How improve my SL experience?

Hi to all.

I would like to improve my SL experience, try to set all graphic options, but I cant do that.
Well, I've think to upgrade my system RAM, graphics RAM, and/or graphic card too.

But I dont undertstand anything about that.

Well, I've run some analizers and some benchmarks, I would like someone here read, to send me suggest about what kind of action I can do. Only a thing: I thing I've a good PC and I dont want to change it

System Info: http://www.tamtando.com/tmp/systeminfo/si.xml
Benchmark results (with 1024x76: http://www.tamtando.com/tmp/test001.xls

Sorry, some word are in italian but... I'm Italian!

Thank you very much!

Ram you can never have enough, good to see someone who ask and got entire spec handy for others to view

That vid card is what i call "bob bob" works, but so so, SL demand on pc is getting ludicrus now (speeelling?), i see no diffrence from my best pc to my way worse one.

4000+ people online in SL, it'll crawl no matter, am i getting fed up with the poor performance ? yes, do i hate SL no... not really, just wich it would start behaving ~enter the world of gray~

Im a pc dork so i have pretty powerfull pc's around me, and the performance in SL just keep going down.

Note they sure fixed several REALLY annoying bugs from way back, ghosting attachments anyone?

shrug, 1024-2048 ram is handy for SL thats for sure, vid card is so so, faster cpu you have better its for SL since it does seem to do most on software side.

thats about the same spec i've got.
make sure you're net conection is running at full speed. turn down graphics options like, terrain detail, objects, trees etc.
my own advie would be buy an NVIDIA graphics card with 256mb of ram or more. the ATI cards seem to have problems with SL. i think its the openGL.

What hell you said?
I dont understand always english. Also, you use some new words. Well, I dont understand any of your message, except a little hate against SL... or not?
Well, is not that the point.

Anyway, thank you

My connection is dedicated to SL (except, sometimes, to read here and mail).
I dont want turn down options. My answer is to turn up!



Uhm... Radeon cards are NVIDIA... not?

Uhm... No. Radeons are ATI cards, Geforces are nVidia.

Sorry. My graphics knowledge is inexistent!

What kind of bus is better? AGP or PCI Express?

Thank you

Pci-e is the new standard now , but if you dont have a motherboard that support it, its agp ,

Cant say i see much diffrence in agp/pci-e pc's i have nearly the same video cards to.

With Pci-e you can have sli though, agp is a old faithfull stubborn still wont go away

You need to find what you have to upgrade, some motherboards dont even have agp/pci-e.

Just a note, SL is slow its not just you, but you dont really need very high fps for this um.. "game"

Thank you.

I've think I've both AGP and PCI-E. Instead, I've only PCI-E (one 1x and one 16x).
I know is not important to have high fps, but I want high rendering.
Torley say me he can set all option up, with same bandwith than me and about same system configuration. But difference can be videocard chipset: I've ATI, Torley have nVidia (Torley dont speak about his videocard type): /invalid_link.html

Well, I think to understand wath solution can be better for me.
This can be also a way to introduce me to some 3D game. I've said: I'm never interested about games, but I would like to try someone.

Thank you

I think Torley was using a 5000 series video card from nVidia at one point. Torley might be using a 6 or 7k series now, not sure.

Anyways, nVidia is MUCH better than ATI for SL. Also, your processor needs to balance the load well, and low-speed DSL (256kb) connections tend to suffer horribly.

Your CPU will have more influence on SL performance than any other component. Think of SL as more of a high-end movie special effects editing system instead of a game when it comes to how SL works.

I have a store that sells computers and parts for Lindens and PayPal transfers, or combinations of both. Check the post in the classifieds for more information. I'll be putting the actual purchase objects in this weekend, but for now you can IM or email me at [email]CorvusTech@gmail.com[/email] for a quote.

My machines and components sold through SL have SL in mind. To give you an idea, I get about 50FPS with occasional hiccups on my personal rig, and it's not as fast as my top end machine I sell.

Also, if you visit the location in my classifieds, they're a bit hard to read but the store walls have hints and tips to improve your SL performance. I'd rather you get the best performance possible out of your rig now before having to buy new components or a new machine, but if it comes down to that, keep CorvusTech in mind!

My current graphics card is NVIDIA:

eVGA e-GeForce 7800GT CO

Interesting question guys:

Why are his specs listing as 1008MB Ram and not 1024? he dosent seem to be running with an integrated video card... am I missing something stupid here, or is it just the benchmark misreading something?

Otherwise... thats really strange... maybe needs looked into.

Its probably the benchmarking software. Note where it also says there is 125mb of total local video memory.