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How To get a Faster Second Life

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…ality are competing goals. The better the render quality is, the worse the performance. All tweaking is about arriving at the best 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… Continue reading →

Graphics Tweaking for Second Life

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…n your video card controls. Those terms above are listed in order of worse performance to better performance. Super-Sampling is a bit of a brute force method. The newer types of AA have links and provide AA more efficiently. One has to do some trial and error testing to see how AA performs on their hardware. More Video RAM improves AA performance. Newer video cards have better, faster AA processing algorithms. UPDATE: (9/2011) There are new ways t… Continue reading →

KirstenLee Viewer s20(30) Released – Review

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…apabilities that most of us don’t need to use. However, they are great for tweaking your viewer for performance. Niran´s Guide for Kirstenviewer is awesome for figuring out things. But I find that much of what Niran is telling me is not working on my Core-2 Duel CPU and 8800 GTS nVidia. Niran is keeping the post updated so it is an excellent reference. What follows is what I’ve experienced and found. Performance Panel In the Menu -> Me -> Preferen… Continue reading →

Second Life Performance: Render Muting

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…ng it I could see that it made a difference. Whatever the case, if you are tweaking for performance, having RenderVolumeLODFactor higher than 1.5 doesn’t make sense and 1 is probably better. Think of the higher setting as turning off more optimization to get better image render at FPS cost. Another factor is how close your camera is, as that affects the LoD value being used by the camera for any specific item in view. I still could not relate what… Continue reading →

Network Performance Tip

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…rious network speed testing sites, like www.speedtest.net, to test network performance. But, seldom are residents told about tweaking their DNS resolvers. So, here is some information on tweaking your DNS settings. DNS Benchmark Tool DNS? DNS stand for Domain Name System or Domain Naming System. This is the part of the Internet that allows you to type in Internet URL’s as names like; blog.Nalates.net, Amazon.com, and SecondLife.com. The service th… Continue reading →

Kirsten Viewer Install Tips

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…or 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 explain what these do Niran provides images with a setting on and off so you can see it…. Continue reading →

Dolphin Viewer 1.5.37.3627 (?New? Yes) Released

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…e of things can be completely unacceptable. For those special uses and for performance tweaking Linden Lab included a setting that allows one to specify what level of LoD to use. This allows those with high and low performance computers to be set to give the user their preferred experience. The problem with the standard setting is that it affects all things. The setting in Dolphin is specifically for sculpties. This allows one to use the optimum L… Continue reading →

NVIDIA Settings 2016

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…If you want to know more about what these settings do, see my old Graphics Tweaking for Second Life. Change the settings, start the viewer, and look at the performance (Ctrl-Alt-1 a toggle, again to turn off). Use the setting that works best for your computer. All the parts make for a complex balancing act. Slow RAM and fast video require a different setup than fast RAM and limited video RAM. You aren’t going to break anything by changing the NVID… Continue reading →