Second Life 1.23 (RC4) now available

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OK maybe it's just me but the current two clients, release and release-candidate, are amongst the most stable I've ever used and at the same time the worst-performing.

They never crash but then again they never load all visible textures, they stutter constantly, a heavy load of alpha-textures brings them to their knees, the texture cache dumps 'unused' textures way too aggressively, the frame-rate is half what it used to be - all in all they're virtually unusable...but they're stable.

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Go back to 1.14 and you will see this isn't actually new. Each and every single iteration has slowly degraded the game rate.

I guess the Lab has a difficult job getting that slider right
EyeCandySpeed

Mind you, as far as Eye Candy goes... If you go and look in other worlds you see that now 6 years long in the tooth SL is now really looking more like 1984 CGA graphics....

ie: http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1023413100-00.gif

rather than looking more 2009 technology real to life...

ie: http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3472/screenshot00059.jpg

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I go even further back than 1.14 and you're right, it's not new but it does seem to be getting worse - i keep my graphics settings pretty constant, but the performance is anything but. Problems we thought were long gone have returned, but it feels like all LL are interested in is stability metrics. That's great for Lindens who don't spend any extended time inworld or who want stat's to spin, not so good for the rest of us.

The current RC is truly appalling for me - half the UI graphics don't load and it gets worse the longer you spend online, you end up with a UI full of grey blanks. There's something seriously wrong if the UI elements, which are stored locally, don't load...

As for the dated graphics, it's true but it may be the price we pay for user-generated content. Imagine the outcry if they try to make any fundamental changes that render any existing content obsolete...

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