Pushing the Limits: Standard SL Viewer vs. Snowglobe

thats a negative

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

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

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

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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/

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".

:)

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 :)

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. :)

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...