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Cummere Mayo added a comment - 04/May/09 06:47 PM
how does it work if you turn vbo off?
Cummere, that doesn't change anything. Still the same problem. Only turning off Basic Shaders turns it into a basic water surface again, improving the framerate right away again. But doing so doesn't exactly improve the quality of the rest of SL either.
This still happens also in the Second Life 1.23.3 (121118) May 20 2009 15:45:07 (Second Life Public Nightly) version. I would like some attention for this please, as it is a serious showstopper for everyone with an 'average' computer. Everytime I am near water (and there is lots of water in SL...), my framerate drops and makes using SL next to impossible. I also like sailing my boats for instance. That's next to impossible. And sailing with the water turned off looks totally rediculous...
Lisa, the issue is not SL. It's your computer. You have an FX 5700. That is not officially supported with SL. FX 5700 is not 'average'.
Look for those cards and get them. And the priority is NOT a showstopper... ._. SL has given you options to be able to improve your framerate by making things lower quality. Yeah, it does make the SL experience have less "WOW" to it, but at least you can play it and talk with people right? If you want better graphics, change that card out for one of the above. Just a note, the windlight water shaders are a major performance hog, even on newer video cards.
With a blazingly fast 280 nVidia card, one can easily get an increase of The issue here might be the old video card, but it should be noted that the water shaders themselves are far from optimized. I feel I need to make a comment here because there is also another issue that relates to this.
The minimum system requirements that Linden posts on the website, is extremely outdated. You cant run sl anymore with a system that has the minimum requiremnets they state. Try it and see. The requirements really need to be updated, since all the changes in sl now require more cpu processing power and much more memory, for sl to be useable in any degree.Good luck if you think you can still run sl on a 800 mhz cpu with only 512 mb of memory, it justs not going to happen, I had to raise my laptop from 1 GB of memory to 2 GB of memory this year, just to keep up with the " improvements " in sl. and now its just fine again. Also I see your computer is useing an AGP slot for the video card, unfortunately AGP is now very old technology, even PCI Express slots have been upgraded to the newer version. But mabe I can offer some help, if you dont plan on getting a newer computer. Get the GeForce 7600 GS OC, we have it in our childrens computers and theirs have the old AGP 8X slots. It runs sl fine on their computer under Windows XP , so this may be an option for you, its your video card that is giveing you most of the prrolbem, I see you have 2 GB of memory, so that helps you alot. Old AGP cards are running out, because they are no longer really in production, so ill paste a link here where you can get the GeForce 7600 GS OC AGP 8X with both VGA and DVI outputs. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2427400&CatId=318 |
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Option for turning off the water movement animation, as it creates a terrible framerate drop.
