Help With Preferences

Lately my refresh-redraw times are taking much longer then they use t and I'm having to wait for things to update onscreen.

I'm assuming i tweaked something in the Preferences that may have caused this but don't know.

Can anyone detail how best to set the Preferences or at least give a summary of the issues?



I'm running an iMac G4 - 1 GHz with 768 mb DDR SDRam and GeForce 4MX nVIDIA - 64 MB of VRAM

More detail - not sure is needed:

L2 Cache 256 KB
Bus Speed 133 MHz

Anyone else haveing issues?

I have heard annecdotal reports of 1.1.12 lowering texture load rates and think I have noticed such myself. I believe that LL is continually trying to rebalance the priorities of what they throw down the pipe to you in order to improve gameplay.

You may well find the statistics panel (Alt-1) useful in determining where the slow bits are, but 'twould be more useful to compare across versions. For a well-near incomprehenisble (to a non-Linden) view of what is happening on the client try Alt-2 (but it is pretty in a geeky way).

For improving performance generally, lower your draw distance and particle counts under preferences. Lowering terrain complexity and tree detail also help a bit. Turning off trees entirely (Alt-Shift-3 with debug enabled) helps with obvious costs to the aesthetics and turning of avatar rendering (Alt-Shift-4) removes the most costly rendering task although makes SL even more surreal than it already is.

Thanks Malachi.

I've played with these settings and things sometimes are better, other times not - overall not what it use to be.

How about the Cache Setting?

There are several that could make a difference but I've been real slow to mess with these.

merwan could tou tell me how your GF4MX card has 64MB of VRAM. cause all the 1GHZ machines i ever seen says different (32mb) unless u have the 1.25GHZ then its a GFFX card that is 64.

Here Shucks - am i confused?

ABOUT THIS MAC - at the

PCI/AGP Card info....

GeForce4 MX:

Type: display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0189
Revision ID: 0x00a3
ROM Revision: 2032.2

Display:

Type: display
Display Type: LCD
VRAM (In Use): 64 MB
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 16-bit Color
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes

No im not douting ya i was just wondering , heres mine under the same

GeForce4 MX:

Type: display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0189
Revision ID: 0x00a3
ROM Revision: 2068

Display:

Type: display
Display Type: LCD
VRAM (In Use): 32 MB
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-bit Color
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes

I think i see what got me stumped here, u have the 17" 1GHZ when they were selling the 800mhz 15"iMac, i thought or was told that they put the same video card that urs had into the new 15" upgraded model iMac, but obviously they didnt.

ahh - actually i bought it in May of last year and my dealer mentioned something about having to push the vRam cause of the larger monitor....

not sure though... and that's why im a little concerned about the Beta - hope it's gets better for me - and im first to admit i may not have the configs set as well as they could be...

ahh - actually i bought it in May of last year and my dealer mentioned something about having to push the vRam cause of the larger monitor....

not sure though... and that's why im a little concerned about the Beta - hope it's gets better for me - and im first to admit i may not have the configs set as well as they could be...