What Do I Do Now???????????

I Have Been In Secondlife A Year Now With Every Upgrade Since Thin I Have Had Nothing But Trouble After The First Few I Have Talked To Live Help And Had All Settings Down To 0 Just To Be Here And Do Nothing But Chat For Thats All You Can Do Finly I Broke Down Bought A New Comp Yay Every Thing Was Great I Upgraded My Acount Bought Land Now I Know The $50 I Pay A Month For My Membership And Land Terr Isent Nothing To Sl But Its Alot To Me To Pay For A Game Each Month And Now Well Iam Right Back To Where I Was Befor With Every Update Since I Got My New Comp All Drivers Updated And Every Thing Well With In Sl Specs To Run The Game After Each Upgrad I Get Told To Lower My Settings And Very Rudly At Times As Well All Setting So Low I Can Do Anything But Stand In One Spot And Chat Cant See My Land Way I Used To Like Trees And Grass And Particales All Which I Could Befor Ok Now All Setting So Low Sl Just Isent Fun Anymore And I Refuse To Buy Another Comp Is Secondlife Just For The Rich Who Have Nothing To Do But Spend Money On Another Comp After Each Upgrad Like I Said I Know Loseing My 50 A Month Wont Hurt Sl One Tiny Bit But How Many Of Thous 50 A Month And More Can Sl Aford To Lose Cause Of These So Here It Is My Finly Plea For Help And Dont Tell Me To Lower My Settings They Wont Go No Lower What Do I Do Now???????????"

PS MOTHER BOARD ASUS 7V880 GRAPHIC CARD NVIDIA FX 5500 256 RAM WITH 1 GIG RAM FOR COMP SERVER IS SBC YAHOO SPEED AT 5.065 MBPS AMD SEPRON(TM) 2800 2.00GHZ

I've moved your post to Technical Issues where it can be discussed further, as SL Answers isn't the right place. You can also contact support for help.

I really hate to be a forum sniper but that was an VERY hard post to read. Run on sentences, no real punctuation to speak of, and Having To Capitalize Every Word was very distracting. However lets see if I can help.

First of all, no you really DO NOT need a very advanced PC to run Second Life. The machine you have is rather mundane, but I have slower PCs than yours, that run SL just fine.

At most I'd suggest uninstalling SL, and reinstall your video card drivers, your chipset drivers, and perhaps sound drivers. You may also want to double check and make sure you not running any weird apps in the background that's making SL sluggish, like a virus scan, or some distributed network project like Bit Torrent, folding at home, etc. Lastly always check for spyware, and viruses.

Last thing you should check is your connection to the internet might be screwy. Power cycle your cable/DSL modem and see if that helps. Try to change your IP if possible that often helps clear out a lot of network congestion problems.

Good luck.

You People Are Better At Down Grading Others Thin Helping Thim

Every Thing You Just Said I Have Done More Thin Once

If you're really desperate you could try a complete reinstall of Windows, so format your C:\ drive and do a fresh reinstall.
It isn't a sophisticated solution, but it has done the trick for me on some games in the past.
I'm pretty good with PC's but somethimes there is "something" wrong and then even I have to reinstall Windows.
(it looks to me English isnt your first language, no problem, I'm not english too, but I agree with Hugsalot. Your post is very hard to read...)

My previously good SL performance went to hell a while back. I found that my SBC Yahoo DSL connection had gotten VERY flakey, with a lot of packet loss and erratic speeds, sometimes as low as 26 kbps! When I found out it was that horrible, I dumped it and got cable, and now SL is working better than ever for me. Try this bandwidth test: http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

Edit: Try it more than once. If I had not retested I wouldn't have seen what was going on.

I went to the speed test sight you said and from what it says my speed is 1891.5 kbps
as for the reformate yes i have done that 3 days ago I have updated all drivers i have been on the phone with sbc yahoo they have done a line test and every thing there is fine
for the other yes iam english but why does that even matter i cant typ and my spelling is well not that good i know but that doesnt make me any differnt thin anyone eles here no better and no worse thin a person so can i just please have help with my comp and thats all if not just tell me iam not wellcome and ill leave no prob again ty for your help this far
the prob iam haveing is i tp to a sim any sim i have to stand in one spot for at lest 5 min befor trying to walk or ill sink thur the ground once i can move only half of any object has fully rezed theres no packet loss i can be the only person on a sim and still have this prob if iam not sinking in to the ground iam walking in place not moveing when i do see other people they ar all grey no color no clothes i just redownloaded sl even went as far as doing a serch for any files that has the name second life and deleted thim after the uninstal i have allso tryed the toast.net speed test i been thinking of changing server to time warner cable would this be a better dsl ?

Could you please say again how much memory there is on your video card, and then how much system RAM you have? I am a little confused by the way you worded it in your first post, but I'm not a very big techy! What you just described really sounds to me like problems I had with my slow DSL, but even more like the problems I had before I added RAM to my system. The result of the test you tried looks good, so it doesn't look like your DSL is the problem (but you can always take the test again).

Edit: BTW, you said you're English. So are you in the UK? Because that DOES make a difference. It's my understanding that the farther away you are from the servers that run SL, the more "latency" you will have. That could be a big part of the problem.

Edit again: Scratch that. There can't possibly be SBC Yahoo in the UK. Doh! I'm sorry, that was my last guess as to what might be wrong. I hope someone with mightier geek-fu than mine can help you.

My graphic card is a nvidia 5500 agp 256 ram and my system ram is 1 gig I have been told from another post that maby upgrading my graphic card and power supply may help. What i cant understand is lot of others have told me that they have same system as i do or less and dont have the probs i do.

I don't see what the problem could be, either. What other programs do you have open while you're running SL? Maybe they're using up memory and/or bandwidth?

I agree with Kim. My system is not that different than yours (I have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 1.5 GB of RAM, and an ATI 9600 video card with 128 MB of RAM) and SL runs very, very well for me.

In fact, I often read posts from people who have serious performance issues with SL whose machines are MUCH more powerful than mine, which leads me to believe that there must be certain preference settings that create a bottleneck, or there are other problems with the system.

If you have already reformatted/reinstalled and etc., then I'm not sure what to suggest. Have you tried calling the Linden Lab tech support line?

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Your configuration should be more than fast enough to run SL. As others have posted previously, the issue is likely either something that is running in the background or a network issue between you and the SL server. I realize that you tested your connection but this only measures the connection to that link and your overall connection is ok. It doesn't prove there isn't a routing issue between your machine and the SL servers. What version of Windows are you running? Please be aware that XP SP2 has a built in firewall that is enabled by default. Please provide a list of all runnning processes. It would also be beneficial to provide a traceroute to the SL server(s), but I don't know what IP address to trace. Perhaps someone else knows?

Iam running xp sp2 I have allso made sure no firewall is active. Far as programs running in the back ground i used the task manager to make sure only sl is running and i went to my run box typed in msconfig from there i went to start up programes and disabled thim all so nothing is running at start up. this is what i mean i dont understand why i get such lag. the walking in place, sinking in the ground and most objects and people ar gray. Some objects like buildings dont even rez fully walls missing and floor I well call sl support in the morn ty all for your help.