1.21 RELEASE CANDIDATE looks good, stable

Been on with the new RELEASE CANDIDATE in several instantiations for more than an hour - looks good, seems to load a little quicker, and is stable and robust.

Still having a bit of a problem with 'touch' objects - the hand icon doesn't always appear, requiring a right mouse click to get to the pie menu. No pattern that I can see. (Going to the 'edit' dialog and exiting it doesn't always fix it).

Haven't tried voice (don't have a headphone setup).

Not seeing excessive disk activity as I did in earlier versions.

Generally solid.

Been seeing a few lag spikes myself (momentary freezing), something I havn't seen in the stable release.

Giving it a bit more testing before I come to a conclusion.

[Edit]It may be a resolution issue. I've shrank my window to about half the size, and the lag spikes seem to have gone.

Which is weird, because this isn't a low spec machine.

May be region-related, but I've seen a few uncontrolled 'fly away' episodes in the last 24 hours - on two cases it ended only when the system logged me out.

UPDATE:

'Fly aways' seem to be most likely when crossing into another server's region... though I have had it happen well within a region (that is from the south-east to northwest corner of the same server region)

those episodes are generally caused by low region FPS if within the same region, and when crossing boarders between two different regions because the servers must transfer your connection. Main causes for low region FPS are laggy scripts and physical objects. Havok4 was introduced to try and speed regions with lots of physical objects up, and Mono is being used to hopefully speed the script side up, whenever they fully switch to Mono. This is the reason in low populated sims, you notice they run much faster, especially new sims, versus mainland sims that are full of people, or some sims that are full of scripted fancy objects, or sims which have not efficient clubs in them, which have lots of scripts, and tend to slow the sim down to process the scripts.

To check if its client side or server side, press CTRL+Shift+1 I think it is, and the verbose stats window will come up, and tell you your FPS, your bandwidth, etc. In that window you can check the server side FPS, which should be at a steady 45fps. if below 20 its way too low and you can see jumping around, fly away, or getting stuck in typing animations. Anything above 35fps is good. To find the reason, check the script IPS. IPS is instructions per second. This number should be low, where 5,000 is optimal, while 2,000,000 can really kill a sim.

I hope that helps a little ;3

If by stable you mean periodically seizing so much CPU time that it freezes everything up and causes network services to fail, then - yeah, its very stable!

Not doubting that you are experiencing what you are describing - but I don't see that at all. In fact, this release seems to work very well on my system. Three possible issues: memory, video, and network itself (either ISP or your network adapter). Unfortunately there can be other variables too: the specifics of the sim you are in (including scripts and the actual sim softwre version), other programs running at the time..

Again, not doubting that it's not working properly - but whatever it is, isn't universal.

I certainly haven't had the longest experience with SL on Linux, but I'd have to say that over the last year or so and a half of Linux viewers, this one is definitely the best.

Rudy

Well, the LATEST release candidate 1.21.3.97611 hasn't introduced any new vices as far as I can see... so far. I wonder if the missing 'Buy' entry in the pie pop-up is fixed in this release..haven't tried that yet.

It *could* be my imagination, but it seems to boot a little faster.

UPDATE: Buy seems to be working in this release.

RE: 1.21.3 Release Candidate - starting to see more crashes, particularly when crossing sim borders. It's definitely worse than earlier 1.21 releases.