really low FPS in Secondlife

hey all is there a way i can get better FPS in second life i get 3.5 FPS at times and i have tried just about all i can think of to make it alot higher i am running an ATI 9550 256 meg video card Second live is the only game that is doing this so im thinking there is a setting some place where i can adjust this at thanks

Could use more pc spec's, SL likes ram, and cpu alot, 3.5 fps sounds like youre on 512 ram, that vid card doesnt help its not a fast one.

Lower view distance
avoid ground
avoid avatars

Pretty much only way to get 40+ fps in SL

my PC is a P4 3.2 GHz Hyperthread 1 gig ram 800gigs HDD SBlive soundcard ATI 9550 with 256 megs Ram

I should have no problems with FPS i can run WOW almost full out with no chop and FPS problems

im also on cable and able to connect to the game at 1000+ KBPS

I've heard several times of dramatic improvements when you go from 1Gb to 2Gb memory....

" I should have no problems with FPS i can run WOW almost full out with no chop and FPS problems "

Wow cant be compared to SL,
wow is;
- low res textures
- low polycount/details
- localized installation, all files you need are on your drive
- its optimized for speed as it has zero user content
- its directx , SL is opengl

SL;
- millions of unoptimzed textures, that can have 1024x1024 size
- avatars that would make a average pc cry rendering them
- ram hog , 1gig is abselute min, 2 is what i would set min
- bandwidth hog
- realtime rendering ,wich is pretty severe impact on fps,
SL really need a well above vidcard,ram ,cpu to get into the 30+ fps

If you want higher fps you would need better vid card and 1 gig ram more would help you alot, dont ask me about ati tho, i use nvidia's latly (7900/8800)