Here for the base LL viewers, which you'll need first for most of these...
http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php
Nicholaz's blog and downloads...
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/
There are others, like the OnRez version...
http://viewer.onrez.com/
One for the 'specialist' market...
(WARNING NOT WORK SAFE)
http://www.erestraint.com/realrestraint/index.htm
And text-only clients if you just want to log in and IM...
http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/07/19/sleek-the-lightweight-client-for-sl/
I know of more, but I can't think of/google the links right now. At least one more text-only client, and two more for bondage/fetish (BDSL and Cool Viewer).
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Kelli May
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06-04-2008 01:51
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06-04-2008 06:33
Ohhh, integrated video cards suck for SL. My hubby's comp came with a built in x200... which sucked hard for SL. Not that it matters now, since we've long since added a physical card to it as well as a new power supply.
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Jack42 Meredith
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06-04-2008 06:47
ok i have the basic viewer 1.9 something or another... any way. u install nicholaz over it? what does it do for the basic viewer? i dont think im having a problem with what i have but i may be missing out on a much better viewer and dont know it
 are the graphics better? what is the advantage? also if it makes things worse can i reverse it back to what i had? if so how? |
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06-04-2008 07:02
ok i have the basic viewer 1.9 something or another... any way. u install nicholaz over it? what does it do for the basic viewer? i dont think im having a problem with what i have but i may be missing out on a much better viewer and dont know it are the graphics better? what is the advantage? also if it makes things worse can i reverse it back to what i had? if so how? Just follow his instructions. Copy the exe into you SL folder. Coppy the handful of xml files as well. Create a shortcut from his exe and use that to start SL. It may run smoother and more stable, than the LL viewer. If you don't like it, just start sl from the regualr exe and delete the nicholaz one. _____________________
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Kelli May
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06-04-2008 08:29
<snip> are the graphics better? what is the advantage? The graphics are the same but the Nicholaz viewer seems to use machine resources much more efficiently. With the standard viewer I had most of my Windlight settings cut down a fair bit, dropping Anisotropic shading & water reflections, moving the mesh sliders down to about halfway and keeping the draw distance below 200m. Even then I could sometimes lock up and crash if I moved my camera too quickly. With the same machine I now have everything at full apart from Reflection Detail (Static objects only), and I commonly have draw distance above 300m. I'm also running a bigger monitor now... 1920*1200 instead of 1280*768 (and yes, using all those pixels). Moving the camera quickly can cause the odd jitter, but nothing more than a split second and I've yet to crash. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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06-04-2008 08:36
The graphics are the same but the Nicholaz viewer seems to use machine resources much more efficiently. With the standard viewer I had most of my Windlight settings cut down a fair bit, dropping Anisotropic shading & water reflections, moving the mesh sliders down to about halfway and keeping the draw distance below 200m. Even then I could sometimes lock up and crash if I moved my camera too quickly. With the same machine I now have everything at full apart from Reflection Detail (Static objects only), and I commonly have draw distance above 300m. I'm also running a bigger monitor now... 1920*1200 instead of 1280*768 (and yes, using all those pixels). Moving the camera quickly can cause the odd jitter, but nothing more than a split second and I've yet to crash. And if your machine just can't handle Windlight, like mine, you can use the BE-W viewer and not have Windlight at all. _____________________
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Jack42 Meredith
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06-04-2008 10:14
thanx everyone and thanx kelli that is the answer i was looking for
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Boy Lane
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06-17-2008 04:35
I know of more, but I can't think of/google the links right now. At least one more text-only client, and two more for bondage/fetish (BDSL and Cool Viewer). @Kelli The Cool Viewer is not at all a bondage/fetish viewer. It is a rock stable everyday everyone SL viewer with a lot of bugfixes, patches and features the standard Linden viewer doesn't have. Besides that it features the old UI as the Nicholaz viewers that many still prefer. An added bonus is the option to switch it into a RLV mode compatible to Marine Kelley's RestrainedLife. So one doesn't have to install two viewers for the "special occasions"  . This feature is however disabled per default, needs a changing in the preferences and for security reasons also a relog.The Cool Viewer is available in Linux, Windows and Mac versions. Linux: http://sldev.free.fr Windows: http://my.opera.com/boylane Mac: http://radio-boomslang.shacknet.nu/~bb/articles/cool-viewer-mac/ Boy |