Pushing the Limits: Standard SL Viewer vs. Snowglobe

[Droideka133]

I can't use custom on my grapchis for the simple viewer, u have any Idea why?

[johanlaurasia]

Viewer 2.0 loads fast like that too, didn't they merge those changes from the snowglobe trunk into 2.0?

[GwynethLlewelyn]

@johanlaurasia Yes, they did: most of the work put into the Snowglobe revamped renderer is on 2.0.1 now.

[bsharker]

Thanks for vid. I'm downloading snowglobe 2.0 now

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Oh. btw: current versions of Snowglobe are still faster than what's shown on this video (which is almost 8 months old :)

[emergencystopping]

I was wondering about this. I downloaded snowglobe today, wondering if it would be cool in any way, without any prior knowledge of it. I started it up and I was thinking "this thing is moving lightning fast. am i imagining things?" So I google searched to see if that is the case or I was just in some kind of bizzaro world or maybe my observations (as they usually are) incorrect. So it is faster, it seems, after watching this.

[soulcalibur22]

thats a negative

[StealthModeLondon]

Sweet as a nut! Check out the max bandwidth slider ;)

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Pretty useful, I agree — the trick is to slide it down if your connection is not good or the CPU cannot handle processing so much traffic; or, if you have an awesome connection and a super-powerful CPU, slide it as up as you can!

[sassysinful]

wooohooo my red boxes are famous now , great vid :)

xoxSasyxox

[mazack00]

pretty cool. thanks for uploading a comparison.

i thought the new implementations would bog down servers but according to LL, it's the opposite, so yay \o/

[Pixietale]

Thank you, Gwyneth.

I had 7 alternate viewers installed to evaluate last week and had settled on Emerald, then Gemini.

Just as I had completed that, the announcement on SnowGlobe.

You evaluation had caused me to look at it and I agree: it's stunning. Like the Kirsten's Viewer, but with the latest bug fixes from LL.

Thank you for your work! I'm back to LL viewer again. LOL.

For me, the rez performance is far more important than say "double-click to TP" or "built-in radar".

:)

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Oh I understand you perfectly! I totally love the extra features from Emerald and simply adore the Inventory options from Imprudence, but my choice has always been Kirstens Viewer for its incredible performance — ultimately, when choosing between "features" and "raw performance", on my underpowered computers, I always tend to choose the latter. Now that Snowglobe has beaten Kirstens Viewer on texture download speed and has the same performance and display quality, I'll stick to it :)

[Pixietale]

Looks good. What are your machine specs?

I usually get far better performance with my mid 2008 MacBook Pro than I do with my high-octane-designed for Vista-running-on-XP Windows box - and that's with the regular LL viewer.

So I'm curious where to set the benchmark. :)

[GwynethLlewelyn]

The above shots come from a 2007 iMac with an ATI Radeon X1600 that SL reports to hve only 64 MB of vRAM (although it's supposed to have 128...).

You're right... I've tried a test with a very similar card on a PC (with a slightly faster CPU and the same RAM, 2 GB) running Windows XP, and... I consistently get less than half of the FPS on Windows. I can't explain why. The PC is from my roomie and I'm considering buying a better card for her...

[lindseywarwick]

only a 128mb GPU? That thing should have been thrown in the trash like 8 years ago

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Why? As you can see it still works with Second Life :) Why throw away something that actually works well?

[crystalclearfilms]

This is great! Thanks for the video. One off topic question, what software did you use to write the ballons?

[GwynethLlewelyn]

None whatsoever! It's the Annotation feature of YouTube :) I was considering uploading the video elsewhere, but to do the balloons, it's so much easier on YouTube...

[crystalclearfilms]

Thanks Gwyneth! I just saw this feature on youtube. :-)