Beer: Beer Opening and Pouring Robot is the Pinnacle of Human Achievement

Beer: Beer Opening and Pouring Robot is the Pinnacle of Human Achievement

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What do I do if I experience poor performance on a dual-core computer?

From the Second Life Knowledge Base, some possiibly useful information for those with dual core processors:

Second Life Info > Knowledge Base > Support > Performance and Stability > ;What do I do if I experience poor performance on a dual-core computer?

The following info has been contributed by Kona, Fordak, and Steve Linden:

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Dual core processor machines (Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64X2…etc) have been proliferating in the market since late last year, and as a result, more of our Residents are using this type of PC. Unfortunately, Second Life isn’t currently optimized for dual core processor setups.If you’re reporting poor performance and you’re running a dual core machine, please do the following:

• While running SL (or at least have the SL client login up), bringup the Windows Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+Delete
• Select the Processes tab, and locate SecondLife.exe listed underImage Name
• Right-click on SecondLife.exe, and from the dropdown, select “SetAffinity…”
• When the Processor Affinity window pops up, you’ll most likely notice that two CPUs are selected, CPU 0 & CPU 1. Select only one of the CPUs, then click on OK.

Affinity will reset back to using both processors after you log off SL. You will need to repeat the process above after you log back onto SL.

To see if you’re running a dual core processor machine, do the following:

• Bring up the Windows Task Manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+Del
• Select the Performance tab
• If you see TWO graphs in the CPU Usage History section, you’re running a dual core processor setup.

What may also help you cut down on rendering “lag” is turning on the Client menu and selecting Client > Rendering > Use VBO. Vertex Buffer Objects in Second Life are still in development, so consider it experimental, but it made a lot of noticeable difference for me (Torley Linden). Please see this entry on my own blog for more context.

Additional info:

One of the following applications can be used to permanently change the affinity of a process/application:

• ImageCfg
• WinLauncherXP
• XCPU

If you’re running an AMD Dual Core system, you should install AMD’s hotfix which is located here:
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=430

If the hotfix isn’t enough, you can use a little application called Imagecfg that will allow you to permanently change the affinity of a process/application:
http://www.robpol86.com/Pages/imagecfg.php

You can also use other similar programs that set the affinity of an application, such as those listed below:

WinLauncherXP
http://www.majorgeeks.com/WinLauncherXP_d870.html

XCPU
http://www.appliedvisual.com/xcpu.htm

Also, you can create a batch script so the affinity settings persist between logins:

1. Make a text file with the following contents:c:
   cd \\Program Files\\SecondLife
   imagecfg -a 0×1 SecondLife.exeand then rename the suffix “.txt” to “.bat” and run it while Second Life is closed.
2. Start Second Life and confirm affinity is set to only one core.
   You’ll need to do this each time you’ve updated to a new version of Second Life.

Note that this information might well be out of date or not apply – I have put this here so that people can get to it without having to be logged in to the Second Life Knowledge Base.

There is a wealth of useful information in the Second Life Knowledge Base. It’s a shame that you can’t open in and leave it open in a tab in the background without having it bug you about timing out every ten minutes.

SLUniverse forums on the wall browser in the Twinity virtual world

Twinity – SLUniverse forums on the wall browser in the Twinity virtual world

Originally uploaded by SuezanneC Baskerville

Posting in the SLUniverse.com forums using the wall browser in the Twinity virtual world.

In a virtual world designed to let the the browser component interface with the virtual world, complex web pages could serve as control panels for inworld objects, as well as allowing people to sit in the virtual world together and watch youtube videos, among many other possible uses.

Twinity virtual world – some early shots

This is the Twinity virtual world as scene in the days prior to and including 12-21-07.

Virtual world enthusiasts and other interested parties should check out http://twinity.com to apply for the testing program.

Twinity – a photoset on Flickr

Soup.io – gather your web selves together for easy viewing

Soup.io is a pretty neat site. You tell it about your Twitter site and your WordPress blog and your Flickr site and it monitors them and provide a means of looking at them merged into one chronological stream.

Check out my soup stream at http://suezanne.soup.io .

You may not find my soup to your liking but someone else is bound to make a flavor you will enjoy. Perhaps you should try your hand at making some some soup de Your at http://soup.io .

Suezanne’s soup

For language learning try Livemocha

Livemocha looks like it should be a good site for those wanting to learn additional languages. My daughter is taking French and Spanish in school and is teaching herself Japanese on her own and plans to take the AP Advanced Placement test in Japanese based on her independent study. I am thus going to make sure that she gives this site a good looking at.

Livemocha: Learn Languages and Practice with Native Speakers

Worlds Chat – My life is complete – I have found the Worlds Hanson Superstore

Worlds Chat – My life is complete – I have found the Worlds Hanson Superstore

Originally uploaded by SuezanneC Baskerville

Worlds (aka Worlds Chat) has a bunch of different places requiring you to download and restart. One of these is the Hanson Superstore.

Uploaded by SuezanneC Baskerville on 20 Dec 07, 12.14AM CST.

Worlds Virtual World – where is Worlds 2?

Originally uploaded by SuezanneC Baskerville

www.worlds.com is the home of an old virtual world or 3D chat simply called “Worlds”.

The website says there will be a Worlds 2.0 that looks a lot better than this in Fall or 2007.

I think it is time for some further word from the company about this.

Jurin Juran mentioned Worlds lately so I checked it out again. I had an old registration from 2005 as SuezanneC, so if you happen to ever SuezanneC in the old Worlds virtual world, that’s me.

SLuniverse – long running SL website

SLUniverse, operated by SL user Cristiano Midnight, is one of the oldest Second Life related user operated web sites. SLuniverse is home to a forum and the quite successful image storage site Snapzilla.

SLUniverse Home

Komuso Tokugawa – live blues in Second Life

Komuso Tokugawa played Saturday night, December 15th at the Lil Slurgis 1st Year Anniversary Bash at

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lil%20Sturgis%201/53/87/34/?title=Lil%20STURGIS

For more info check out

http://www.sonicviz.com/music/members/6/

It’s good stuff.

He plays guitar and sings, and does both quite well.

I happen to like the exact style of blues he plays and sings so I am in luck.

There’s a machinima he made at

http://www.sonicviz.com/music/members/6/4_video.php