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Tim Alvarado

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  2. I had horrible lag when I upgraded from 2.7 to the 2.8 viewer. I turned on the Statistics Bar and found that Ping Sim was continuously over 500msec. So everything was laggy slow. I'm running SL 2.8 on a Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM and the NVIDEA GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB. Switching back to viewer 2.7 and everything is fast again with Ping Sim back to less than 100msec. After more fiddling with 2.8, i found that if i set the Graphics to "Low" the Ping Sim was under 100msec and SL was not laggy. Just turning on the "Basic Shader" check box in the Graphics preference would cause Ping Sim to go over 500msec and stay there. Uncheck the "Basic Shader" check box and Ping Sim was back down to below 100msec. So there is obviously some big bug in 2.8 that effects my MacBook Pro and GeForce 9600M graphic card. I'll stay with 2.7 until they fix this. Can anyone else duplicate my findings? Tim
  3. Regarding v2.3, you say in known issues : "Antialiasing + OS X 10.6 causes Viewer 2.3 to render the screen as a white "glow" - If you're running OSX 10.6, go to Me > Preferences > Graphics > Hardware and set 'Antialiasing' to 'Disabled'. Why is this still not fixed? I was going to download the 2.3 beta, but now I will wait. I'm too used to the SL world at 4X antialiased to view it with antialiasing disabled. As soon as antialiasing works again on Mac OS 10.6, I'll give the new viewer a try. For now, I'm forced to stay at v2.1.1.
  4. The original Tomb Raider and Thief games. They had great introductory walkthrough levels demonstrating all the skills you needed. You are right, Crap. I remember playing the first Tomb Raider and watching Laura walk around, run, jump and shoot the vicious wild dogs at the beginning. I think this is what is needed for newbies to SL. An on-screen here is how you do basic things walk through similar to what Tomb Raider had. Tim P.S. Is it really a good thing to have "Crap" as your first name?
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