Tips for a Better SL Experience

Here are just a few tips that can help make SL more enjoyable!

Better Camera Settings!

Tired of the SL camera sitting several metres above your head? Feel like you're actually right there in the world with these alternate camera settings!

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Minimize Your Lag and Framerate Problems!

Try to keep your draw distance under 128m! Higher draw distance lowers framerates and increases lag!

Keep your Object Detail at or below 3. Some people who sell content will tell you to go into your debug settings and set Object Detail far higher than it's supposed to be able to go. They do this because they're trying to sell you broken content without proper LOD models.

Try to keep your avatar texture use under 100MB (100,000KB). You can check how much VRAM your avatar is using through the object inspect panel in the Firestorm viewer.  Select all of your attachments then open the inspect panel. The VRAM use will be listed in KB. Even 100MB is a lot, but SL content creators tend to use lots of large textures, even when they shouldn't. So 100MB is a more realistic goal.

Don't be shy! Be social!

Talk to people! Don't be discouraged if they don't reply! They're likely busy or AFK, not ignoring you.

If you're IMing a stranger to say hi, try saying a bit more. Introduce yourself and let them know why you're messaging them. You'll get more responses that way.

Join Groups and say hi in group chat to meet new people that way! This is a way more effective way of meeting new people than sending an instant message to a stranger.

I hope these tips help! Happy SLing!

~ Penny Patton