Aliyah Guerrero
Trapped in a Box
More specifically, I've spent the last decade trapped inside the box that is my computer, with the limited means I've had to upgrade it and not knowing how or what upgrades to make to truly improve it. Blah blah blah, cry cry cry.
I make this post today because that's all finally ending. 6-7 years ago I upgraded my graphics card to the crappy one I've been using just so I could EVEN load SL at all, but it was never really an experience to enjoy. I was always trapped in bad sims, or small spaces, and if not for my BFF I'd of gone nuts and would've only been able to rise my own props in sandboxes that also lagged like hell.
Buttttttt, I convinced the IT guy at work to sell me his old card, which is at least a solid 4 times better than the one I've been using and I'm hoping that solves my issues. Maybe not forever, but at least so the pictures I take can look half-decent, and the shadows don't look pixelated LIKE THIS PHOTO! Like seriously look at my hand shadow, my HEAD's hairline! Yuck so bad. To even get those shadows at all pumps my machine for all the juice it's got, and half the time instead of the photo I get a crash, but regardless what's the point of using better viewers if my graphics card maxes out long before it gets anywhere close to where I want the photo to be.
So thank you Black Dragon viewer for showing me how fast I was hitting max capacity, which is long before I stopped pushing up those sliders, and showing me my crashes were most likely the fact I was probably putting my computer 3-4x over the limit. This "new" used card has 8 gigs, which may not sound like a lot, but it's a big upgrade from 2, and if it doesn't work then F it, I'll sell it and buy a better one later, but at least for now it'll stop the pain and hopefully stop the crashes.
Trapped in a Box
More specifically, I've spent the last decade trapped inside the box that is my computer, with the limited means I've had to upgrade it and not knowing how or what upgrades to make to truly improve it. Blah blah blah, cry cry cry.
I make this post today because that's all finally ending. 6-7 years ago I upgraded my graphics card to the crappy one I've been using just so I could EVEN load SL at all, but it was never really an experience to enjoy. I was always trapped in bad sims, or small spaces, and if not for my BFF I'd of gone nuts and would've only been able to rise my own props in sandboxes that also lagged like hell.
Buttttttt, I convinced the IT guy at work to sell me his old card, which is at least a solid 4 times better than the one I've been using and I'm hoping that solves my issues. Maybe not forever, but at least so the pictures I take can look half-decent, and the shadows don't look pixelated LIKE THIS PHOTO! Like seriously look at my hand shadow, my HEAD's hairline! Yuck so bad. To even get those shadows at all pumps my machine for all the juice it's got, and half the time instead of the photo I get a crash, but regardless what's the point of using better viewers if my graphics card maxes out long before it gets anywhere close to where I want the photo to be.
So thank you Black Dragon viewer for showing me how fast I was hitting max capacity, which is long before I stopped pushing up those sliders, and showing me my crashes were most likely the fact I was probably putting my computer 3-4x over the limit. This "new" used card has 8 gigs, which may not sound like a lot, but it's a big upgrade from 2, and if it doesn't work then F it, I'll sell it and buy a better one later, but at least for now it'll stop the pain and hopefully stop the crashes.