Recently, although we all know sl seems to have no love for Macs, there seems to be issues I will attempt to describe. I have now tried the latest Linden viewer, Snowglobe, Emerald and Kirsten S18.
There are times when changing clothing that while it may appear on your screen others will say you are naked. Sometimes the clothing just will not show up at all. This may last a day or a few days or several days. At times it seems prim articles of clothing will show up but other parts will not. It even shows in your inventory window that the clothing is worn.
Next we come to avatar rendering. Sometimes others will be gray and stay gray for extended periods of time. Others tell me I am gray to them while I appear normal on my screen. If the others go into appearance they will suddenly clear and appear normal. Same with buildings and objects, they appear gray and may rez after some time.
Teleporting can sometimes fail but if I move a few meters it seems to work then.
With some of the viewers I seem to freeze for a few moments getting what I call the spinning wheel of death, the beach ball icon. After it unfreezes most times I can go on as normal. Sometimes I will crash after this.
I have tried changing my preference settings with little change in my play. I feel that with all the viewers I have tried you'd think one of them would be more stable. Right now I think the Kirsten viewer is working pretty good. Emerald seems to give me more issues with freezing and gray avatars.
I use two different computers to play in sl. A G5 at work and at home a MacBook Pro. Both are loaded with Ram and the MacBook is the top of the line. The G5 I use is maybe two or three years old. My connection on the G5 is high speed DSL and the MacBook is on a satellite connection which is much slower of course. While the DSL is faster I still have some of the same issues.
After all of this can anyone help?