1.22 RC10 - Now available

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology

F J Linden:
"I also wanted to touch on a performance issue that we have identified. It may or may not be affecting you (its currently affecting my in world performance), but object rez time seems to be on the increase. It is especially noticeable to me as I log in, and teleport to other regions. My avatar, and other avatars, seem to take far longer to rez than I had experienced prior to December. We have traced the performance degradation to something in mid to late December, and have started investigating some of the potential causes. This data seemed to sync up with our migration of infrequently used assets to S3 (bulk storage) and off of the Isilon clusters, but after some detailed analysis, this was determined not to be a root cause. We have a number of other theories, and are working aggressively to get to the bottom of the problem and correct it. So, why am I bringing up a quality issue in a blog post that has focused almost exclusively on stability? Well, beyond just keeping the grid operational, we need to also be driving quality and performance of your in world experience, with rez time and lag being at the top of the list."

I hope techs are still working on http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8818 before a new viewer goes live. It's marked critical but I haven't seen a fix for it yet in the RC.

If frogs had the wings they all hoped for, they wouldn't bump their little butts all the time....

There is only one true guiding force in SL and no one outside of Linden has any idea what that is. The big problem is that it appears no on inside of Linden has any idea either.

Has anyone noticed the horrible bounding box / collision boundries issues present again since 1.25.5 server was pushed out, or is just me that can not walk on sculpts or get any physical prim closer than .2 m to another one?

DRD

i just wanna be able to see the ground under water again and NOT a load of black.

I just encountered a very weird and annoying bug, and wanted to know if anyone else has had this issue before I go trying to figure out the JIRA. It just started happening today, even though I've been using RC10 since its release. When I open the Search window, do a search, and then close the window, my framerate drops down to less than 1. Prior to this, my framerate is around 30-40. If I manage to TP somewhere after my framerate drops below 1, it corrects itself.

I can't reproduce this every time, but I have noticed that, even if it doesn't kill my framerate, it does cause a temporary total freeze that lasts for several seconds. The freeze part is something I've noticed for a while now; the killed framerate is something new, and I'm pretty sure they're related.

Viewer 1.22.10 (RC10)
OS: Linux 2.6.27.13
Graphics: nVidia 8600M-GS, 180.11 nVidia driver.

Not sure what video you are running, but when I was having problems with the underwater all black, I rolled back my vid drivers a bit and it cleared up. I was using a NVidia 7600GT card and I rolled back to the 94.24 drivers and everything looked great. I noticed no difference in performance at all.

There seems to be a problem in opening any daughter window that accesses the database. People searcher, texture picker, new inventory window.... the client can freeze up before (most common) or after you open the new window and hang for 5 to 20 seconds or more. I notice the hang and delay most often on opening these windows, but sometimes on closing as well. Usually one or the other, not both. It is in JIRA as far as I know, but since it has been in the client since 1.21 was the RC, I don't have any hopes of seeing it fixed anytime soon.

Voice keeps flaking out on me, the talk button doesn't seem to either mute me when un highlighted, not let me talk when it is highlighted or it's greyed out but I can hear people fine.

Make sure that your settings under Voice Chat > Device Settings are set to your sound card, or usb headset, what ever you are using, and not set to "default".

Also, for those of you who use applications like Audacity or other audio programs, please make sure when you close them out, that they are not set to "Stereo Mixer" under their record settings. This is one of the major causes of the echo problems in voice, beside people using speakers of course.

i dunno how to roll it back... i havwe only jsut bought it so the first driver i have for it is the one it is using now

im using NVidia 7600GS

Use the link below to the NVidia Website Alternative Drivers page. Here you can download the older archived drivers as well as the latest and beta drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us


Hope this helps.

I noticed some weirdness with voice chat, too. It keeps turning itself back on after I uncheck it.

didnt work.. oh well.. thanx anyway