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Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
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08-16-2004 16:35
From: someone Originally posted by Vexamus Valentino
Ok, so what you're trying to tell me is that because of this streaming silliness, my computer only FEEDS my video card 10 fps? Have they thought about using Direct 3d instead of GL? Yes. Your computer can only process streamed, compressed content so quickly. It has to uncompress it, orient the data, fire it off to the video card, and get the results back. Another great bottleneck for SL is a large front side bus. There's a reason your computer's CPU also gets 100% utilization with Second Life running. And DirectX would work, if SL was a windows-only program. Unfortunately, it's also a mac client, and a linux one is in the works.
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
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08-16-2004 23:39
From: someone Originally posted by Vexamus Valentino
Ok, so what you're trying to tell me is that because of this streaming silliness, my computer only FEEDS my video card 10 fps? Have they thought about using Direct 3d instead of GL? Yes and no. The computer only feeds the video card at 10fps because there is so much going on that the video card can't do. In a normal game, this stuff would be precomputed by the game maker, then recorded on the game CDs. These precomputations usually take hours to days. Since the SecondLife world is subject to change without notice, the SecondLife servers can't do the precomputation. Because of how long the precomputation takes, your computer can't do it. DirectX won't help. OpenGL and DirectX are basically two different interfaces on the same thing.
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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08-18-2004 09:59
Yes, the cache should be able to handle things better.
There is a lot of new content .. but after being in a sim for awhile, you should pretty much have everything downloaded on your machine.
Btw, do you have the music streaming completely disabled?
Also, are you testing in a competely empty SIM?
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