The latest First Look viewer (59492) has been released, and is available for downloading right now. What is currently the First Look viewer will become the official viewer as soon as next week. You owe it to yourself to check it out ASAP, if you haven't already, while there's still a window for more bug finding and fixing. This one contains an important fix to prevent the viewer causing extra simulator load/lag.This branch of the First Look browser contains numerous stability and performance improvements to the new rendering pipeline and caching architecture. Some people report as much as a 200% performance improvement with the First Look viewer. Others report no performance improvement at all. A lot will depend on your hardware and setup.
This one is supposed to finally fix the issues we've been having with HUD attachments wandering all over. So far with this version, mine haven't gone anywhere that they weren't supposed to. Hurrah!
Most importantly, though, it seems that for some time, the viewer has been keeping texture requests open that should have been closed or cancelled, essentially constantly occupying part of the attention of the sim all the time, and more than it deserved. The fix for this should mean a small local speed improvement for you but a much larger improvement for the performance of sims as a whole, especially busy ones. Grab this one now!
The First Look browser is a beta-test browser that runs against the main (agni) grid. If it eats your inventory, your files and your dog, that's at your own risk. You can download the First Look viewer from the usual place. This browser is a foundation to getting Second Life running under Windows Vista. Note: If you run Windows Vista, you may not be able to run Second Life at this time.
Most importantly, though, it seems that for some time, the viewer has been keeping texture requests open that should have been closed or cancelled, essentially constantly occupying part of the attention of the sim all the time, and more than it deserved. The fix for this should mean a small local speed improvement for you but a much larger improvement for the performance of sims as a whole, especially busy ones. Grab this one now!
The First Look browser is a beta-test browser that runs against the main (agni) grid. If it eats your inventory, your files and your dog, that's at your own risk. You can download the First Look viewer from the usual place. This browser is a foundation to getting Second Life running under Windows Vista. Note: If you run Windows Vista, you may not be able to run Second Life at this time.
