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How to run second life smoothly and at its best?

ZB Loon
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Join date: 21 Jun 2008
Posts: 1
06-22-2008 22:24
I know there is always lag. But since I am on a very fast fiber connection - I should have little to complain about even though I still have lag cause thats just the way it is.

The question I have is what system specs are really needed to run second life in such a way that I wouild not have to worry so much about waiting for things to render, buildings to load and people to appear etc. I know that I cannot afford the bigggets nVidia or ATI card out there but after running it for a long time on a 6600GT - it got so hot that the damn thing died. It was an old card - but the fan kept failing and running SL didn't help it stay cool either. So I am about to buy a new card. Right now maybe just a 7900GS to get me by. But I'd hope it would be just a little faster in SL.

I also have the graphics set to the second setting up from low. It is awful how I see peope in the background jagged and pixelated - so anyway. Putting aside video card and systm requirements. What other software couild be the issue. Oh and I also only had one GIG of memory - I'll need to take that to 2 or maybe evne 4!

My specs are now (until I can afford an SLI system)
P4 3.0
Asus A8 Deluxe
XFI Gamer Sound Blaster Card
1 GIG of Memory 2 x 512k Samsungs
XP PRO

I am sure there are threads out there somplace that might help with some of my questions. But I am sure that there are people out there that really want to enjoy this game but don't have the patience to wait for rendering.

If anyone else has a system similar to mine and doesn't have these issues - let me know what your full system specs are - maybe that would help me.

Thanks!
Robot Poultry
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Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 208
06-22-2008 22:35
How much can you spend on upgrades (because you should get another gig of memory, too)?
Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
06-22-2008 23:09
those awefull jaggie avs can be turned off in the options menu

under graphics, custom (next to the slider) avatar place holders (or something along those lines)

and with a gig of ram every bit of running software causes issues, look next to your clock, nvidia control pannel?

on XP goto start run and type in msconfig

on startup you will see alot of crap, some of it is needed some isnt, start by identifying whats running next to your clock, most of that is not neccacary, winamp agents, quicktime agents (course you need this to see video in sl) aol, compaq updates, blah blah blah its all sucking down ram and cpu resources