How to build a "dream system" for SL
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Richard Pinkerton
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Join date: 20 Jan 2005
Posts: 125
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02-15-2005 03:54
I think what I said was that the graphics cards speed wasn't as important as getting the maximum VRAM available. Anyway.... From: Jenna Jacobs Oh no Tread. Please do not tell me I have made a serious mistake.
Video Card: Area-51m 7700 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Go with 256MB of DDR3 memory
Motherboard: Intel® 915P Chipset Supporting PCI-Express
That should be plenty fast. I'm not sure how the laptop chips compare to the desktop ones, but the 6800 is top of the range at the moment. You've got 256Mb of VRAM and PCI-e so that's all good. |
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Charlotte Gillespie
2 - 0 Lindens
Join date: 19 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,101
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02-15-2005 05:05
A Mini Mac is perfect for SL  |
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Jenna Jacobs
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 6
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02-15-2005 15:45
***Breathes sigh of relief......****
It is actually awful not knowing what the heck you are doing.
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Nuit Divine
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Join date: 28 Dec 2004
Posts: 16
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02-24-2005 20:23
From: Charlotte Gillespie A Mini Mac is perfect for SL Hm, glad you are happy, or enjoying your joke. My iBook is quite comparable to a Mini Mac. 1+ GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200 32 MB, laptop hard drive. SL plays, barely, if I crank most or all of the graphics options down to minimum. I get anywhere from 2-5 FPS in primmy, scripty, heavily textured, and/or crowded areas. I can get up to 25 or so standing idle and alone in an uncluttered sim, going to very high altitude, etc. 1 GB is really the minimum amount of RAM, you might get by with 768 MB if you don't want to do anything else while you play. NVIDIA is to be preferred over ATI for SL in all cases. Even a GeForce 2MX 32 MB seems to do better than many Radeons. I am on 256 Kbps DSL. SL never seems to use more than 150 or so. I have SL's bandwidth throttle (more like a suggestion) set to 200. Latency varies widely from one sim to the next. Try to have land in a sim that has low latency to your client. If you want streaming music, you can do low bandwidth streams (< or = 56 Kbps) without too many big problems even on 256 Kbps DSL. If you want fatter streams and less lag, I'd consider 640 Kbps to be the minimum. High latency will kill your frame rate almost faster than anything else. |
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eltee Statosky
Luskie
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,258
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02-25-2005 01:35
quite comparable except it costs at, or over 2x as much
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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02-25-2005 04:42
Hal 9000 
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly
Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,860
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02-25-2005 05:25
"i'm sorry Strife, i can't attach that giant penis to your head in a PG sim." griefing solved!
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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02-25-2005 08:58
From: Zuzi Martinez "i'm sorry Strife, i can't attach that giant penis to your head in a PG sim." I think this is a PG forum
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly
Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey
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Fritz Rosencrans
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Join date: 1 Feb 2005
Posts: 36
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Disk cache for performance
03-02-2005 06:08
One point that may make a difference with windows swapping: a disk with 8 MBytes cache. Other that that, I agree with Eggy - I have a 1200 Duran with a geForce 5200 and 1 GB Ram, and I have very predictable performnace, just like eggy... laggy only on laggy areas.
A second system with 512 MB DOES freeze when windows swaps. It is a 2.2 GHz P IV, wth the same graphic card. I would say, 1 GB main memory would be a great idea. But this is ALSO only a problem in a Very Dense Sims... TeaZers Isle, yesterday for example... Had to relog twice.
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Artanis LeMay
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Join date: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3
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03-02-2005 11:30
"how am I EVER gonna fill it? (I need to say that after every hard drive purchase))"
one word for you "Video" i have over 1200 gig of the stuff across my computers. any new comp should have about at least 500gig if your going to try to skip upgrading for a few years.
1 gig of ram makes a huge diff and dont skimp on the motherboard
cpu~250
g card~250
mobo~150
good hard drive(s) ~250
(o btw its a bit off topic but how do you tell your framerate?)
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eltee Statosky
Luskie
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,258
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03-02-2005 11:40
alt+1 brings up the statistics panel, which among many other things, has your current framerate as a number, and a 'history' scrolling graph
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ArchTx Edo
Mystic/Artist/Architect
Join date: 13 Feb 2005
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04-01-2005 18:04
From: Jenna Jacobs Oh I forgot to mention, I am a Windows user.
Jenna I'm very, very sorry. I hope that some day you can get over it. Be here now. ArchTx
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Norn Albion
Now one half cool!
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 60
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09-27-2005 08:41
I use a strange graphics card on this PC and a Radeon 9200 on other. Both have 128mb RAM This one is based on a GeForce2 but it's using PCI (not PCI-E, or AGP  ) because this PC is a Dell without an AGP slot :\ However, this PC seems to do better on SL than my AGP Radeon, probably because the AGP acceleration doesn't even work on the Radeon... |