people with no problems with graphics

if you seem to run a good FPS and get good quality, post what your options are set to, this is really annoying me, i can't seem to play because of lag...and FPS!
i have 2MB broadband!

P4 1.4GHz
384MB RAM
GeForce 4 Ti 4200

I have avatar cloth and bump mapping off, local lighting off, and draw distance at 128. Get decent FPS at all times.

a64-3800+
3 gig ram
6800gt agp
155mbit inet

SL is installed on my fastest drive 10000 rpm sata drive, and so is its cache

**Display**
Anistrophic Filtering : on
Local Shadow : off (to heavy when theres to many around me)
Shadows : on
Ripple water : off
Disable far clip : off
Shiny object : on

Avatar Rendering : Bump Mapped
Terrain : full

**Options**
Texture cache : Large > 512ram
Vid card : 128 (yeah yeah i only have a 128mb vid card
Object Detail : Max
Tree Detail : Max
Avatar Detail : Max

Avatar Vertex Program : On

Draw Distance : 128-256 (vary how many i got around me)
Fog Distance : 2.0
Drop Draw Distance if FPS : 5
Bumpiness Draw Distance : 25-50 (vary when i build)
Max Particle : 2048-4096 (usually 204
Outfit COmposite Limit : 5

I usually sit between 15-20 fps, 50+ when i build ( i build in sandbox/sky )

Its pretty much the same as i got with my older R9800pro ( rip.. i killed it )

Pentium4 HT 2.54GHz
768MB RAM
256MB Nvidia QuadroFX3000 video card
DSL speed averages around 300-500kbps (kind of crappy for DSL but what can ya do)

SL Settings:
Anistrophic Filtering : Off
Local Lighting : On
Shadows : On
Ripple water : Off
Disable Far Clip : On
Shiny Objects : On
Avatar Rendering : Bump Mapped & Cloth
Terrain Detail : full
Run in a Window : On (This makes a huge difference. On or Off benefit varies from computer to computer.)
Cache : 1000MB
AGP On
Texture Cache: Large
Video Card Memory: 256
Object Detail : Max
Tree Detail : Max
Avatar Detail : Max
Avatar Vertex Program : On
Draw Distance : 128 (I raise it sometimes when I'm building large things, but genereally 128 works great)
Fog Distance : 2.0
Drop Draw Distance if FPS : 5
Bumpiness Draw Distance : 20-50 (I raise it if I'm building big)
Max Particle : 4096
Outfit Composite Limit : 5


Before Verizon slowed my connection speed for some unexplained reason I used to get 20-50 FPS with these settings. Now I get on average 10-15, which I still find acceptable even if it's not exactly warp speed. I prefer to view things the way they are intended to look (shine, local lighting) and live with a few less FPS than have to see the world through blinders in order for it to move as fast as possible.

There are so many reasons you may be getting lag, The options may or may not be the culpret. Give us a list of your specs and what you are using and perhaps we can spot something. Be sure to include screen resolution, graphic card settings etc.

One big culprit i have found is the MB chipset drivers, if they haven't been updated that can cause all sorts of problems. Depending on graphic cards, drivers for those can be a major source of headache.

One think to keep in mind is where you are, there are unbelievable differences in performance depending on where you are standing in SL. Go to one of the brand new sims and see what your frame rates are. Looking into the sky in Keuka I got 135 fps and the sim is running at 8800fps. My home sim with the same settings I get 19fps and the sim is running about 1000fps but it has a lot of builds on it. Keep in mind every object in a sim is a tiny performance hit, scripts, local lighting, rotating prims all take more and it all adds up. Every avatar in the sim is a large performance hit as well.

I can go to Teazers with 35 people there and be running at a slide show framerate. When the sim frame rate drops to 20, no matter what set up you have, you are going to get a slideshow.

Pentium4 HT 2.8GHz
1000MB RAM
256MB Nvidia Geforce FX 5950 ultra video card
DSL speed averages around 2MB

but for some reason, i get a message everytime i load up the game saying that my GL is set to pci, and i can't set it to AGP in the SL options