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| Pinoy Hideout (moderate) |
I know I need a new computer. Many of us have this on our wishlist. I’ve been coping though and still managing to take some photos and navigate around the grid.
Lately it’s become ridiculous. I stand there, with advanced lighting turned off, my draw distance at 64, no windlight or other floaters open, and textures just refuse to load. I wouldn’t even mind the idiotic fps of 2 if I could actually see something.
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| Pinoy Hideout (moderate) |
This doesn’t happen to me everywhere, but the result has been that I just give up. Today I was determined to get some shots of Pinoy Hideout↑, the Neva Crystall designed sim which opened a couple of weeks ago.
After trying, and failing, to get the sim to be anything but grey, I installed the recent beta version of the main viewer↑ which addresses lag in mesh textures. Inara has a good post↑ on the project and an explanation by Monty Linden.
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| Pinoy Hideout (moderate) |
The Viewer did its job – although I had to relog a couple of times because it seemed to get (what I’ll call) texture fatigue. I was still dealing with an insanely low fps, and then noticed that everytime my chat window got hit with a message, the world seemed to stop.
I switched chat from “expanded” to “compact” and got a huge bump in performance.
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| Pinoy Hideout (moderate) |
This sim is well worth visiting and they’re hosting a photography contest for those of you who would like to enter. It closes on November 30 and you can see the entries in the Pinoy Hideout Flickr Group↑. All the details about the contest are available at the landing spot – there’s a billboard which will give you a notecard.
I’m going to go buy a lottery ticket and see if I can get lucky enough to replace this beast. The insanity has to end. :)
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Honour's Post Menopausal View (of Second Life) 
Estelle Pienaar
/ November 25, 2014What you could try is have a look at SL GO. It does unfortunately cost 10$ per Month but that is still cheaper than buying a gaming pc every 5 years. Performance should be like having a 2000$ PC all of a sudden. Cloud gaming will be the future anyway. Much cheaper than buying individual computers.
honourmcmillan
/ November 26, 2014:) if that’s the only thing I was doing on here that would make sense
I will check it out again though, thanks!
Inara Pey
/ November 26, 2014When having problems (which can be more rampant thanks to the interest list changes), trying going to Preferences > Graphics and toggling Basic Shaders off (no nee to turn ALM et al off – it will disable them). Wait a handful of seconds as thing pop-into view and render, then toggle Basic Shaders back on.
honourmcmillan
/ November 26, 2014that’s what I’ve been doing with the ALM:) I’ll try the basic instead