Comments on: Second Life and the dual-core deliberation http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-deliberation Home of the musical Dream Journal. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Della Demonia http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-deliberation/comment-page-2#comment-51076 Della Demonia Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:14:26 +0000 http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-dilemma/#comment-51076 Wow, Torley thank you thank you thank you. I have been swearing like a pirate since trying to play SL on my new Pavillion dv5 with core 2 Duo, 4g ram, nvidia 9600 graphics... my sl has been slow and stuttery. I have a nice 3 fan cooling pad, I always run on power and take the battery out for sl as this keeps it cooler and I took your advice and "and turning up antialiasing all the way is one of the clear joys" - instant success! SL is smooth once more and flying is wonderful again. thanks again : ) Wow, Torley thank you thank you thank you. I have been swearing like a pirate since trying to play SL on my new Pavillion dv5 with core 2 Duo, 4g ram, nvidia 9600 graphics… my sl has been slow and stuttery.

I have a nice 3 fan cooling pad, I always run on power and take the battery out for sl as this keeps it cooler and I took your advice and "and turning up antialiasing all the way is one of the clear joys" – instant success! SL is smooth once more and flying is wonderful again.

thanks again : )

]]> By: Torley http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-deliberation/comment-page-2#comment-51072 Torley Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:20:00 +0000 http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-dilemma/#comment-51072 @Lili B.: It depends on your needs, and the specific setup. There's no substitute for a well-balanced system, e.g., it makes no sense to have a fast CPU and lousy GPU. I used to notice gains when manually assigning cores like that, but not currently (on my Q6600-based PC). @Lili B.: It depends on your needs, and the specific setup. There's no substitute for a well-balanced system, e.g., it makes no sense to have a fast CPU and lousy GPU.

I used to notice gains when manually assigning cores like that, but not currently (on my Q6600-based PC).

]]> By: Lili B. http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-deliberation/comment-page-2#comment-50968 Lili B. Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:37:45 +0000 http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-dilemma/#comment-50968 So, having a quad core desktop over a dual core laptop wouldn't make a difference, what matters is to go for the better, newer video card ? I'm currently considering both options for a new machine. Two years in SL and I only just now heard about this. I've been on a dual core laptop all along that I want to replace now, and just did the thing in <a href="http://suezannecbaskerville.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/what-do-i-do-if-i-experience-poor-performance-on-a-dual-core-computer/" rel="nofollow">Sue Baskerville's blog</a>, about going to the task manager and assigning a core to SL while it's running. My fps more than tripled! Admittedly, my fps has been stuck between 1.5 and 3 for over a year, so that didn't make for a noticeable difference, but wow, a lot of people would love to know about this that have no idea. By the way, the link to the knowledgebase doesn't show the intended content anymore, and I coudln't find "Use VBO" in my menu, guess it's gone ? So, having a quad core desktop over a dual core laptop wouldn't make a difference, what matters is to go for the better, newer video card ? I'm currently considering both options for a new machine.

Two years in SL and I only just now heard about this. I've been on a dual core laptop all along that I want to replace now, and just did the thing in Sue Baskerville's blog, about going to the task manager and assigning a core to SL while it's running. My fps more than tripled! Admittedly, my fps has been stuck between 1.5 and 3 for over a year, so that didn't make for a noticeable difference, but wow, a lot of people would love to know about this that have no idea. By the way, the link to the knowledgebase doesn't show the intended content anymore, and I coudln't find "Use VBO" in my menu, guess it's gone ?

]]> By: Torley http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-deliberation/comment-page-2#comment-50910 Torley Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:47:06 +0000 http://torley.com/second-life-and-the-dual-core-dilemma/#comment-50910 @Hiro: SL still doesn't make full use of multi-core machines, aside from texture decoding, supposedly, but I haven't noticed a change with that. The key benefit for me on quad-core (and now, Mac Pro with octo-core) is running SL AND other stuff at the same time. =) @Hiro: SL still doesn't make full use of multi-core machines, aside from texture decoding, supposedly, but I haven't noticed a change with that. The key benefit for me on quad-core (and now, Mac Pro with octo-core) is running SL AND other stuff at the same time. =)

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