My Lag Sucks

I just started playing this game "Second Life" and i have found it to be quite laggy for people with the requirements fullfilled but not OVER the requirements. I myself have 328 ram plenty of space on my computer and a decent video & graphics card... the game lags bad whenever i run/change appearance/ pretty much anything i do that involves movement and people in the area. Im over the requirements why cant i play the game with ease?

Please help out

~Tyrx

Here are a few tips:

1) While in SL, press CTRL+P and turn all your graphic options to the lowest possible point. Turn off Shadows, and all those options. Even putting your terrein detail to none seems to help me when I'm in need of some FPS.

2) Full screen is bad. Play in windowed. If you are still lagging, shrink the size of your window some. I don't know if this is technically true, but it helps me.

3) The minimum requirements are just that, minimum. They mean that you'll be able to run SL. But if you want peak performance, you better invest in a super, and I mean SUPER, computer.

Good Luck,
HDC

SL has always lagged, its manly down to it loading in data from net, and rendering the parts as it comes in, this is manly what slows down everything, if you set your bandwidth too hi, it will slow down, set it lower and it will lag less, I guess it’s the way SL have programmed it, though I don’t think the graphics engine its self is very fast ether, compared to other engines like Quest3d.

Textures are a big problem I find in SL, it can use a grate deal, meaning if your graphics card has 128 meg of texture mem, this can fill up quite quick, when it dose, it then starts to use PC memory, when this memory fills up, it starts to use vmemory, and at this point, things will start to slow down a heck of a lot.

Its SL fault that it doesn’t run good, since they can program it to be better at this, maybe in future they will do something about it.

I have a 300mhz AGP 128mb graphics card, 3000mhz running at 2100 CPU, 1GB of real memory, ADSL 576Kbps in 288Kbps out, of which I use 300Kbps any higher and it slows down stuff.

I only really use it on weekends, or sometimes in the week, to play around with scripts n stuff, I do get bored pretty quickly with SL though, I’m sure I’m not alone.

when i play SL in the beginning it says clothing not fully loaded. then it gets all laggy. i mean really laggy!!! before the up date it wasn't laggy. had a couple of bugs. but wasn't that laggy. BUT NOW!!!! I CANT PLAY! IT TAKES TWO MINS TO GET MY ADVATAR TO MOVE A LITTLE! PLUS MY ADVATAR USED TO BE A GUY... now its a girl! i didnt do anything!

Alex@

Your talking about the "one time conversion" that has to be done to everones account, when thay first login to the new version?

As for your avatar messing up, I guess thats a bug in the conversion, and didont do it right for you..