*plays a tiny violin* Have a great weekend :)
2010/4/4 Dale Mahalko <dmaha...@gmail.com> > I just tried using the SL 1.x client with OS grid for the first time > this weekend. Overall the experience was plain awful, on a 10 megabit > internet connection and GTX 285 1024meg > > > Oddly, when giving the SL client the OSgrid URL from the command line, > the client login page tells me that the Second Life grid is up, and > the number of concurrent users in SL, etc. Why is the client not > telling me the status of the OSgrid instead? > > On first login, the sim textures took forever to load. Like, after 5 > minutes I'm still standing in a sea of gray boxes. > > Simple physics only with the ground. All objects are phantom. I'd > think the OSGrid default login would want to showcase the > collision-resolving capabilities of the more advanced open physics > engines, but oh well. > > When I search for sandboxes to try building stuff... odd, the search > window shows me stuff from Second Life, not the OSGrid. Most teleports > fail because it appears I'm getting links to SL sims that don't accept > connections from OSGrid. Yep, I can find the Cordova Sandbox from the > search page within OSGrid. (I don't think search should list sims that > don't accept connections.) > > Searching for "osgrid" in the search window oddly turns up nothing. > How am I to find sandbox sims in OSGrid? "Oh, just open the map and > pick that way" someone tells me. Yeah that works well. the map shows > about a 10x10 grid of sims nearby, but the rest of the map doesn't > want to load. Timeout. > > I did actually manage to find another OSgrid sim to connect to, but on > join it turned out to have a ping of 6000. (It would be useful for the > search page to show a graph of the sim load for the last five minutes > so we know if a sim is lagged out BEFORE we try teleporting.) > > And oh joy, I can't now "teleport home" to where I started. The OSgrid > did something I've not seen happen on SL in a long time, where I seem > to still be connected but all the traffic meters in the client debug > (Ctrl-Shift-1) drop to 0 kbps. > > The inventory never loaded completely, even though as a new user it's > empty. > > Relogin attempts attempting to login at the home location were just as > slow and unresponsive. > > > Yep, if you don't like the new SL client developer TOS, there is sure > a great future to look forward to with the open source grid project. > :-P > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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