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Firestorm Experience 8/21 – Update:

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I’m playing a lot with Firestorm Viewer these last couple of days. After a bit more use I am finding a few more things.

~ Quite Happily Stranded ~
~ Quite Happily Stranded ~

Yesterday I wrote:

After 30 minutes or so I start to get mini freezes and black screens. I get that with the Linden viewer too… this may be me and not the viewers.

I am seeing a few more people experiencing the same problem in FS Support. One was Windows 10 user who’s anti-virus was apparently the problem causing 100% disk use while the viewer ran. In Windows 10 the Task Manager has a resource monitor built in. You can see how busy the CPU, disks, network, and etc are. So, it is easy to check to see if you have resource over-use as a problem or performance issue. 

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Firestorm Experience

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I have gotten to use the viewer (4.7.3 x64) for a bit now. There is too much new stuff to step through item by item. So, this my limited experience take. Regardless of whether I like the viewer, its having Viewer Managed Marketplace  (VMM) compatibility makes it a must have for many Firestorm users.

Firestorm Logo
Firestorm Logo

Download and Install – Nothing unusual. All smooth and no problems. I did do an uninstall before adding the new version.

Performance – It is too early to say, but in general my Frames Per Second (FPS) are about the same as with the Linden 3.8.3 version, provided I use similar settings. I am finding it seems a bit faster in areas where I am alone. It has problems in areas built with heavy mesh use, but so does the Linden viewer.

After 30 minutes or so I start to get mini freezes and black screens. I get that with the Linden viewer too… this may be me and not the viewers. I notice that once the memory use at launch (300+/-k) climbs into the 2 GB range I start having problems.

Some users are having problems with no-copy avatar skins. They don’t render. A default Ruth skin renders. It is not very many. So, it is likely a hardware related problem.

The chat panel no longer has a minimize button. It is either open or closed.

Firestorm Update Week 34

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The Firestorm team has a new release out, version 4.7.3-47323. It is the viewer Managed Marketplace capable viewer. The team has post up on the blog: Firestorm Viewer 4.7.3-47323 Release! They explain they had some problems getting this version out and it is therefore a bit latter than they wanted. But, it is here now. 🙂

Rise of the Dragons, Opus I
Rise of the Dragons, Opus I

The VMM news is good. Also Experience Tools, attachment fixes, and other problems are added or fixed.

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Cool VL Viewer Updates Week 32

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August 1st Henri updated the Cool Vl Viewer. It now handles:

  • Provides full Experiences and Experience Tools support !
  • Provides Avatar Hover Height support !
  • Provides Marketplace Listings support !
  • Provides global clothing layers limit (60 in total instead of 5 for each of the 12 types) support !
  • Provides CEF3 media plugin support ! (this is still work in progress, available only in the experimental release)

CoolVLViewer-1.26.14.2 is the current version. It comes in Linux and Windows flavors. Download

Second Life™ News Week 31-32

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Other bit of news from the Third Party Developer’s meeting (7/31):

RSS Feed for Grid Status

RSS feed for Grid Status is moving to new platform. The URL will not change just the format is changing from RSS1 to RSS2. But, if you read the status pages, the change is visually significant.

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The setup is said to be coming soonish, but seems to be working now. A temp URL will let TPD’s test the feed. See: http://beta.status.secondlifegrid.net which redirects me to https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Status-Grid/bg-p/status-blog. 

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