1.21 RC1 is available

this bug was not in RC0. when using the space navigator joy stick in flycam mode if i select an object and go into Edit my view shifts away to the twilight zone.

The folder and tab icons always get obscured with half-blank icons (which had always been a long-standing problem even in the regular release version). I found a quick fix to it without having to relog, which is to switch the graphics window settings. It usually clears the icon display problems, but in this RC1, if you switch the graphics window settings, it just crashes. Hopefully, you may be able to trace the long-standing graphic display problem, and the crash, and solve both at once.

noticed a weird thing tonight, when sitting and camming around, my hair disappears while zooming in on my avatar. zoom out and the hair comes back.

I have had the same experience as Ed with the disappearing hair. That isn't a show stopper for me, however the bugs with the space navigator joysitck are. I have rarely crashed using this release, but am going back to the normal viewer until the joystick bugs are fixed.

Crashes frequently when in edit mode and the longer I am online the more sluggish it gets.

I'm hoping RC 2 through 15 are actually usable, because thus far, 0 and 1 have less then 5 FPS, and crash like mad, making it more or less impossible to actually play the game =l Yeah, it's optional, but if this is what they have for the future...hoo damn.

Second Life 1.21.0 (95157) Aug 26 2008 16:03:19 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Crashes regularly and shows a whole lot of lag.
I wonder if it has some kind of memory leak?
When I check memory used it says more than 2Gbyte! (that's all my physical memory LOL)

The standard viewer (Second Life 1.20.15 (92456) Jul 18 2008 10:58:42 (Second Life Release)) rarely grabs more than 1Gbyte.

From now on I will only use the RC viewer when I want to compile for Mono

Try downloading and using 1.21.1 Release Candidate viewer rather than 1.21.0.

The newer one seems much better though still a bit unstable as may be expected for a pre-release client.

i cant with 1.21.1 recompile scripts to mono, mono is grayed out
so i guess that mono doesnt work in this viewer

I had similar problems to Dora with RC0, in fact I was hitting 2Gig in about 30Min, but RC1 has been ok memory wise, still higher than 1.19.x but fine for doing my scripting and building work. As for Yvon's problem, compiling to MONO works fine for me under RC1 so it looks like you need to file a Jira issue giving your hardware details.

I normally upgrade my RC when the system insists, but the system isn't insisting, so I wander lost and confused, trying to find the viewer download page. I've been using the viewer from the PreviewGrid, to circumvent the frequent crash program, so have been waiting for this upgrade longer than just the weekend.

http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php

Try Here:
http://release-candidate-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/Second_Life_1-21-1-95603_ReleaseCandidate_Setup.exe

Two comments and or requests:

Please make the Icon for the RC different that the one for the main viewer.

Please change the installer for the RC (and in fact for all future clients) so that creating a desktop icon is optional. Its a small annoyance, but an annoyance never the less.

in editing shift drag to copy is not working, at least after an hour or so of running. will post a jira on it


Memory leak appears to be gone and FPS are about the same as the 1.90 main client. Wish it wouldn't re set my preferences to suggested on a new install it takes time to tweak those!

just a couple crashes in the past 4 hours tp'n buying building clicking.

To day I don't see any mono option in the viewer at all has it been removed? I am talking about: Second Life 1.21.1 (95603) Sep 3 2008 10:09:14 (Second Life Release Candidate)

Okay, since the main viewer seems to hate having me wear objects that are on the ground, I decided to give the RC a serious try.

I have to say that I am digging the ability to save my snapshots in other formats. I miss the "Enter Second Life" button, however.

So far, I'm not noticing many glitches, in either building or texturing, but I haven't exactly had a chance to give a full twirl.

RC1 is much more stable, but I have major problems clicking objects as in RC0.

Yesterday was fine but today it seems to be happening rather a lot.

Sometimes it seems to be a particular object that causes the crash. But upon relogging for the Nth time and clicking the same object it no longer causes the crash. Sometimes there are patterns but a short while later the pattern is gone and other things tend to cause crashes. It does tend to crash more often when I right click objects though.

Perhaps I'm just seeing patterns where none exist.

i can confirm a memory leak that develops afetr about 20 mins, and chews up RAM at about 1KB per second. I sat there and watched it do that, while I sat alone in a private sim.

Playing around with the latest RC. I have noticed many gestures that work fine on previous builds do not trigger in this newest RC. The only way they appear to trigger is when forced using preview from the gesture dialog box. When trying to trigger gestures the name of the gesture appears on screen but the gesture doesn't trigger ... etc /hello shows on screen but no gesture is triggered. I am unsure whether this is multiline gestures or those which start with non-standard symbols etc.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I just found this tonight as well /applause a single line clap and applause is broke along with many of the awsome, fantastic.. well all of them besides basic library gestures.
preview works but typing the /(text does not)

as well another issue I found was maybe it supposed to be a feature ... every time you Keep an item (purchased or given) the inventory window opens this is not a feature at least to me! it really gets in the way!!!

I'm having major issues if I click an object and go into edit mode....crashed 5 times in 3 mins as i was trying to build.
Waited till to day to try again as server issues last night..and Nope..even just right clicking my house door to get in crashed me.
Gestures are not working.
Bring back RC0

I have been crashing in sl for the last 2 weeks even when other people weren't crashing.
So I would like to get rid of the oftional update and go back to a more stable version of sl.
Where do I download the older version? Thanks for any help.
Jael

here hun..... http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php

Major crashing when building. When trying to change/copy textures from one prim to the next and/or changing textures the normal way.

Hi Meade- try out RC2 now, we have turned off the Thread monitoring which consciously created more crashes than normal. RC2 may still crash and the reports are still valuable, but we think the stability will be better than RC1.

To your questions
- yes it definitely helps us even if you send in the same crash over and over. One way we can prioritize the crashes to fix is which are most common. So if something happens all the time when you (for example) open inventory, then we want to know this is happening every 10 minutes to a lot of people!!

- No, the crash reports you send don't have an interactive functionality to respond to "some sort of signature". So it can't tell you "hey, we've seen that before, feel free to jump ship" But your crash report is sent to us as coming from: your avatar name, though. This lets us follow up to any JIRA issue you might file-- if you report in the issue tracker, I crash all the time at this exact location.... then our engineers can find *your* specific crash reports and dig into the painful details!

No personally-identifying information about you or your computer is sent in rhe crash report though. It's just a list of a bunch of settings and the output of the debugging log, showing what code was being processed at the time around the crash.