Donuts gone bezerk

I already fixed it, but still quite odd.

This weekend I installed my new pc (Vista, 2G ram, Nvidia 7600GT). Specs are way better than my old one (XP, 756 ram, Geforce MX200).

SL looks great now. But when I looked at my furniture shop, all textures on donut-prims were totally screwed up. Not on other prims, just donuts. Textures looked like a bumped metal floor, but looked very good on my old pc. Blanking or editing the texture didn't work.

Funny thing is that a newly built donut with exactly the same texture looks fine. So why did this happen and why only on donut-prims? Very strange.

I can't help you, but I have to say that "donuts gone bezerk" would be a great show. just like "alphas fighting on a cage".

You might want to refrain from further use of the phrase "donut prim" before anyone starts laughing at you. So you know, it's called a torus. I agree with Moire though; "Donuts Gone Berserk" would be a great show.

Anyway, since you say you fixed it, what did you do? Was it a Vista issue? Graphics issue? Corrupted prims? Just another symptom of yesterday's general wonkyness in SL? I'm curious.

Darn.

I thought it was the sequel to Killer Tomatoes.

Couldn't find the right name for it, I know. But what the heck.
The fix was simply building and texturing new prims. But at the same time that's the weird thing about it: new torus prims with exactly the same settings AND exactly the same textures + texture settings all look fine.

I'm sure this is not a SL flaw per se. It must have something to do with either Vista or my new pc specs and graphics card, since the incident occured the moment I logged in on my new pc. But still I'm puzzled why only toruses were affected and why exactly the same new toruses show up fine.

Very weird. It actually sounds not too different than another strange occurrence that happened to me yesterday. This one regarded not textures but sit scripts. The same script placed into the same prim in two nearly identical chairs behaved completely differently. One had the av sitting in the right spot while the other had the av rotated at a really odd angle. The only difference between the two chairs were some minor cosmetic things. The basic structure and link order was the same for both.

What was even weirder was that rotating the oddly behaving chair caused the av to rotate more or less randomly. With the chair facing East, the av would also face East, but would be leaning at a 45 degree angle. Turn the chair to face North, and the av would flip upside down. Really, really strange. There were no multipliers or anything in the script to account for the behavior.

Sounds like your torus textures caught the same disease as my chair scripts yesterday.

For anyone who's interested:

Mystery is solved. It seems that I used a bump map on the described torus prims, just for testing what it would do. The effect was zero on my low end pc (bump maps automatically disabled), but showed up on my new pc (automatically enabled). Just stumbled on that, testing something else. Thought you might want to know.

As with so many things, some problems do lie with the user, not Linden. Hehe

bah, I thought you had made actual donuts (brown cake things) in world not torii And I was going to ask for some too. Oh well.
I actually am surprised that SL is even working on Vista. In most instances, its not compatable. Good for you.