Preeeeeeetty sure Rodvik doesn't read Plurk...

he reads SLU though

I dunno, after reading your post, I have to say my experience is very different than yours.

Granted I do log in on a regular basis, and I'm not a creator by any means, but...

1) I have always gotten my marketplace items in a timely manner (meaning 1 minute or less)

2) I wish group chat would break sometimes, seriously my groups won't STFU ever

I'm no LL fangirl by any means, but what you experienced is not my experience at all. Just saying.

Also I know you didn't want to hear about 3rd party clients but I tried out Firestorm today and I'm quite pleased with it so far, it does

exactly what I want it to do and it's not drastically different from the original client.

Same, my experience is much much different from yours, Lordfly.

no doubt. i'm just a grumpy old man.

i just don't understand what the fucks' going on.

Yes, and we love you. Gramps.

i log in maybe once a quarter, and it never works right

and i don't really care, in the grand scheme of things, i ahve other shit to worry about

but it sucks that i spent 6-some years of my life on a platform that still sucks eggs.

I hear this about the Marketplace but out of the entire time I've used it (all 3.5 years I've been in SL) I've had maybe 2 failures

i use it twice a year. it rarely works.

Maybe use it more than twice a year?

I'm not trying to be obnoxious (really!) but what you posted isn't typical for me at all.

it's weird to me, I know it usually works for me but others say it doesn't, it just proves to me that the system is wildly inconsistent

I usually don't have issues with SL, and when I do they mostly can be traced to my geriatric computer.

granted, my computer is 5 years old, but it runs everything else flawlessly (famous last words)

Yeah I bought this computer in 2007, I wouldn't even begin to know how to replace the graphics card, but I have no real complaints.

As much as LL may once have claimed otherwise, SL eats video cards for breakfast. If your computer is 5 years old,

it's no wonder you're not having the SL experience of your dreams.

from what you wrote on your SLU post though, it sounds like you at least still have the option to crank down some of your settings. You

have it easier than some.

true. but SL shouldn't be assuming my mid-range-at-best video card can do tricks around CryEngine 3.

I mean really, I'm fairly technically apt, I was amazed that SL decided my computer could run DoF and shadows/ambient occlusion just fine.

what are you running? I have a two GTX 560s and they put me 'mid range' when i can handle ultra. It should be noted, though, that for the

longest time, my video card wasn't even on the list and my prefs would be set to the lowest possible.

I do find the last few updates have been rather rushed and in some cases (such as viewer presets) decisions made were not as right as they

could have been. However I've also experienced positive results with JIRAs that have been fixed in this version having reported issues

no more than a week ago.

i'm running a single Nvidia 9800GT. I suppose it shoudl be considered "low end" by now

it should still handle atmospheric shaders in a low traffic area. If you really wanted a better FPS, you could probably turn those off and

just run basic shaders (or less). I tend to do that if i'm at a crowded location, even with the video cards I've got, since there's no

accounting for what other people wear, from a resource point of view.

my point is though, is that SL "set" those options as a "recommended" optoin. DoF? Shadows? really?

taking SL's "suggestions" at face value, I got 3 fps.

also my avatar never loaded

you know most of your issues sound like something's really clogging your connection, instead of being about graphics.

ok, but see at this point you're very deliberately being a stick in the mud. Yes, they're recommendations, but it's not like they were

the lowest options available to you. I updated my desktop machine only a few months ago and i still frequently only run a 64m draw distance

If the bells and whistles aren't as important to you, nothing is stopping you from turning them off.

Oops. You're right, LF, he does read SLU. I pulled a stupid there. And I agree with pretty much all you said, too.

Aki: Valid points, but I was looking at the situation more from an "average user" experience, one who doesn't ...

...understand why the client is recommending something their computer can't handle "out of the box".