Comments on: Philip Linden’s Toy Rocket Keeps Crashing

By: Seán Clancy

Seán Clancy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:01:25 +0000

“Does Philip needs (sic) to spend more time in-world? He seems a bit out of touch – but it a nice (sic) to hear that he is finally getting the idea.”

Doesn’t anyone proofread these posts? Does this outfit not have a copy editor?

Sheesh.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:13:20 +0000

even my 8800GTS can’t run it on Very High (and that’s not the max, the max is Maximum)

it poops out at 5 fps

By: Plianthro Wylie

Plianthro Wylie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:26:13 +0000

>BULLSHIT DETECTOR’S OFF THE SCALE CAPTAIN

Yeah… I wasn’t going to say anything since I thought it was pretty obvious but there’s no way that card (even the “ultra” version) is running flight sim 10 with the sliders goosed to max.

That cards specs are as follows:

Core/Memory Clock (MHz) 400/1100
Fill Rate (AA Sample / Sec) 6.4 Billion
Verticies / sec 600 Million
Memory Bandwidth 35.2 GB/s
Memory Interface 256-bit GDDR-3
Pixels per Clock (Peak) 16
Texture per Pixel* 16
Rendering Pipelines 16
(source: http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Video-Cards/Inno3D-GeForce-6800-Review/1/)

Not a bad card.

Let me address something I’ve seen on posts around these-here parts that we should all take a reflective moment for.

Proving your point by wildly embellishing the facts doesn’t help your cause, in fact to be truthful, it has the exact opposite effect and causes that which you were 100% truthful about to become sullied by the bigger glaring embellishment.

Be truthful, admit when you’re wrong and treat others with respect… and eat Oreo cookies because they are delicious.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:18:40 +0000

>nvidia ge6800 video card.
>when im not in sl,im flying microsoft flight sim 10 with all the sliders cranked
>who i let look into my puter via the web to check my drivers

BULLSHIT DETECTOR’S OFF THE SCALE CAPTAIN

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:52:41 +0000

Did anyone else notice, too, that DaveOner is addicted to forums spite and malice?

By: Plianthro Wylie

Plianthro Wylie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:36:45 +0000

I think that the blame here is a shared thing. YOU have an older computer that is obviously water cooled and overclocked (if you’re running flight sim 10 with the sliders maxed out I don’t even want to think about what heat you must be generating) but the majority of people are running a sub-standard video card and 512m of RAM.

Like I tell anyone who wants their games to run better, Upgrade your RAM and Video card.

Now there is plenty of blame on LL’s end it seems, not the least of which is padding the system requirements for gameplay…

1 out of 4 sessions end in a crash, but let’s put that into some relevent number like “25% of all sessions of 8 hours or more end in a crash” (8 hours is just a number I pulled from thin air) I wonder what WoW’s crash rate is for people having sessions lasting 8-ish hours or more…

Regardless of how the blame is assigned or balanced, a 23h 58m 45s downtime for login is a bit ridiculous in my mind…

By: Rock Ramona

Rock Ramona — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:53:52 +0000

just my 2 cents…for the past 2 weeks my puter has been crashing every 10 to fifteen minutes just after id log onto sl.i have been a hard and software hack since 1978,have built hundreds of systems,and have written code with my hacker group Cult Of The Dead Cow…so i know a teensy bit about what im talkin about.my current system i run games on is a 2.7 amd with 2 gigs of corsair,a sound blaster live sound card,and a nvidia ge6800 video card.While most of this stuff is 2 years old,it is still more than what the average sl user is using.when im not in sl,im flying microsoft flight sim 10 with all the sliders cranked and can run it all day without a hiccup,along with a slew of other new games and programs.my puter is cleaned daily by 7 differant ad ware proggies and i defrag every sunday nite.i kept getting pop ups from ll saying to reinstall my video drivers that i update once a month.so i called nvidia who i let look into my puter via the web to check my drivers and my install and they said my drivers are fine,i told them what was happening and the man told me it was Linden labs code monkeys being lazy and not covering enuff range of video drivers in their updates,that all they are initially worried ab out is the new stuff.soooo im not the crazy one with a junk puter and nvidia said they would back me up with what he said,sooo this all cant be blamed on a buncha noobs with old puters……..

By: DaveOner

DaveOner — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:33:38 +0000

A couple thoughts…

a) I love how the crack heads keep criticizing their dealer for giving them low-quality crack. This isn’t news, it’s the same shit people have been writing for the last couple years! SL crashes a lot? NO WAY! Instead of crying about shit you don’t understand try either to understand what you’re crying about or get another dealer!

If these kinds of articles had any valid information in them trying to get to the root causes of the crashes and why things are the way they are (beyond the Prokofian “outsider looking in” politics) then it wouldn’t be so damn annoying.

b) Two words: Spell Checker

By: anonyfur

anonyfur — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:48:38 +0000

lol

LL keeps more people out of SL then the PN could ever hope to.
Mebbe Phil should offer them a job, they can only improve SL.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:50:38 +0000

I have the theory that because the lindens don’t really know how to optimize code, they promise new features because they can simply tack them onto their existing codebase with very little effort because someone else already did them all.