1.17.0.12 -> 1.17.1.0 == Massive perf drop

I dont have time to look into whats going on right now, but so far


1.17.0.12 -> 30-40 fps
1.17.1.0 -> 3-4 fps



Suse 10.2, Nvidia, #export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x (cxommented out)

30->15fps on ubuntu 7.04
basicext commented out, too (as usual, nothing changed in my config file and .sh)

i have to say that this release is very unstable, too

Pretty much wiped out all the performance gains I reported earlier from the (second to) latest ATI driver update

Back on 0.12 because of the pie-menu:edit issue anyway.

Same issue here. Slow to the point of near unusability. Previous version (1.17.0.12) was fine as far as performance goes.

kernel 2.6.22-rc6-ck1, nVidia drivers (1.0-9639), X.Org 7.1.1, blah, blah, blah.

Same here gentoo, with nvidia drivers and athlon cpu, frames count almost halved going to try 1.17.2 hoping in the impossible. :/

Quickly floods out my system - with the current client, I get perhaps 2 minutes of usable time in-world, then my system slows to a crawl. Exiting SL takes up to 10 minutes.

The problem is with a bug in the SConstruct file for the Linux viewer. Somehow, LL removed an -O2 flag from the cxxflags line, preventing any optimization to occur for the C++ files (the C files are still properly optimized). I just compiled 1.17.2.0 with the proper opt flags, and it runs just as fast as v1.17.0.12...

There are other oddities, yet (static libraries being compiled as dynamic and needing to be put manually into the distribution tarball or install directory to allow the viewer to run)...

I will post a new make-SL script now on the wiki (https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_%28Linux%29#Automated_libraries_and_headers_adjustments.2C_compilation_and_packaging), which fixes the optimization problem, but not the library distribution problem (it's very late here: almost 2am, and I must get some sleep): simply move manually the *.so files from $PATH_TO_SOURCES/indra/lib_releasefordownload_client/i686-linux/ to the lib/ dir of the installed viewer...

I also noticed two new bugs in v1.17.2.0, when compared to v1.17.0.12: the Go Away/AFK when idle setting in the Client debug menu is no more taken into account (it is always on, even when unchecked, which is a very big annoyance under Linux, because switching to another window marks you as idle...), and the music buttons, at the bottom of the window always show off, even when you asked not to play streaming music in the preferences...

As usual, LL introduces more serious bugs than they fix with each new release...

Please try the 1.17.2.0 viewer, which corrects an error in the compiler flags used.

It does not... The flags used for the compilation are wrong as well... Please, read my former post in this thread.

It may be that the flags are not set, but I find similar performance with the Linux Client 1.17.2 and the windows client with the same version, and it appears just about the same as it always was.

Haven't tried the Windlight client again - that DID have a MASSIVE performance hit, and the graphics were very much a matter of (very abstruse) taste ...