Tips do Reduce LAG

Hello Residents!

 Some of us really face this so called LAG. This really annoys when you are in some party, with full of people, and you want to be on the topics but you can’t because your avatar walks, see, interact and speak so slow with others, that makes you mad.

 What is LAG ?

-A lag is a symptom where result of an action appears later than expected. (See Wikipedia for more information.)

How to face LAG ?

There are few options that you can config at your application, to help you reduce lagging and make your avatar works faster.

First, you go at Preferences on the Login menu or the Gray menu while you are in-world. Then click at Network tab inside preferences, then reduce the internet connection to 350 Kbps, and cache to 300 MB.

Then you click on Graphics tab and change your Draw Distance to 64. Now at Advanced Graphics, reduce your Particle Count to less than 1500. And uncheck the Anisotropic Filtering .

It is recommended if you use a lower PC processor, to dettach all your scripted objects and HUD (Head-Up Display). I know that most of you uses most of time your AO huds or anything else, but if you want to stay on a full sim, with less lagging problem. it’s up to you.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Why reducing my Internet connection will reduce the LAG? It’s not the opposite, it means, to raise the connection?
No, it’s because Second Life uses ALL your internet connection avaliable. You have to administrate well how you use your connection to not have troubles accessing websites and etc, while you are in-world.

What about the Cache, what does it do ?

Cache is a place in your HD wich saves all your Second Life information.  More space you use to cache, more slower Second Life will be.

What is a Draw Distance?
It’s the avaliable space from enviroment that your avatar will handle to see. More higher your space, more details will be downloaded to your cache (texture, objetcs), making your pc slower and Second Life as well.

What is a Particle Count?
Is how the particles will be counted to your avatar.  Many particles, more slower it will be.

Some facts that may confirm that you are TOO MUCH addicted to Second Life…

I’ve been thinking about how much addicted to SL I am, realizing that my usual Real Life deeds are always confused to my Second life. So there is a little list of things that I realized that I always confuse to :

– I see my best friend in RL on a bench and wonder where the pink pose ball is…
– When I am at the mall in RL and think that I can buy an outfit just by pointing my hand in its direction.
– I do make a typing motion when I speak out loud. (LMAO, ive been caught so many times with that)
– When I refer to my closet as my “inventory.”
– When I see something in the distance and want to alt mouse to see it upclose!
– When i want to walk in a hight place and try to hit FLY button somewhere.
– When I want go somewhere and actually think about just teleporting there.
– When I sit to some public chair I expect to receive 2 L each 15 minutes.
– When I  enter a RL club and wonder about the missing dancing ball.
– I always wondered how could I edit myself in RL to fit in some outfit, like a shoe or that tiny skirt.
– When I see people walking by and distinguish what they’d be, a neko, vampire, elf, demon.
– If I buy an apartment and think about how many prims I can use.
– When I try to make myself in real life look like I do in second life.
– In RL I get up and see myself in a mirror and freak out because I dont see my avatar.
– When I go to a garden and wonder where all of the poseballs went to, they were here last time( oh wait thats SL)
– Get the urge to click everybodys parts, expecting the parts to whisper that they are excited.
– I trip over my own feet in RL and say oops, it’s damn lag.
– I say brb or any other SL chat speak to a RL person.
– Sometimes i use the HOO! Gesture in RL (LMAO)
– When I stand in line, (for coffee, food or whatever) and find myself standing in that ridiculous pose that comes with that new walk AO!

So, did you get familiar with any of this things? LOL