[freeroleplay] Second Life

[Ricardo Gladwell]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:01 +0000, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Got it. I noticed the graphics would sometimes change, so I don't
> know whether they were doing something funny with animated GIFs - I
> have animations switched off to reduce the annoyance of adverts.
> 
> The current version of the Linux client does work. Do you have 3D
> working on your machine?

3D works fine for other games, including the SL client but it doesn't
seem to like switching to full-screen mode and the graphics are jittery
in windowed mode. I'd troubleshoot it but I can't see how to verbose the
program output and I can't log onto the SL forums with a non-credited
account.

> It's very slow, but then maybe I'm just used to fast first person
> shooters like Unreal Tournament.

Anything in the command line output?

As I recall, SL has a unique caching mechanism for storing and rendering
models. At first it may indeed appear to be running slowly but its
actually the caching system catching up with the world. Sometimes after
a few minutes things calm down.

Kind regards...

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Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free RPG Community
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