPad W series (built to last and doesn't paint you into a WinCorner).
  4. The issue you describe is Windows-specific, and nVidia isn't that much better on Windows. For all other supported platforms, though, AMD is the better option. If you want to avoid painting yourself into a WinCorner, ATI/AMD is the way to go for your GPU.
  5. You might want to take a different approach to how you ask people online in the future. The answers you received were based on the premise you presented.
  6. Is your CPU heat sink secure? Is the fan turning freely? Is it clean?
  7. You pay for land. Any viewer issues you're having, especially with third party viewers, is your problem.
  8. Sounds like a good time to try Imprudence or Singularity.
  9. Better figure out how to make it work, pretty sure textures over the in-band positioning stream are going away with the introduction of server-side baking, because HTTP takes less bandwidth than trying to blast it in-band over UDP.
  10. You don't. I'd go with Singularity over Firestorm any day, though, if only given the issues with trust and the lack thereof the Firestorm/Phoenix/Emerald/Whatever-they-call-themselves-this-week team have had over time.
  11. You're blaming the physics engine and renderer for the content creators, which really isn't fair to the engine.
  12. Better to revive an old post than to start a redundant one. The SL community needs to get over it when it comes to reviving an old thread for good reason.
  13. Basically, yes. A good designer knows how to make something look good in as few polys as possible. Bad designers will charge you a load for needlessly high poly counts, then blame your computer for being underpowered.
  14. Which viewer? What exact version number? No, "latest viewer" is not useful inforation. Also, just pry the caps lock off your keyboard and throw it away, you don't need it.
  15. Your router likely lacks memory sufficient to route the amount of UDP packets you're throwing at it. Do things get better if you enable HTTP textures and inventory? This moves the bulk of traffic to TCP connections, which El Cheapo routers handle better, leaving the connectionless UDP packets for position tracking (a way more efficient and less trouble-prone approach all around). Also try turning down your bandwidth by a lot and slowly increment it higher until you hit the point things start screwing up again...
  16. Moving away from Windows will probably be your best option in that price range.
  17. Too much work, miss bugfixes. Better fix: Use Singularity instead.
  18. If you're on Debian, try sudo m-a a-i fglrx, wait for the magic to finish, then restart X. (Logging out and back in is usually sufficient). Other Linux distros are similarly easy to automagically get the right drivers downloaded and installed in one single action. If you're on Windows, God help you.
  19. This is America. You can be sued for anything, whether you did it or not. Or even alive in some cases!
  20. Why would you want to do something that hinders the ability to continue am existing discussion rather than reinvent the wheel on a topic??
  21. amd64 is just the name of the architecture, even at intel, for the most popular 64-bit CPU architecture on the market. AMD came up with the design. As for your hate and fear issues, get over it, you have it harder in terms of the "wild and wooly" stuff in Windows. And you probably already use Linux every day without even realizing it (for example, most flat screen TVs, Motorola set top boxes, Android phones, some ATMs, TiVo, and other stuff that absolutely positively has to work with as little intervention as possible).
  22. I'd go with Debian Linux on amd64, and any recent vintage higher-end Radeon. NVIDIA also works, but seems to be a bit more glitchy and harder to troubleshoot for the same performance. It's hard to do worse than any version of Windows, given that Microsoft totally hates supporting OpenGL (despite the fact the rest of the industry uses it) because they're pushing that DirectX **bleep**. Combine that with a desktop environment that already rides the GPU pretty hard, and Windows becomes a fantastic boat anchor on your SL performance. Bottom line: Go with linux, stick to ATI or NVIDIA, can't go wrong.
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