Comments on: Reducing Lag for surfing http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/reducing-lag-for-surfing/ Namiko Surf Co. is a Second Life-based clothing and boardsports brand that designs apparel, accessories, boardsports gear and swimwear for Second Life avatars who love surfing, snowboarding, music and fashion. Fri, 21 May 2010 03:07:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Surferjoe Wind http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/reducing-lag-for-surfing/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Surferjoe Wind Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:17:27 +0000 http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/11/reducing-lag-for-surfing/#comment-99 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! 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!

]]> By: SweetMandy Kline http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/reducing-lag-for-surfing/comment-page-1/#comment-98 SweetMandy Kline Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:58:14 +0000 http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/11/reducing-lag-for-surfing/#comment-98 Hey Mally, thanks for the tips on lag ... It's troublesome for me too and many of us! *hugs* SMK Happy surfing everyone!! Hey Mally, thanks for the tips on lag …
It’s troublesome for me too and many of us!
*hugs* SMK

Happy surfing everyone!!

]]> By: Flynn Sheridan http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/reducing-lag-for-surfing/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Flynn Sheridan Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:46:50 +0000 http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/11/reducing-lag-for-surfing/#comment-97 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! 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!

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