Comments on: Second Life and the dual-core deliberation

By: Torley

Torley — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:32:32 +0000

@Binky: I don't know if it is. While I don't 100% know who'd know, I'd suggest asking Tofu Linden, who's done a lot of work with the Second Life Linux viewer. Send him an IM.

By: Binky Breaker

Binky Breaker — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:57:06 +0000

Torley - sorry to bother you on your blog, but I'm having trouble finding this information elsewhere.

Any idea if SL (Linux) is now properly multithreaded? It works fine on my Pentium D (dual core) but I'm now considering an upgrade to core 2; however the decision now rests between a higher clocked duo or a lower clocked quad.

I'm sure there's others considering such upgrades too, so any guidance would be useful. More cores or higher clock?

If it matters: Linux, 4Gb RAM, Nvidia 9800GT.

Thanks

By: Mutley

Mutley — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:37 +0000

I have just built a computer with a GTX 280 and Intel quad processor just like that of above. Re question from Chris.
Having a nightmare, system crashes every 20 mins or so with blue screen of death and a full screen of info which only stays for a second before the system re-boots. Only on sl all other programmes work fine.
sl worked fine with my old four year old AMD single core system just everything now a bit slow, but at least stable.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:29:28 +0000

does anyone know if the EVGA GeForce GTX 280 Video Card - 1GB GDDR3, PCI Express and the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor 2.40GHz work for SL?

By: Torley

Torley — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:01:29 +0000

@Jo: I haven't experienced problems with running fans constantly for a long duration — the bigger potential problem here is your machine overheating, which the fans are counteracting. And hopefully the ambient room temperature is also relatively cool. I haven't run SL on my MacBook Pro a lot recently, tho. You're welcome!

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:34:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

I've played around with settings on my new macbook pro 2.4 GHz Intel core 2 duo with 4 gigs of ram and came to the conclusion that no matter what graphic setting I use my fans keep spinning at full speed all the time.
So I looked at some forums about this issue and it seems that lots of people have this problem. I solved it a bit so I think. I have installed a program called Fan Control. With this I can manually speed up the fans to run at 3000 rpm. This way my macbook runs cooler and SL runs like a baby.

My question here would be: can this constant fan speed harm my hardware? Does anyone have a better solution besides installing windows on my mac?

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Torley keep up the good work!!

By: DR Dahlgren

DR Dahlgren — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:56:21 +0000

No problem Torley. I did roll back the drives to the 163 version and my water views are back to normal. I filed in JIRA and on the NVIDIA site as well. Keep up the great work. Rainbow pie to you…

DRD

By: Torley

Torley — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:47:55 +0000

@DR: While I apologize I don't know the answer to your problem (aside from rolling back drivers?), I'd recommend filing a bug @ http://jira.secondlife.com and hopefully other people will know more.

By: DR Dahlgren

DR Dahlgren — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:52:22 +0000

I recently updated my Nvidia Drivers, 175.19, running on an SLI set of two 7600gs boards. Previously I had no problems with video and have always been very pleased with my view of the world. Now however, I can no longer see terrain under water. I can see objects fine, can see the surface as before, but terrain is just black.

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.

DRD