Saturday, July 16, 2011

Keep Version 1 Viewers Alive

I am a huge fan of version 1 viewers to use for Second Life since they have always been the most stable for me. When people make more and more of the version 2 viewers that have higher graphics usage as well as taking up a lot of computer resources then they forget that many people who come onto Second Life have laptops. I mean laptops are the wave of the future with being able to have it anywhere and anyplace. I tried Firestorm recently since I don't like how SL Viewer 2 crashes me all the time but what seemed to be a nice play on Viewer 2 turned out to be utter disaster. Firestorm it seems is not developed for wireless internet laptop users. I applaud anyone who it actually doesn't drain tons from your laptop while using it. I watched as my wireless internet connection went from 5 bars to only 3 bars for the connection speed while on Firestorm then watch it go back to 5 bars when I closed Firestorm or during its crashes. Something is not good thing when it drains connection speed. I couldn't deal with Phoenix acting up on me which I assumed it was doing that to me the past few weeks because they slowly working on closing down Phoenix viewer for the new Firestorm. It is sad really since Phoenix was working superbly for me for so long. I proceeded to look for other viewers which I knew Imprudence was not good for me after the last time I tried it and had it freeze on me so quickly into logging in. I had heard rave comments on Kirstens viewer so I downloaded it and was about to log in when my anti-virus thing went off letting me kow that this program was not safe for my computer. Hell no I am not going to use a program that does that. I'm smart enough to run away from things that potentially have a virus or open wide to hackers. No offense to Kirstens viewer but I like the health of my laptop more than getting onto SL. Now Singularity viewer didn't have a good start with me after it crashed instantly after log in but I decided to give it another try since I really didn't have any other options left on the list of third party viewer. I guess a lot of developers gave up on making new third party viewers for some unknown reasons. However, Singularity is a nice little viewer for logging into SL since it gets it done without any fancy extras to it so I can log on and go to my jobs then spend time with those I wish to be around. I had to lessen the distance rate for Singularity since I figured that and the fact that I got attacked by like 6 groups when I logged in then I might not crash much. I do wish they had the features such as mute gesture sounds because those annoy me to no end. I can't ask people to stop playing those loud gestures since I have some of my own that I use occasionally but I shouldn't have to hear the sounds associated with them. Hopefully, Singularity will provide that in there next update. ~knocks on wood this will be the last viewer I ever download~ It doing a nice job and here's to hoping.

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