Hello again, I seem to have gone notice mad, but after revising the Rules I have had a few people mention the word LAG at me and “Why wasn’t it mentioned earlier”
So, I have written up a few different solutions that could very well help reduce lag and “slide’ time between sim crossings.
xxAggy
Agatha Udimo (was sent as a notice in group and deserved Blog post…thank you Aggy!)
The following is her attachment from group notice:
A common problem people have when joining Second Life is that they do not realize how much bandwidth and space loading a Sim can be, and so, they set their bandwidth and caches to full capacity.
You should not do this, the reason being that the HIGHER your bandwidth, the HARDER your computer and internet connection has to work in order to load everything within your vicinity at a much faster rate, but by doing so this causes lag.
Now, depending on your Internet connection you could have a maximum bandwidth of 1000 Kilobytes Per Second (Kbps), or a maximum of 8000 Kbps. Of course it may vary but do not worry, the following instructions are for everyone no matter their maximum or minimum.
To start:
Click on EDIT up in the navigation bar.
Select PREFERENCES down the bottom of the drop window.
Click on the NETWORK tab.
You will now see a “Maximum Bandwidth” and a “Dist cache Size”
Drag both of these roughly in the middle for best performance. Keep in mind that yes, environments will take a little longer to load in some areas but LAG will be reduced.
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Sometimes lag can be caused because of the Graphics card you are using. There is a setting called “Anisotropic Filtering” that runs the viewer at a much slower pace and that most ADI cards cannot handle very well.
To turn this off stay in the Edit–> Preferences menu, but now click on the GRAPHICS tab. From there you will see your graphics settings, ignore that for now and look down the bottom at the HARDWARE OPTIONS button, click that.
A little box will open up with a whole lot of jumbo that to be frank, I don’t even understand, I just know what it does.
You will see a box with Anisotropic Filtering next to it, make sure the box is UN CHECKED (empty).
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Close the above box now and look at your graphics settings. I cannot personally suggest settings for you guys, because we all have such varying systems, but I do suggest not just sticking to “Low Mid High or Ultra”.
Take your time to fiddle around and play with the settings to find the best performance for your computer.
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If you stay in the same area, Edit –> Preferences but now click on Audio and Video, you’ll see the various volume bars with the speakers next to them. Contrary to belief Sound DOES take up bandwidth and space.
If you have a low end system with less that 2 gigs of ram and a hard drive smaller than 500 Gigs with less than 2 processors along with a small internet connection my suggestion is to MUTE anything you don’t need on sound wise.
You can do this by clicking on the speaker next to the various sound bars.
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I do hope this all helps you, as I do know quite a few of you are having problems with lag and crossing between Jaded Wings and Blossom.
xx Agatha Udimo
