Thumbs up thread

Post here if you actually like WindLight's implementation so far.

I find the current release to be much improved over the last incarnation, with only a few minor kinks to work out (it's a First Look viewer, not a final release). My framerates have actually gone up (45 to 60+) with graphics totally maxed + forced AA, my avatar looks good this time around, the bloom/glow effects are fun to play around with (always needs more bloom), the colored water controls will come in VERY handy for a project I have in the works, and it basically looks like nothing is going to be negatively-affected.

Running XFX GeForce 7900GS 256MB, Athlon 64x2 4200+, 1GB DDR2, WinXP (yes, you too can run SL at 60fps with a $500 system).

P.S: THANK YOU for returning the Logitech G15 applet. I saw that in a beta release quite some time ago and was wondering what happened to it.

I'm really liking it so far. I've disabled the Windlight skies though as they keep me at around the same framerate I had on the main viewer, however without them I get a good solid 25 to 30 frames-per-second which is a huge jump from 10-ish

The water however I've kept on (turning it off doesn't seem to do much to my frame-rate) and it looks fantastic, even without reflections.

Very promising update and a very welcome performance boost. Lots of bugs to work out, but all relatively minor things, I'm playing happily on the firstlook viewer as-is and enjoying much better performance to boot!

I am really enjoying it, everything maxed out to the right, ultra-detail on. I liked it too much - I started uploading snapshots of my friends to them to show them what it all looks like to me. Moonlit walks on the beach rock my world now!

Turning on multi-threaded rendering really raised the roof on framerates. More often than not, the FPS meter is burried the moment I turn it on and so far, seems more stable than the mainstream client. Figure that one out. O.o