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Chriss Hansen
Registered User
Join date: 13 May 2006
Posts: 2
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12-01-2006 23:04
Hello!
That's my issue: I have never, so far, been able to spend more than 5 minutes in SL without this happening:
One minute I'm just walking, the next I find myself 'sinking' into the hills and suddenly I start drifting in a given direction until I end up lost outside the island's map.
I do not know if I am being very clear here...I hope I am.
Anyone else having this issue? What can I do?
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Gin Clayton
Writer
Join date: 12 May 2005
Posts: 76
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12-02-2006 01:10
Sounds like the sim is taking a major dive. Try going to another sim.
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Chriss Hansen
Registered User
Join date: 13 May 2006
Posts: 2
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12-03-2006 02:05
From: Gin Clayton Sounds like the sim is taking a major dive. Try going to another sim. Gin, I'm not sure I understand much of your sentence. I do not have the SL lingo down yet! Are you saying that I should try restarting from scratch with a brand new avatar? Thanks for your help! |
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Peekay Semyorka
Registered User
Join date: 18 Nov 2006
Posts: 337
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12-03-2006 03:46
No, just try moving / teleporting to a different region and see if it still happens. If you click on the Map, you can see the region names on it. Pick a far away region and teleport there.
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Ordinal Malaprop
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Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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12-03-2006 04:19
A "sim" is a simulator - it's the 256x256m region that you're in at that particular moment, with a particular name like Ahern or Caledon or whatever. It's not like the Sims where a sim is a person!
The problem you're describing is often due to bad communication between your client and the server that the sim is running on - your position gets out of sync, you drift through stuff, you can't move properly. Mostly after a while you snap back to where you were beforehand but sometimes you don't.
If it's happening a lot that can be a sign that the sim you're in is having trouble, so you might want to go somewhere else. It can also be a sign of something your end too though. If you've got other programs running at the same time, using memory and particularly bandwidth, try quitting them... or if someone else is on your connection using BitTorrent, say, ask them to stop for a bit so you can test whether it's that... it's not an exact science predicting these things but it's worth a shot.
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Sheeznit Naheed
Registered User
Join date: 2 Oct 2006
Posts: 2
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Bad Connection?
12-13-2006 11:34
I sometimes log onto second life from my laptop that uses cellular broadband. Even on a good day, the upstream speed is very low. If my signal is low and I try to move, what happens to you occurs every time! You may have a connection that has a very slow upstream speed that gets "lost" by the server
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Glory Takashi
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Join date: 26 Feb 2006
Posts: 182
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12-13-2006 13:21
From: Chriss Hansen Hello!
That's my issue: I have never, so far, been able to spend more than 5 minutes in SL without this happening:
One minute I'm just walking, the next I find myself 'sinking' into the hills and suddenly I start drifting in a given direction until I end up lost outside the island's map.
I do not know if I am being very clear here...I hope I am.
Anyone else having this issue? What can I do? Your losing your connection to the sim. Either your internet connection is losing it or the SL servers are dropping your connection but that is the reason for walking off into infinity. I know this issue well I used to suffer from it 5-10 times a day. Was my ISP's crappy service.
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