Fountain in Welcom Area

I have been having a problem with the fountain in the Welcome Area for almost two months now. I always thought it was a bugged update but I asked one night and everyonr else can see it just fine.

As you can see from the pictures I attached the fountain does not look like it is fountaining? anymore. It just spurts a puff of steam out and you can see a small teir of water falling from the top pool down to the main pool.

I have turned my partical count all the way up as someone sugested I had it set too low but that did not help.

My system configuration is...

AMD-64 3500+
1GB DDR RAM
Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI
Nvidia 6800GT 256MB PCIe
Direct-X 9.0c
nVidia Forceware drivers 81.95
Windows XP Pro service pack 2

Lod in SL is pretty bad, it tend to scale down things like particles into oblivion, making them nearly non exsistant -.-

even with max particles 8196 , to many avatars in draw distance - puff puff particles

In low traffic sims this wont happen, noticed it to, particles just puffs now

that looks like there are too may particles around and the system is overloaded. from personal experience setting the particle limit to 4096 gives the best results, try looking at the fountain sometime when the WA is empty and/or turning your draw distance al the way down and see if that help.
reasons that particles are maxed out could be anything from way too much bling, too much chat (there are particles formed around everyone as they say something) someone as a poofer going off, people in morris messing around in the sandbox with particles. but most likely some combination of the above.
often a poor graphics card could be to blame, but yours is far from a poor card. you could also try clearing your cache (the general fix all in SL).

good luck

jester

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