Comments on: Customized viewer: Surf and live your Second Life

By: Kriti Lynagh

Kriti Lynagh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:37:48 +0000

CSI Rocks! It is what brought me to SL in the first place and I am having a blast!

By: buaya Burger

buaya Burger — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:42:50 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I do not know that at all

By: StormShadow Maertens

StormShadow Maertens — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:33:56 +0000

Well forget VMWARE….that was something I didnt know. Thats easy enough. Time to give this system a test of what its capable of

By: Trebuchet Bracken

Trebuchet Bracken — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:11:34 +0000

I have also heard that if someone is using wireless or dial-up, it can completely screw up the whole place. So on that end, virtual society does affect the one avatar in a more direct, technical/physical manner.

By: Suki Hirano

Suki Hirano — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:08:16 +0000

Turning off those particles doesn’t work that well for me. In fact, I don’t get the pattern for reducing lag at all. Sometimes I have no lag at all yet there are a few people around me, yet sometimes I have tremendous lag even when the entire map is empty.

By: Trebuchet Bracken

Trebuchet Bracken — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:06:00 +0000

I have found turning off render items like particles , water, and trees on at least the regular viewer also helps with lag. And of course, turning down the graphics setting. Just a tidbit there.

I personally have been tentative about any new viewer just because of how unstable SL is on my laptop to begin with.

By: Trebuchet Bracken

Trebuchet Bracken — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:03:13 +0000

Oye, my Sony VAIO would keel over and die if I tried that. I know another trick is to ’switch users’ on Window systems, which probably does the same thing.

By: Suki Hirano

Suki Hirano — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:59:12 +0000

Do you mean overall speed in-world? That would be really nice as some places in SL, especially stores, are really laggy lol.