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Advanced Caching

Jinsar Eponym
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Join date: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
04-17-2006 08:59
I'm wondering what people would think of an advanced caching ability for people with high speed lines and lots of hard drive space. Right now it seems at max level I cache more or less the sim I'm in. Which is nice, except as soon as I Start to move towards another sim, especially flying, I take a hit..
What if you cached the the one you were in, as well as the 8 surrounding it. As you moved it would cache the next 3 in the direction you travelled.

I'm just thinking something like this might make certain kinds of travel a little nice so you're not flying around, then suddenly have a building pop up around you.
Striker Wolfe
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Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 355
04-17-2006 10:02
From: Jinsar Eponym
I'm wondering what people would think of an advanced caching ability for people with high speed lines and lots of hard drive space. Right now it seems at max level I cache more or less the sim I'm in. Which is nice, except as soon as I Start to move towards another sim, especially flying, I take a hit..
What if you cached the the one you were in, as well as the 8 surrounding it. As you moved it would cache the next 3 in the direction you travelled.

I'm just thinking something like this might make certain kinds of travel a little nice so you're not flying around, then suddenly have a building pop up around you.



Turn your draw distance to 512m
Jinsar Eponym
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Join date: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
04-17-2006 10:07
draw distance is different than what I suggested. That would have it actually draw that far, not just cache that information. It would be easy for someone to have a fast connection, big hard drive, and not have a video card capable of drawing that much.
Striker Wolfe
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Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 355
04-17-2006 13:50
From: Jinsar Eponym
draw distance is different than what I suggested. That would have it actually draw that far, not just cache that information. It would be easy for someone to have a fast connection, big hard drive, and not have a video card capable of drawing that much.


Then I believe the Feature Suggestions forum would be appropriate for this post since what you are asking for doesn't exist, I too would like to see this feature:

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Thili Playfair
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Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
04-17-2006 13:52
cache download in SL is limited, wont help if you have anything over 2mbit, except for video / audio (well ok audio isnt demanding ~.~)