It has been some time since I checked the performance of my Firestorm Viewer. The last check was 9/2022. So, over a year.

This year I had some trouble running the tests. My house in Bellisseria was not rezzing. I mean floors and walls were missing. After a couple of three logins, I got the floors and walls but had to wait for the textures to fully render.

I checked and found Windows again used 100% of my hard drive’s capacity when a region was being difficult. The viewer used little CPU, GPU, and network resources while it waited on the hard drive.

Ever since the release of Windows 11, my Win-10 has been having this problem of 100% disk use for 5 to 15 minutes. Occassionally more. Very annoying.

Firestorm Hot Fix v6.6.17

Porch 512m	18.6 fps
Porch 128m	40.5
Porch 128m w/snow	37-48
Green Room @ 2200m DD=128m	150
Nelsonia 17peps @ DD= 128m	70-74
Arapaima 37peps @ 128m	50-55
Exhale Club 28peps @ 128m	48-52

With this version, I am getting almost the same numbers as in 2022 with v6.6.4. You can use the link above if you want to compare.

Second Life Viewer

Porch 512m	18.6 fps
Porch 128m	40
Porch 128m w/snow	52
Green Room @ 2200m DD=128m	60
Nelsonia 16peps @ DD= 128m	58
Arapaima 34peps @ 128m	60
Exhale Club 48peps @ 128m	37

The FS and SL viewers are similar. Except for my Green Room. This is the recent PBR-enabled SL viewer.

I am not sure what’s up with the Green Room. I suspect the SL viewer has a cap on FPS. I can’t find any place to turn off such a limit. The old limit value in Debug Settings is marked as ‘Unused’. I suspect the Lindens are moving to more viewer-controlled settings as the population dumbs down. Whatever the case, not having control is annoying.

Otherwise, the two viewers have about the same performance.

There is the problem of things not rendering. Like my house refusing to render until my 3^rd relog. None of the old tricks work. The house just is not there.

I’ve eliminated network issues, cache issues, lag issues… I am pretty certain the viewer and servers are just not communicating correctly. Since I’ve seen a similar problem in the SL viewer, I’ll blame the servers or sever to viewer connection and handshaking.

I did find it odd that the snowfall seemed to increase the frame rate in both viewers. The SL Viewer shows the snowfall at blizzard levels. FS Viewer shows a more modest snowfall. I checked the settings in both viewers and the particle settings are the same… at least the settings in the panels are the same. Obviously, they are handling them differently.

I also noticed the render in the SL Viewer has more saturated colors. I haven’t decided if that is a PBR thing or my settings in the viewers.

Merry Christmas!