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Graphics Tweaking for Second Life

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…Plus its rainy in California… So, this article is about the arcane art of Graphics Settings tweaking. We’ll see if I can explain things in English for the less geeky residents of Second Life and provide something helpful to those neither novice nor supper geek. Complexity I can’t tell you how to best set your computer graphics for SL considering how different everyone’s computers are and how different our preferences and perceptions are, that jus… Continue reading →

KirstenLee S21(3) RC2 Review & New Profiles

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…on the General Panel. These items seem to be the more often used settings. Graphics Settings – General Tab: This panel skips the empty panel the SLV2 initially displays and shows the advanced settings. If one is using Kirsten’s viewer they are an advanced user, so it only makes sense. The typical Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings labels are gone. The slider is there but smaller and labeled simply as min and max. The Light and Shadows settings… Continue reading →

Niran’s Viewer Finalized Review

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…ed a couple of hours. No problems, crashes, or logouts. New Graphics Panel Graphics Settings The graphics panel in Preferences was changed. The Graphics II panel was removed and an Advanced Graphics panel added. However, all the fun stuff is in the Graphics tab. The image shows the new panel. The green outline shows the new Open Optimizer button. The yellow arrow shows a visual glitch that is NOT part of the panel. I found it hard to avoid getting… Continue reading →

How To get a Faster Second Life

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…balance for your preferences and hardware. For adjusting the SL Viewer and graphics card settings see: Graphics Tweaking for Second Life. When settings don’t give the render quality and performance we want then we look at upgrading the hardware and software. However, there are a few things we can do before spending any money. Computer Use One can get a bit more performance out of Second Life viewers by closing all other running programs, especiall… Continue reading →

Avatar Render Problems: Ghost Cloud Smoke Ball Ruth

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…most other viewers it is labeled HTTP Get Textures and is somewhere in the Graphics settings. Worst case, try looking in Debug Settings. This setting is about how your viewer downloads textures. It is (was) also the center of much of the current TPV development and incompatibility with SL and SLV2’s. I suspect this may be at the heart of why all these avatar render problems are hitting now. If you are trying to fix a problem with how others see yo… Continue reading →

Kirsten Viewer Install Tips

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…g provides a big step up in performance. However, one has to benchmark the settings. For default settings letting a big 400 series card do it all gives the best performance. So, unless one is into tweaking settings… Remember. SLI requires matching cards. No mixing, AFAIK. All the Settings Niran provides a good explanation of things like Deferred, Shadows, SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion), and Global Illumination. In some cases rather than exp… Continue reading →

KirstenLee Viewer s20(30) Released – Review

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…first trick to shadows is getting them turned on. In Me -> Preferences -> [Graphics] [General] there are settings titled Bump mapping and shiny, Basic shaders, and Atmospheric shaders. These need to be on and are the basic settings for normal use. Clicking Lighting and Shadows (L&S) enables Dynamic Shadows and Global Illumination. For both of these there are additional settings in other panels. Checking both of these should enable your shadows and… Continue reading →

Second Life Project Viewer version 3.8.4.304433

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…and Advanced Graphics Panels This feature can now be found in Preferences->Graphics->Advanced Settings (button) of this Project Viewer. Notice the Maximum Complexity setting is near the top of the dialog. This setting controls what we previously had to change via a couple of Debug Settings (not all of the new Debug Settings in this viewer show up in the wiki list): RenderAutoMuteRenderWeightLimit – Maximum render weight before an avatar is rendere… Continue reading →