I want to speed up my SL experience. To that effect, is it possible to switch off QuickTime? If so, what will be the consequences?
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Increasing speed -- turn off QuickTime? |
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YekaterinaStankova Sirbu
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07-26-2007 11:26
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Brash Zenovka
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07-26-2007 11:29
I don't believe you need quicktime unless you are watching movies in SL, do you? In any case, sometimes programs add a lot of unnecessary gunk to startup on your computer and you can certainly toggle off anything it added to launch at startup. Quicktime shouldn't be running all the time.
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Jessica Elytis
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07-26-2007 11:32
Though you can prolly get better results from increasing RAM (SL is a memory hog) or adjsuting prefernces.
Might help the techies if you list what your PC stats are and what major prefernces you use. ~Jessy _____________________
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YekaterinaStankova Sirbu
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07-26-2007 11:36
The reason I hit on QuickTime is that when I start up the SL viewer, it seems to spend about five minutes "initializing QuickTime." It's not something that's running constantly on my computer. How do I set it up so that SL doesn't automatically initialize QuickTime?
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Brash Zenovka
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07-26-2007 11:42
You might make sure that under "Preferences: Audio & Video" that you have turned OFF the option to play streaming music & video, I am not sure if that is the option that is causing SL to try to start it at launch ...
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Crystal Falcon
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07-26-2007 11:44
How do I set it up so that SL doesn't automatically initialize QuickTime? I've never tried it but from Nicholaz's blog... Use the startup option -noquicktime _____________________
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Brash Zenovka
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07-26-2007 11:47
Nice find, that looks like exactly what they want.
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YekaterinaStankova Sirbu
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10-25-2007 12:55
I just switched to Mac. How do I use these options? |
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Robustus Hax
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10-25-2007 12:58
I may be wrong, but Quicktime won't bog the system down if you're not playing video
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StormCrow Dagger
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10-25-2007 14:19
You can use -noquicktime on startup to keep it from initializing quicktime, which will speed up the loading time for SL. However if you then actually try to play any video content, SL will crash on you.
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