Slow Map Load Speed

I want to play SL but it takes like 10 minutes to load a map. Any tips to speed up map load speed?

the world map uses MANY different large textures, all go into your cache, at the same time, slowly with all other textures you see then.

clear cache weekly.
abort all other program downloads.
zoom map.
reduce view range.
teleport into an area with barely any textures or persons nearby (open ocean) or move to 150m height.


Still I once really had it with the same caching problems, so i made maps out of roughlöy 800 prims of corsica-mainland, and 750 prims of the first mainland continent, each split onto 4 link-groups to be worn or placed inworld for preloading, and made them load the minimap texture on state entry.

Wearing the world map textures on hud or AV keeps keeps the textures in the cache.
Otherwise they are not kept for long.

Wha? (o.o) /me starts looking for UUIDs of map textures. (o.o)