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Reducing Lag for surfing

The following are some suggestions to help you reduce lag with surfing during surf competitons:

  1. Detach all items that use scripts (AO’s, jewelry with bling, wings, etc.). Spectators can do this too to help.
  2. Turn off streaming audio and video if on.
  3. Change your group title to none.
  4. Change your preferences (you may not need to do all of these, just the ones you can live with):
    1. General tab
      1. Change ‘Show Names’ to ‘Never’ (you can turn this back on when you finish surfing)
      2. Select ‘Hide My Name On My Screen’
      3. Select ‘Hide My Group Title’
    2. Network tab
      1. Set your Disk Cache Size (MB) to less than 500 MB.
      2. Click ‘Clear Cache’ and relog.
    3. Graphics Detail tab
      1. Deselect ‘Enable Bumpmapping and Shiny’
      2. Deselect ‘Enable Ripple Water’
      3. Select ‘Normal’ for ‘Avatar Rendering’
      4. Select ‘Sun and moon only’
      5. Select ‘Low’ for ‘Terrain Detail’
      6. Move the slide bar for ‘Object Mesh’, ‘Flexible Mesh’, ‘Tree Mesh’, and ‘Avatar Mesh’ to the far left.
    4. Adv. Graphics tab
      1. Deselect ‘Anisotropic Filtering (slower when enabled)’
    5. Audio & Video tab (I don’t recommend doing this)
      1. Move all the slide bars to the far left. Remember to move these back after you surf.

– compiled for your surfing pleasure, by Malcolm, the King of Lag.

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3 Responses to “Reducing Lag for surfing”

  1. Flynn Sheridan Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 3:46 am

    Thank you for ways to reduce the lag! Malcolm, the King of Lag, I will be passing this on to all at Hedon, and appreciate your effort to improve our surfing pleasure!

  2. SweetMandy Kline Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 5:58 am

    Hey Mally, thanks for the tips on lag …
    It’s troublesome for me too and many of us!
    *hugs* SMK

    Happy surfing everyone!!

  3. Surferjoe Wind Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    For advanced users here is a couple of things.

    First, if you have a Nvidia or ATI graphics accelerator card, there is a button on Adv. Graphics called ENABLE VBO: make sure you check the Enable OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects. Now, if you have Intel graphics board like the 950 or use the onboard graphics processor, turn this sucker off! And buy a good graphics card asap. ;)

    Next, SL likes only one processor. If you have dual processors or the new dual Intel core, open up the task manager when you load SL but before you launch it and go to the processes tab on a PC. Find Secondlife.exe and right click it. At the bottom is Set Affinity. Open that up and choose CPU 0 or CPU 1. You have to do this every time you launch SL. It saves a lot of gradual slowdown as you spend time in SL

    Last, CNTRL SHFT 1 is your friend. It opens up a panel for you to see how things run. Without explaining it and boring you to tears, the very first basic panel is the most useful. You can’t really surf in SL withouo 10 fps FRAME PER SECOND. The first graph shows that. If it drops under 10, relog.

    Lastly, all those great suggestions Malcom the King points out can be clocked in this panel. As you turn things off you should see a frame rate increase. Turning them on slows you down, and you should see a decrease in frame rate. Tune yourself into 15 Frames a Second and your surfing will be much more enjoyable.

    So wax your board, tune up your computer, and wave on!

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