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Goatman Gomez
Junior Member
Join date: 4 Aug 2004
Posts: 22
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08-11-2004 05:10
Hi,
I’ve just got SL, and it runs in a very jerky fashion. Has anyone got any tips as to how I speed things up? Or pointers to any Mac related SL sites? It sometimes goes as low as 1fps, in areas with lots of prims. Surely it shouldn’t be that slow …. Should it?
MAC
Machine Model: Power Mac G4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
CARD
GEOFORCE 4 MX
Type: display
Bus: AGP
Display Type: CRT
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0171
Revision ID: 0x00a3
ROM Revision: 1091
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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08-11-2004 05:32
try adjusting the display setting in the SL prefrences; start with lowering the draw distance.
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Goatman Gomez
Junior Member
Join date: 4 Aug 2004
Posts: 22
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08-11-2004 09:06
From: someone Originally posted by Strife Onizuka
try adjusting the display setting in the SL prefrences; start with lowering the draw distance. thx  that worked - though I can't see to far now  |
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Taun Patel
Geothermal Madman
Join date: 5 Mar 2004
Posts: 222
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08-11-2004 12:56
Goatman:
Do you have AGP acceleration turned on? If it's not an option (check box is grayed out) try this hack:
AGP HACK!
Okay, first I'd like to say LL in NO WAY condones what I'm about to tell you guys. I figured this out on my own. LL, don't sue me
Legal mumbo jumbo outta the way ... I figured out how to enable AGP for ATI on a Mac. Only those who know for sure their AGP was working should do this.
Warning, it requires a bit of digging in the application package itself, so if you screw up just download a new copy of the viewer.
Locate the Second Life application and Ctrl-click it to get the contextual menu. Choose Show Package Contents. All Mac OS X programs are really just fancy folders the system shows as applications. Dig down to this file: Contents > Resources > featuretable_mac.txt
Open this file with a text editor. Make sure it stays in plain text format or you could seriously hose your system! At the very bottom of the file you'll see this:
PHP:
//
// Disable AGP completely on Macs, since 10.3.4 totally $!@#='s it up.
//
list_ATI
RenderAGP___0___0
Change those 0 0's to 1 1's and you're good to go Save the file, close the scary application contents package and fire up Second Life. Click Preferences and lo and behold the check box ain't gray no mo'!
I'm in nooooo way responsible for what you do with this info. If your system blows up no whining to me.
I accept vehicles and scripts as tribute
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Goatman Gomez
Junior Member
Join date: 4 Aug 2004
Posts: 22
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08-11-2004 14:01
Thanks Taun
I've got the acceleration box checked anyway . Sounds good for anyone else who reads this who hasn't though.
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