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a piece of advice for newer, less tech-savvy players
Steve Mahfouz
Ecstasy Realty
Join date: 1 Oct 2005
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04-30-2007 07:20
From: Vale Vieria
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4D08&CategorySelectedId=11137&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11137,43990000,42740000&InMerch=1

This is the graphics card I'm planning on buying, does anyone have any idea how it's going to perform running SL? Is it worth forking out the extra money for a better one?

Vale


It should do fine running SL. You can get faster video cards but as I said above, your cpu/processor is more important to the frame rate speed of SL. That combined with adequate RAM, a minimum of 1 gigabyte to me. Only geeky types like me would buy a faster card, seriously :)
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Steve Mahfouz
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good thread with Lindens input on hardware for SL
04-30-2007 07:28
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Meade Paravane
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04-30-2007 08:52
From: Steve Mahfouz
...and yes, I know, SL doesn't need multi cores...

I think that changed not-too-long-ago. The viewer will offload texture decoding to a separate processor if you have one. Maybe other stuff, too.
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Steve Mahfouz
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bumparoo
05-16-2007 10:19
cuz the beta grid stress test reminded me of this :p
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Treacly Brodsky
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Join date: 23 Jul 2004
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05-16-2007 14:40
Ever since I swaped my HD for a 10,000 rpm SATA, SL runs like a charm. Heck; I can run 2 clients side by side flawlessly and that's with a crappy nvidia 256mb GPU. I spent some coin on the board and processor though back when the HT's were all the rave. Fact is it still outperforms many of my friends newer machines. Then again, everything seems to run better in Linux :cool:
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