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Miriel Enfield
Prim Junkie
Join date: 12 Dec 2005
Posts: 389
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04-28-2006 23:12
I can access Ripple Water in the main grid. I couldn't in preview for a while, but then I updated my drivers and things got tweaked, and in 1.9.1.14 I could use it again. Everything worked fine, in fact -- Vertex Shaders slowed things down, but they were working.
And now in 1.9.1.16 I can't see the ripply water (I never got a chance to try .15), and I can't change the rendering detail levels of anything except avatars. I know the programmers are hard at work, but it's really disappointing to have features I could use before suddenly vanish.
Edit: I'm using Windows XP, Pentium 4 processor (3.2 GHz), NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (32 MB of memory), Omega 1.6693 drivers. And yes, I filed a bug report.
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Eep Quirk
Absolutely Relative
Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,211
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04-29-2006 00:36
I assume "shaders" is on in "Graphics" prefs? 32MB isn't much vid RAM these days...and that Go GPU is a dog. Laptop? You should upgrade your video...
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Miriel Enfield
Prim Junkie
Join date: 12 Dec 2005
Posts: 389
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04-29-2006 02:19
Shaders are on, yes.
And yeah, it's a laptop. I know it's not a very good system. I'm just frustrated that, while it can clearly handle things like ripple water, I can't access those features anymore.
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Zodiakos Absolute
With a a dash of lemon.
Join date: 6 Jun 2005
Posts: 282
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04-29-2006 14:03
I believe ripple water only appears now with medium or higher environment detail set in vertex shader options, per the release notes.
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Miriel Enfield
Prim Junkie
Join date: 12 Dec 2005
Posts: 389
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04-29-2006 18:31
Yeah. And I can't set medium or high environment detail because environment detail is completely grayed out for me.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
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04-29-2006 18:55
It might be possible to make ripple water work again by modifying the featuretable.txt file in the Program Files\SeondLife folder.
There is a setting "RenderRippleWater 1 0" which might be able to be changed to "RenderRippleWater 1 1" somewhere in that file to trick SL into allowing your system to ripple water.
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