Any tweaks or ideas

I have a AMD 64 3200 processore
A K8N Motherboard
1gb 400 ddr
160gb sata drive
Nvidia 6800 GT 128mb.
Windows XP professional


2mb adsl connection.


I am having great difficulty even at low end resolution.

lots of slow down and stuttering

i thought my system was pretty good

any ideas

In Edit / Preferences / Options
Is AGP ticked?
Is memory set to 256MB?
Texture cache size set to large?

Need to keep in mind that even though you have a rocking system, you still can't run SL with everything turned up and AA and AF filtering maxed out. Also keep in mind everyone I know and myself have seen an increase in lag and stuttering in the last couple of weeks for unknown reasons.

Things to look at in addition to what has already been mentioned.

Don't run any other programs in the background, make sure there is no spyware or what have you going at the same time. Beware of anything with "Norton" in its name as it tends to muck up things.

Make sure local lighting is turned off, this is a huge performance hit. Seems the only computers currently able to run SL with all the goodies turned up belong to secret government programs with black helicopters.

Turn your draw distance down to something under 200 meters, lower the better.

If your 6800 is PCIe, make sure SL isn't seeing it as a PCI card and that AGP is turned on.

Updated drivers for everything not just the video card, you need em for the motherboard, soundcard, etc.

Set your card for "application preference" on all your 3d settings, AA, AF filtering etc. Once you get your stuttering and lag solved you can try bumping these setting up slowly until you reach a balance between pretty and performance.

Defrag that hard drive often. 10% fragmentation on a 200 gig HD is a lot of fragmented files and can occure faster than you expect. Be sure to turn off the page file, defrag, then turn it back on.

Location can be the biggest cause of performance problems. Go to a new sim with few objects or people and see if you still have the problems. If not then head to an older sim like Da Boom. If it runs smoothly for you then...you likely have black helocopters on the roof don't ya? It tends to be laggy for me anytime I go there, slideshow if there are just a couple of people in the sim and my machine isn't a slouch.

Check out the support Wiki, lots of good info there on performance issues.

What sort of FPS are you getting? What is your ping? (Alt-1 brings up the statistics display.)
It might be that you're getting an acceptable framerate and ping for your computer, but it's just not what it could be. 25fps is pretty good in SL, you know.

Catherine,

<<25fps is pretty good in SL, you know.>>

Blimey - I'm happy if I can achieve 5!

Sorry for not replying for so long
had rl issues
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okay my graphics card is AGP
All drivers are updated for windows xp and my motherboard and my GC
At my house with nothing going on at all i get
45fps average
My display options
Only shiny objects ticked (i like it)
Bump mapped and cloth

Terrain some
1024*768

options
AG ticked
Large cache
256mb memoryt
Draw dis 160

45 FPS is very good for SL in a modestly built up sim. Most folks are running in the 10-15 FPS range or less so you are doing really good in that regard.