I d/l'ded the new SL version, and got on fine. However, SL seems to be taking an inordinate amount of my CPU's processing power. I'm talking 90-95% of power. And I'm running a P4 3.0ghz with 1Gig of RAM.
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JAdmiral Maelstrom
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01-02-2005 14:37
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Lordfly Digeridoo
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01-02-2005 14:45
SL will always use as much processor power as you have. Always.
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Moleculor Satyr
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01-02-2005 15:07
Always always.
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JAdmiral Maelstrom
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Yes, but...
01-02-2005 15:50
...I never had other programs locking up because of it!
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Hiro Pendragon
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01-02-2005 16:02
One day, we hope, some sort of polling function will determine when it's not necessary to seep up 100% CPU in SL... would solve some people's heat problems, for sure.
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Catherine Omega
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01-02-2005 16:09
...I never had other programs locking up because of it! Out of curiousity, are these other programs Flash or Java-based in any way? Try minimizing SL when you switch to those other programs. You should be fine. _____________________
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Rickard Roentgen
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01-02-2005 16:24
if you need to run other things, set sl's priority down to below normal. should let anything run in the background without a problem, and shouldn't hurt sl.
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JAdmiral Maelstrom
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But again...
01-02-2005 17:08
But again... I never had to before, and I never had a problem until this last fix.
I hope the Lindens see this post, and maybe other are having the same prob, so they can look into it. |
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Ardith Mifflin
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01-02-2005 17:24
But again... I never had to before, and I never had a problem until this last fix. I hope the Lindens see this post, and maybe other are having the same prob, so they can look into it. There are a lot of variables. Though I've perceived greater lag in game, the load on my end has not significantly increased. I'm still running SL, PS, and Poser simultaneously without problems. |
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Huns Valen
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01-02-2005 22:17
I noticed it will slow down to a crawl and eventually crash if you minimize it or have it in the background for a few minutes. If you leave it long enough, it crashes with a smartheap error.
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Kurt Zidane
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01-02-2005 22:30
I have beene experencing the same thing. In older vertion I could have a web browser open and switch back and forth. Now the web browers locks up, and the doc fails to move properly. and sl locks up on it self even. for almost mintues at a time. I wounder what going on.
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Kyrah Abattoir
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01-03-2005 06:16
in a general way do not MINIMISE sl
keep it in background minimising cause your system to do ram/swapping and i believe SL dont like it due to some experience with photoshop and poser _____________________
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Shadow Weaver
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01-03-2005 08:12
Odd, My ISP was down last night so havnet been able to do what I normally do but I normaly have the following running.
MSN Messenger Game Voice 3 Browsers Open Paint Shop Pro 9 Note pad and a Calculator Generally doesnt crash for the most part cept when I am riding a scripted object and hit a Sim wall then I have to relog but thats not my puters fault. hehe Shadow _____________________
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Moleculor Satyr
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01-03-2005 09:47
Crashing whilst minimized? What the 'ell? I've never had SL crash on me while it's minimized.
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Aru Opel
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01-03-2005 10:21
I've managed to crash SL in just about every way imaginable... It's possible =) I crash, on average about once every two hours, though it is not totally that consistent. Has been that way since August for me. I think it just reallllly doesn't like certain hardware configurations.
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01-03-2005 11:30
...I never had other programs locking up because of it! To avoid the lock ups, you can set the "newview.exe"'s task priority level to "Below Normal". _____________________
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JAdmiral Maelstrom
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Interesting...
01-03-2005 12:40
When I tries SL on another computer, even with the new version, it only took up 40-50% of my computer's resources.
I'm going to try uninstalling SL, and reinstalling it on my first computer and see if that clears up the problem. |
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Christian Charming
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40-50% cpu!
01-04-2005 06:58
When I tries SL on another computer, even with the new version, it only took up 40-50% of my computer's resources. I'm going to try uninstalling SL, and reinstalling it on my first computer and see if that clears up the problem. Please tell me what your system specs are, I'm topped out at 100% CPU for newview all the time  Course I know why I'm on a laptop LOL |