This issue does not need to be discussed among residents: it needs to be brought to the attention of engineers, and fixed. To add creedence to this, there are many more people noticing this issue as the days go on :
"Pathetic State of Object LOD in 1.10.2"
"Enlarged and distsorted prims Pt 2"
I give you Hexagon MAN!!!
Post by Pol Tabla on the issue
Enlarged, swollen, stretched-out prims
All within the last 24 hours, -in addition- to our original thread.
Torley, while I understand the need for classification and keeping the forums in order -- I do honestly believe this needs an "answer", not simply a discussion amongst the residents in a non-Linden forum.
This is a big issue, and it needs to be up front, and not on the back burner. We were told that this is pretty much 'the way it is' now, but LOD was pretty much constant from 1.0 on; now we suddenly have a rather significant degradation in graphics quality even at maximum levels.
This was an undocumented change which has had widespread effects. We don't even know if it was a "feature" which needs "feedback" as it was not even mentioned in the release notes --- it may be a bug; we're not sure, but we need answers, the "what, where, when and why" before we can proceed.
Note and update: I suppose that we were told by Runitai Linden that LOD -was- simply *lowered* to "increase performance*.... I'm not sure how many people have noticed a substantial FPS increase, but I do know a LOT of people have noticed trash content.
Thousands of our avatars have been hit hard by this change. Many other people are seeing the problems. Please, please, please reconsider it. Please restore LOD back to the way it was --- the performance gain (if there was any) was simply not worth the loss of detail.
As eltee said:
please, let us see the world we've made for ourselves, the way we have been able to see it for almost *THREE YEARS* now...
With no resident communication, no dialog, not even the courtesy of a release note, every single user of SL just had 'polygon cataracts' put into their eyes.
Even at -maximum settings-, in many cases we do not have the detail we had before at -medium settings-.
Avatar producers have had to put the following disclaimers in their profiles:
If you are contacting me because your NWS avatar suddenly looks blocky, go to /108/69/112781/1.html#post1082561 and tell Linden Labs, they did it.
We're already starting to get complaints on the issue, and all we can say is, "Well, things simply don't look as good as they used to before."
This is rapidly becoming a serious issue.
Now I know from past experiences that when a change happens on SL, it's like walking on the sun to get it reversed. Maybe people were complaining about performance -- they always have. Occlusion Culling was a great step in the right direction on this issue; completely obliterating level of detail was not.
Please reconsider this change. There's little point to "fast content" (and I do not see any evidence of a speed increase even on the slower systems i've used) when that "fast content" isn't even worth seeing.
I beg, and implore, Linden Lab to carefully read over this thread -- every page, every screenshot -- and recognize, and take in, what problems this sudden undocumented change is causing for people; and reverse it. And consider less 'brute force' methods of improving performance.
), SL Answers is like the center of the universe to some. Understood. But things also sink fast here--look at all the questions that get asked. So it doesn't guarantee a "remain on the forefront" status either.