That's about it. A picture is worth a thousand words.
My stats:
P4 - 1.8GHz
GeForce FX 5200, 128MB
512MB RAM
Every now and then, when I go to an area with a lot of prims & textures this happens to me.
What is "RenderSync"? Why is it screwing with me so bad? How do I fix it?
All my display settings are turned all the way down/off, except bump-map. The user ping is nonsensical - my network is fine. In another window, I pinged data.agni.lindenlab.comm and I had 0 packet loss, avg 39ms.
edit: removed my account balance from screenshot
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Francis Chung
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10-12-2004 18:51
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Taral Roentgen
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10-12-2004 19:15
Same here... 75% RenderSync with severe interface lag.
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Azelda Garcia
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10-12-2004 19:59
Sounds like cache refresh?
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Moleculor Satyr
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10-12-2004 20:33
As was recently revealed by one of the Lindens, your ping directly affects your framerate.
I don't know if that's what that is, but it is a slightly educated guess, I suppose. _____________________
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Francis Chung
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10-13-2004 05:19
As was recently revealed by one of the Lindens, your ping directly affects your framerate. I don't know if that's what that is, but it is a slightly educated guess, I suppose. Hi Mol, I mentioned in my post that my ping was 39ms to lindenlab. It doesn't get much better than that  Also, I read through Phoenix's post. It seems to imply that bad framerate leads to bad ping times, but not the converse, as you suggested. _____________________
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Devyn Grimm
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10-13-2004 11:23
I see from the screenshot you were in Umber at the time - and it looks like you were in the midst of the recurring problem we've been having (sub 2 fps framerates, extremely high pings in the client). Maybe this RenderSync is another piece of the puzzle to look into...
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Francis Chung
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10-13-2004 13:12
Yes, I was in Umber when it happened this time. I was also 670m in the air - and with a draw distance of 64, this means my client wasn't really rendering anything other than my avatar
 But, after looking at the screenshot closer, I think "IdleNetwork" was consuming all those cycles, not "RenderSync". (Both of them are colour-coded the same )Edit: Oh, while I'm here. I've been getting questions on how to grab all these stats. CTRL-ALT-D to turn on debug mode in SL, and then ALT-2 I think will give you this menu. It's definately Alt-[some number] _____________________
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Devyn Grimm
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10-13-2004 14:55
Oh that's confusing that they color-coded them the same. I suppose the placement in the list show's which is which - so I think you're right that it is IdleNetwork. Do you notice that IdleNetwork only spikes like that during the low frame rates / high pings?
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Morgaine Dinova
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10-13-2004 20:53
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Francis Chung
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10-17-2004 07:24
Gratz! You have almost 1,000 times as much L$ as me. Oh fiddlesticks. Why don't people tell me when I do dumb things like this? Incidentally, this problem happened to me high-above mocha, where there's virtually no lag. So I don't know what are the symptoms. _____________________
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Huns Valen
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10-19-2004 20:28
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Rickard Roentgen
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10-21-2004 17:04
Ya, I've been getting it too, but it seems to only happen when I'm up i the air. say above 128 150. when it happens I usually fly down to the ground if I can. Always seems to fix it (as long as I stay on teh ground).
my pings not great, 130 usually, but it doesn't shoot up when this happens, so I don't see how that can be the problem. It certainly is highly annoying. _____________________
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Huns Valen
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10-26-2004 14:20
HELLO THREAD HOW ARE YOU TODAY
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Moleculor Satyr
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10-26-2004 15:03
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Huns Valen
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10-26-2004 17:12
kind of annoyed at how whenever I fly through morris/ahern I have to guess what my airplane is doing for half a minute and then finally it goes back to normal and I'm in a ditch or in Darkwood or something
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eltee Statosky
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10-27-2004 10:42
That's about it. A picture is worth a thousand words. My stats: P4 - 1.8GHz GeForce FX 5200, 128MB 512MB RAM Every now and then, when I go to an area with a lot of prims & textures this happens to me. What is "RenderSync"? Why is it screwing with me so bad? How do I fix it? All my display settings are turned all the way down/off, except bump-map. The user ping is nonsensical - my network is fine. In another window, I pinged data.agni.lindenlab.comm and I had 0 packet loss, avg 39ms. edit: removed my account balance from screenshot actually fran thats not rendersync its a similarly colord 'idle network' the actual shading is done *IN ORDER* from left to right... one can only assume that the idle network slice is whats eating yer framerate because of the 16 second ping you have there (aka it can't gather the information it needs to draw the next frame, so it sits there waiting).. the actual rendersync slice is that itttttty bitty one way over on the right side _____________________
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Huns Valen
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10-27-2004 18:46
This is really wierd... sometimes I get it flying through a "busy" area like Ahern... but today I kept getting it waaaaaay high up in the sky above Cardova, with maybe as many as 50 prims in the frustum.
Turning down network bandwidth seems to make it less likely to happen, but it doesn't "fix" it - sometimes when this happens, my network bandwidth (according to alt+1) is around 100 kilobits. _____________________
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Francis Chung
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10-28-2004 17:22
actually fran thats not rendersync Actually Eltee, we know  Look back about 10 posts Anyways, this bug (at least for me) doesn't seem to have anything to do with altitude. That screenshot in question - it happened to me at ground level in Umber. Flying waaay high up didn't help either _____________________
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eltee Statosky
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10-28-2004 22:27
i saw it just the other day actually.. something had a timed rezzer going.. and it looked an awful lot like that as it was running.. when i killed it, it stopped
---- edit: whoops sorry heh i was thinking of somethin in another thread not this one sorry (the every nth frame large purple chunk, not the constant slow with bad ping, my bad _____________________
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