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  1. The Largest Arcade In Second Life?

    I keep looking around other arcades to see if it is the largest or not, hah! :D Thanks so much!

  2. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

    Should be a switchable option... I do think Henri's Cool VL Viewer allows it though. Just need to be okay with using the V1 style GUI.

  3. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

    This is a false perception of the PBR rendering impact: fact is that with the PBR viewer, LL also optimized a whole lot the code of the rendering pipeline (especially around vertex buffers, UI, fonts rendering, etc) that got strictly no relation with PBR itself. So yes, LL's viewer v7 (and TPVs derived from it, such as FS) is, on modern hardware (especially modern GPUs), now about just as fast as ALM was in v6.6 viewers. However, once all the nice non-PBR-specific optimizations backported to a non-PBR viewer, ALM is still faster (and way faster on old GPUs, especially since it consumes much less VRAM and causes less spilling of vertex buffers over to the RAM through the PCIe bus). If you try the Cool VL Viewer current release, which can do both PBR and legacy EE/WL (and both ALM and forward modes for the latter), you will clearly see the difference in performances, due to the fact that with the same code base (same optimizations at the C++ level), the PBR shaders are more complex and taxing on the GPU than ALM shaders are. That's one of the things that makes PBR so terrible on old or weak hardware: without the forward mode, old PCs or mainstream (non-gaming) PCs with weak GPUs/iGPUs/APUs are rendering at a very low frame rate, making SLing on them a miserable experience when the same PCs were totally usable in forward rendering mode. Here again, have a try at the Cool VL Viewer, and see how much faster is the forward rendering mode compared to both PBR and ALM modes: you can easily triple the frame rates on old/weak hardware (with shadows off for ALM/PBR) !

  4. MALE playing female? Is it frowned upon?

    You're a child avatar. DENIED!

  5. Horse Football - Every Wednesday 2pm SLT

    Horse Football every Wednesday 2pm SLT Horse Rezzer provided should you need one. Easy to learn rules and a great hour spent with friends playing football and riding horses. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dragon%20Valley/191/76/2715 Feel free to message here or inworld should you have any questions :)