With 24 hours of operating data, the 1.5.6 release seems to have improved average frame rates by about 12%. Hopefully many are enjoying this. We track the reported frame rates of the client software, so we can carefully analyze what everyone is seeing (at least on average).
We made improvements in particular to the performance of the 3D renderer under cases where avatars have a large number of attachments.
Bragging spreadsheet attached (which also shows how frame rate varies over the course of a day, for the so interested).
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Philip Linden
Founder, Linden Lab
Join date: 18 Nov 2002
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11-05-2004 14:01
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
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11-05-2004 14:02
Woo!
Now you just need to get Sim performance equal across the board, and you're set for life!  _____________________
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,860
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11-05-2004 14:32
can we please get this and the economic info in some other format? i can't afford microsoft office but i would like to see this.
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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11-05-2004 14:35
can we please get this and the economic info in some other format? i can't afford microsoft office but i would like to see this. OpenOffice, which is free, can open Excel files. If you are on Windows, you can also download this for free: Excel 97/2000 viewer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4EB83149-91DA-4110-8595-4A960D3E1C7C&displaylang=EN _____________________
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Marker Dinova
I eat yellow paperclips.
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 608
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11-05-2004 14:46
With 24 hours of operating data, the 1.5.6 release seems to have improved average frame rates by about 12%. Hopefully many are enjoying this. We track the reported frame rates of the client software, so we can carefully analyze what everyone is seeing (at least on average). We made improvements in particular to the performance of the 3D renderer under cases where avatars have a large number of attachments. Bragging spreadsheet attached (which also shows how frame rate varies over the course of a day, for the so interested). I knew it! I knew there was an improvement! Last night I felt like I had upgraded my DSL... _____________________
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The difference between me and you = you - me. add them up and we have 2The 2difference 2between 2me 2and 2you = 0 2(The difference between me and you) = 0 The difference between me and you = 0/2 The difference between me and you = 0 I never thought we were so similar  |
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,860
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11-05-2004 14:49
thank you Cristiano.
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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11-05-2004 15:02
Yeah, now all we need is a good caching solution and we're set!
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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11-05-2004 15:05
Dont mean to rain on your parade here, but an increase of 12% means that you go from 10 FPS to 11.2 FPS - w00t
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,860
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11-05-2004 15:07
baby steps Eggy. baby steps.
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Ace Cassidy
Resident Bohemian
Join date: 5 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,228
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11-05-2004 15:10
can we please get this and the economic info in some other format? i can't afford microsoft office but i would like to see this. OpenOffice They have a nice freeware app that does just about everything you'd want MS-Office to do, including reading and display .xls files. - Ace _____________________
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Salazar Jack
Nova Albion native
Join date: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,105
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11-05-2004 15:18
baby steps Eggy. baby steps. Can we compromise and have Godzilla baby steps? _____________________
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Djiket Nyak
Join date: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 116
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11-05-2004 16:00
I take this into great consideration. I am running on a 533 MHz and the load time is sooo much quicker before the login screen. It used to take about 45 seconds, now it only take 10 seconds. Much improved.
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Catherine Cotton
Tis Elfin
Join date: 2 Apr 2003
Posts: 3,001
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11-05-2004 16:06
Thanks Philip
 Also FYI excel documents can be opened in FrontPage 2000 you just need to update using disc. 1. Cat _____________________
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Jack Digeridoo
machinimaniac
Join date: 29 Jul 2003
Posts: 1,170
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11-05-2004 16:12
W00t!
"Rebuild" and "RenderGeom" are the slowest things I see when I hit alt-2. (I only see rebuild when my view goes from not many objects to a lot of objects...) Anything I can do to speed those up? _____________________
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Chage McCoy
Aerodrome Janitor
Join date: 23 Apr 2004
Posts: 336
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11-05-2004 16:27
So now we know what Philip does all day. he sits in his office, tinkering with excel and making pretty graphs!
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Emmy Guillaume
Breaker of Items Scripted
Join date: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 67
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11-05-2004 16:52
I notice a definite difference. I'm no longer leaving my attachments at the Telehub.
TY Phillip! ::MUAH!!::: _____________________
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Oneironaut Escher
Tokin White Guy
Join date: 9 Jul 2003
Posts: 390
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11-05-2004 20:47
my average simfps dropped by more than half
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
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11-05-2004 20:52
my average simfps dropped by more than half Been consistently that way all day.This thread's about client FPS, unfortunately. _____________________
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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11-05-2004 21:09
my average simfps dropped by more than half Been consistently that way all day.Sim FPS is the same for everyone in that sim, as it's a measure of simulator performance and doesn't have anything to do with the client. The reason your sim's FPS has dropped is likely because it was assigned a slower server. While all resident-populated sims run on their own computer, each with P4 CPUs, some of them are substantially better. The higher the sim number, (look for the server address in Help > About) the newer and better the sim hardware is. Also, remember that sim performance tends not to be terribly noticable, aside from the actual numbers. Bellow 100fps, however, things start to feel pretty sluggish. Above that, it's much more difficult to tell just on "feel" alone. _____________________
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
Join date: 7 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,448
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11-05-2004 22:58
I notice a definite difference. I'm no longer leaving my attachments at the Telehub. TY Phillip! ::MUAH!!::: Really? I left attachments left, right and center when teleporting yesterday. That seemed no better. _____________________
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