Some fresh observations

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It has been a nightmare for me, tho I am patient to wait it out. Textures are completely borked, my personal FPS is down to 10% of what it was pre update, and a couple of my sims FPS are fluctuating all over the place. Hopefully a few patches will fix all these soonish

Had a bit of CPU fluctuation Hiro, but thankfully it has settled down, though I've only had a maximum of 4 AV's in the sim yet...

But your personal fps sounds dire.

I did get a lot of trouble until I set my 'Drop Draw Distance if FPS' from 5 to 0.
Not only did it bring more fuzzy grey blocks into view but it increased my fps too - doesn't make sense, but there you go.

I'm still blundering around at about 25% of my old fps with my previous gfx settings, except for I used to have Drop Draw at 5, with that set, I get down to what you are experiencing.

You might give it a try?

ah these fluctuations are with just me in the sim, zapping up and down between 5 and 45. Informed LL yesterday, hopefully they will get a chance to look at it soon, tho am sure theyre pretty loaded with probs atm.

Have tried everything with draw distance etc. Used to get 70-250 FPS at 512m draw, now i get ~25 FPS at 128m

edit to add: 25 may not sound terrible, but when you're used to managing the plots at 2-300m, it's a nightmare, the FPS is too low to draw that high. Also, thats in a sim on a top class server.

The network tab always seemed to suggest that SL doesn't spend more than 1000 kbps of your bandwidth at any time. My bandwidth meter doesn't usually fluctuate much either, come to think of it. It's not really something I watch so I can't even give you anything anecdotal.

Also, another thing. You are having to deal with transatlantic routing and latency issues. I'm sure that's going to leave you with shoddier performance than someone with much fewer hops to SL's colo (like me, living in the continental US).

This is an issue that has been discussed before. I'm not sure what solutions would be available, besides sharding the grid into different international regions. I'm not sure that's something that's currently in LL's vision.

Listen, I'm not in disagreement that these situations suck. It's just that I'm not of the mind it's worth being upset about -- mainly because it's not something I expect is going to change until competitive advantage requires it to change. I'm sorry if I'm flip with you about it -- it's just so damn hard to resist the temptation.

Bah! Just flew (AK! Help - stop - OUCH!) back from the island and arrived by a pond, which was fully rezed before, to find it surrounded by grey blobs rather than water plants. Couple of minutes to rez too.

This is really silly. I can't figure out what's going on. *shrug* And what if I could, it's not in my hands to fix it anyway.

I wonder what all the newbies who opened accounts since Midnight GMT Sunday are making of this?

A *smart* company would have disabled new users joining while this mess was in progress...

This is BORING, I have things to do, but I can't move properly to do them and I'm really getting fed up with sorting inventory.

Anyone got any views on the sanity or otherwise of configuring a network vendor system under the present conditions?

Don't do it. The grid may go down to accomodate another patch sometime soon. Your objects may need to be reconfigured if that happens.

I feel for you, Tompson bare, pre-update used to be good for 3.5kfps, immediately prior to the update and fully loaded it managed 1.3kfps, of course the figures are meaningless now with the 'new system of measuring performance' (and how many times have you seen THAT one trotted out in RL to cover up a massive drop in real performance?), but it certainly wasn't a slow sim.

Now it's like being on a permanent shopping trip.

Out of interest Hiro, what hardware setup was giving you those figures you quote? Sounds very nice.

You should chat to people out there using really borderline hardware, Beige G3 Macs, Powerbooks, low end PCs. I have and almost all of them are thrilled by the performance of 1.7!

It's looking a lot like whatever LL have done has improved things marginally for those with low end/old hardware while at the same time crippling those of us with decent kit. I shall not make further comment as I'm sure you are feeling much the same about things...

Thanks - thought not.

Oh well, back to inventory. One thing, when/if this gets sorted I'm going to have one of the best organised inventorys in SL!

How does one empty one's cache?

coco

Well in 1.7 you can do it in the preferences under general I believe there is a button for it now. Otherwise navigate to c:\documents and settings\yourcomputername\application data\secondlife\cache\

Delete all files found in the cache folder.

No - my computer is over 3 years old and since 1.7 SL is unplayable. (Haven't checked yet today.)

coco

That is useful to know - although it will actually be found under Network rather than General.

Thanks Selador, am at work and didn't have the software handy.

LOL. Well, now that you mention it... Back when I joined SL, we didn't HAVE this new-fangled streaming audio, people would chop their 50-cent songs (wait we didn't have 50 Cent then either) into 10-second WAV's and thread them together, you'd see what looked like record stores and you'd click on the disc/record and it would take 1/2 an hour to load all the sounds and play. Oh, and "Uphill, in the snow, both ways".