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running multiple av's on the same pc
MrCaleb Doobie
pixelated
Join date: 23 May 2008
Posts: 101
02-23-2009 04:02
ok, I feel like a dummy, I can't figure out how to do this, please help...



THX,
Cal
Tyche Shepherd
Harsh Survey Bot Mistress
Join date: 1 May 2007
Posts: 74
02-23-2009 04:12
Right click on your Second Life client shortcut and add select properties

Add the switch -multiple to the end of the Target line


There is a video explaining it here http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Help:Running_multiple_instances_of_the_Second_Life_client
Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 2,180
02-23-2009 06:56
I have tried to do this on occasion and have loged but.... my pc ran so bad and I lagged so bad (turning everything down to lowest) it sure wasn't worth it.
Konu Magic
Certified Insane
Join date: 25 Nov 2008
Posts: 704
02-23-2009 07:00
what I do is run 2 viewers. It's easier than editing the target line and seems to run a bit better. But, I do have 4 gigs of RAM which most likely helps out quite a bit. Remember, SL, no matter what viewer you use, is a memory hog
Ghosty Kips
Elora's Llama
Join date: 2 May 2008
Posts: 2,386
02-23-2009 07:04
You might consider a text client like Metabolt. If you don't need the ava to res it's graphical environment, this is a way to get multiple avas online from your machine with much lower overhead.

http://metabolt.net/
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Milla Janick
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Join date: 2 Jan 2008
Posts: 3,075
02-23-2009 07:11
If you have a dual or quad core CPU, try assigning each viewer to its own CPU core through the Task Manager. That should help smooth things out.
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