Jerky Avatar

Hi everyone, I am running version 1.20.15 and although things are VERY slow to rez, it does eventually, but my avatar is really jerky--can't walk smoothly at all, always a jerk motion and also seems to have a delay when trying to put her in motion. Would anyone know any suggestions??

Any help or info would be appreciated. Below is the info:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood (2394MHz)
Memory: 1022MB
OS Version: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/PCI/SSE2

Thanks,
Ashe

I don't know if this helps or not, but check for things you're wearing that may have animations in them that are competing with your AO. Shoes are a common culprit. I had this same problem and traced it to a new pair of shoes with a walk in them that wasn't cooperating with my AO's walk.

Your graphics card is the lowest version that will run SL, according to the system requirements page. A new video card could work wonders for you.
(I know, not what you wanted to hear, but...)

Ouch, yes, it will be hard to get SL going acceptably with that one.

Some things that can help:

- Don't bother trying the quality and performance slider at anything but the minimum.

- In debug settings, find RenderFarClip (that's the internal name for "draw distance" in the regular graphics panel) and set it lower than the official minimum of 64. 40 or 50 should make movement a lot more tolerable. Less than that drops into "why bother?"

- In the graphics tab of regular settings, flip on the custom button, find the hardware settings, and see if VBO is on. If not, try enabling, that can help some old Nvidia setups. You can try boosting the texture memory in that panel too, but you're not going to have much to add.

- Chop the max particle count down, to maybe 256 or so.

- The usual things offered to help, avatar impostors, bump mapping, lighting detail, don't seem to make that big a difference with these cards. Terrain detail on low can help if you spend a lot of time near the ground, to free up a bit of texture space.

- For the mesh detail sliders, you can get a small boost by sliding those down to low, or the low end of the medium range, but things start looking pretty bad. save that for when moving around is more important than seeing the nice stuff.

A couple of easy things to try, turn your draw distance down and your graphics settings to lowest.

If that helps, then choose custom and set things how you like.

I usually go about in world with most things on lowest ecept avatar rendering cos I want me to look good to me )

I'm happy to trade off frame rate for detail and yesterday met a guy who was complaining that the sim was lagging and he couldn't move. I checked the stats, all the sim stats where fine and I said, it's not the sim, asked him what he was set to and he said ULTRA.

When he set it down to minimum, he was pretty thrilled so sure he might not see the same detail but his overall experience was better.

If there's something I specifically want to see, then i'll just change there and then.

One day I may feel like throwing money at hardware to play a game again but not right now.

Before anything else, try restarting your computer. I've got a fairly good graphics computer and video card, but I still get jerkiness every so often. Restarting seems to clear things up.

Someone smarter than I explained to me why it works this way, but I wasn't smart enough to remember the explanation!

Your headline made me picture a giant piece of beef jerky on legs. Hee.

that GeForce2 will be where your problem is, man that is an OLD graphics card,lol i'm suprised SL even works on it

you can buy at least a cheap GeForce 7300 - 8500 from any pc store for about 50 quid

ebay u can find even cheaper

If that is issue why this happens I have get entire new mother boards and cpu too because I don't have a pci slot.
I got Nvidea Geoforce 6200.
Every now then the same thing happens too it makes me dizzy when the camera starts to jerk around.
I am still using the older required version

Thanks everyone...I have placed an order for a new graphics card

Ashe