Pushing the Limits: Standard SL Viewer vs. Snowglobe

Comparing the standard SL Viewer (1.23.4) with Snowglobe, which downloads textures via HTTP and not by the usual streaming processes.

Snowglobe is available from http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php

Remember, you need to activate HTTP Get Textures from the Rendering submenu under Advanced.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• second life
• snowglobe

[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.

[GwynethLlewelyn]

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

[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!

[Droideka133]

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

[bsharker]

Thanks for vid. I'm downloading snowglobe 2.0 now

[GwynethLlewelyn]

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

[lindseywarwick]

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

[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