05-18-2006 08:38
Downloaded the new 1.10.0(27) today and logged in. Found no one was around so I decided to hit up moris for some speed tests. Get there I noticed my settings were all wrong so I turned back on AA, Ripplewater, Nearby Lights, Shiny/Bump, put back on bumpmapping on my avitar, cranked down particles and draw distance. Surprisingly there was only a minor speed boost of like 1.5 fps wich surprises me seeing how my draw distance was set by default to 128 when I first went in and AA, LL, and RippleWater don't normally affect my FPS. Figured AA, Ripplewater, and Nearby lights prevented any further speed boosts. Then I figured for sh!ts and giggles I would see how preview looked with AA & AF cranked up. So I opened up my profile editor nHancer and went to my SecondLifePreview settings where I cranked AA up to 4x Multisampling & AF up to 8x. I went from running 15 - 17fps to 19 - 21fps in Moris, the current lag capitol of Siva with all the flexible lighted up junk all over the place.

Now it may just be me, but can anyone else verify this? I'm currently using an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with 1gig DDR333 RAM and a XFX Geforce 6600GT 128MB AGP using the XG 84.56v3 drivers (87.25 was starting to get buggy being an unoffical beta so I downgraded back to 84.56).