Display problem

Last week my pc crashed pretty badly...everything on my hard drive was lost and I had to reinatll all the software from scratch.

What I want to know is that since Ive got back in to sl everything seems to have noticeably jagged/sawtoothed edges.


Ive reinstalled the latest drivers for my video card and played around with the graphic menus on the preferences but its made no difference and further more I see the jagged edges on snapshots down loaded to my hard drive to.

Has anyone else noticed this or is it simply something that was there before I crashed which seems more noticeable now ??

Does the snapshot faccility record images as my video card sees them ?

Last week everything was lost on my hard drive. The worst thing is that I had 900 snapshots taken in sl since I started which have all gone...hard drive recovery software that I tried was hopeless.

I am wondering though if by any chance snaps that I download to my hard drive may be stored in Lindens somewhere as they wind their way to me?

Im pretty much resigned to having lost my pics but if anyone has any ideas ?


Thanks.

Hit <alt>-<cntrl>-<D> to bring up your client debugging menu. I am not home on my machine so I cannot get exact instructions to you, but there is a menu choice under "Client" I think that is entitled "High Resolution Snapshots To Disk". Turning that on will allow you to dump high quality/resolution snapshots into a directory on your machine . If you are running nVidia hardware for video - try turning on the manager's quality control manually and setting "high quality" rather than "Let application decide". ATI has a similar control in the Catalyst drivers that will allow for a single click "upgrade" to high quality graphics.

Good luck!

were you running the new viewer before the crash? if not, it might be the new one you are seeing, with Windlight. I haven't dl'd that one yet, but i've been reading that it makes objects appear oddly and that builders are going to be required to 'rebuild' to make up for the funky situation.

wish i could be more help.

What you need to turn on in your graphics driver settings is called Anti-Aliasing, often abbreviated as AA or sometimes FSAA (for Full Screen Anti-Aliasing). AA exists for one reason and one reason alone: to smooth out jaggies like you describe.

Often you'll have options for 4x, 8x, 16x etc - bigger is better (but may reduce performance - test and find the balance that works for you and your computer). Some cards also have a dynamic or "adaptive" AA that is self-adjusting depending on performance from moment to moment.

Also if your drivers give you option for both Direct3D and OpenGL, remember that SL uses OpenGL. If you see jaggies in games too, you may need to make the same adjustments for Direct3D.

I reinstalled my drivers and it didnt seem to work then strangely after the regions were restarted earlier tonight - marvellous - view no jagged edges nothing I dont know what worked - the new drivers or the restart.


I'll have to look for the anti aliasing control and others if it happens again. thanks for the advice.