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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
06-01-2006 00:45
I just wanted to say, for the record, and in spite of all these feverishly typed mouth foaming rants about just how bad the latest version is... the version that introduced occlusion culling, flexible prims and the new lighting system is the first version of SL that is playable for me since April 2005. And it's not just playable, it's actually rather good.

Getting great framerates - I'm talking double, treble and more than before this update. A lot of the issues I was getting with building - snap backs, prims randomly resetting to previous settings, textures never rezzing etc - are gone. I haven't been able to build anything in SL in over a year. As have many other issues I was having constantly. So personally it's a major step forward.

And no, I didn't change my pc/firewall/router/drivers/graphic card/isp/connection/anything else you care to mention. It's entirely down to how SL did and now does behave.

And yet all those Lindens said that the problem was at my end for all that time and did nothing at all to help, and all the while I told them it wasn't.

So this isn't meant as any kind of praise for LL, because I still think that when it comes to dealing with customers they collectively suck ass. And even though software-wise it magically seems to have all pulled together a year or so later I have no intention of ever actually paying LL to play again.

But I thought it was interesting that despite all this screaming about the new version being the worst yet. that at least for some of us it's the best in many, many, many months!

Of course, strictly speaking this isn't current version feedback, because I say all this having not tried yesterdays client yet. It's probably all changed again since then :p
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Willow Zander
Having Blahgasms
Join date: 22 May 2004
Posts: 9,935
06-01-2006 01:08
\o/ KRitter is BACK!

I quite like the new update, apart from CTRL-ALT-5 (yes I AM still going on about that :mad: ) getting stolen away from us! But yesterdays client has started making prims disappear on me, but hey, not that much of a big deal, not like I build or anything.
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