Happy Friday everyone! A new 1.20 Release Candidate Viewer (RC2) is now available with fixes based on issues reported in RC0 and RC1. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.20 (RC2) Release Candidate viewer. The Linux viewer crashes on startup found in RC1 have been fixed and the Korean, Japanese and German viewer crashes found in RC1 have also been addressed. Source code will be available for download soon. We’re still working on a complete fix for the Mighty Mouse issue, but in the mean time... lire la suite
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A new 1.20 Release Candidate Viewer (RC2) is now available with fixes based on issues reported in RC0 and RC1. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.20 (RC2) Release Candidate viewer. The Linux viewer crashes on startup found in RC1 have been fixed and the Korean, Japanese and German viewer crashes found in RC1 have also been addressed. Source code will be available for download soon. · Release Notes launch every time 1.20 RC2 is started on Mac · To stop this from happening, launch RC2, dismiss the Release Notes, and quit Second Life without logging in · Release Notes will not appear on the next start of the RC2 viewer As a reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please download the Second Life 1.20 (RC2) Release Candidate viewer only if you're interested in helping us test these optional viewers. · New art for progress bars Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker. Be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.20 Release Candidate“. Resident participation is always welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PDT time) inworld bug triages, too!
3 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC2Available” There is a lot a flack given in these feedback areas after a new release candidate. But overall LL is remarkably aware and responsive to their users' issues. Almost everyone didn't like the placement of the Release Keys button in RC 1.19.0 and 1.19.1 and now its moved. There was an issue with how media streams were being turned off automatically on stream change and it's fixed. Theses are but two examples.
3 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC3Available” “Why do I have to download a new RC as soon as it is available?” The point of RC viewers is to get bug reports about the viewers before they become the default download. Therefore, we want attention focused on the latest and greatest. Once we have RC3 available, getting bug reports about RC2 just costs everyone time. If frequent updates aren’t your thing, stick with the default viewer. That text is shared with the page used for the main viewer. We’re planning on updating the splash screen logic, but have been working on more important bugs.
60 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.1 RC1Available” i want this too but i dread the prospects of finding out what 20 things are broken when 1 new feature is added. Unable to navigate the new Seach All windows... Can’t log into about half the regions, crashes on TP, won’t handshake... grid wide problems or to the new client? it would be nice to keep a non-windlight viewer supported. Same issue as DXW. The only region i can log into is my home region. I can’t tp anywhere, I crash in the process. I dont believe this is specifically a windlight/release candidate viewer issue though; I’m also unable to login to other regions in the standard client, and am crashing during the teleport handshake process. Sounds more like server software. freezes SL viewer on mac at log out, need to force quit, on this new version and was the same the last version. @14 Well new features always bring problems voice came with lot of issues. And now it’s clear thw windlight is bringin much more issues, so despite @6’s irony, she is right in part... I’d like to see some more hardware support for linux voice, can’t wait for RC2. Overall FPS are still lower with atmospheric shaders on (by 10 FPS on average)...but that is not new. But here is the thing. if they highlight the Prims that cast the lights and hit EDIT... then the full value of the light’s luminance-level suddenly RETURNS to the true light-values it orginally has! And then when they close the Edit-Box... the same LOW LEVEL of face-lighting takes over again, returning the skin to that Pale, washed-out image the WL Viewer is famous for. So, the LIGHTING is there, but you can only SEE it at full-intensity when the Lighting-Prim is selected in EDIT mode. Gah... This one seems more stable. No crash for couple of hours. Havent tried snapshoting though, that was a risky thing to do in previous release. [...] collection was filmed in the 1.19.1 RC viewer and [...] 2. Particles are rendered much better than the previous WL based release (they were nearly invisible), though not nearly as good as the non-WL releases. * Crashes and viewer hangs and freezes This new release is less stable then the last one, crash reporter still isn’t working, I keep crashing every five to ten minuets. When i make a snapshot saved to my PC (ill get widescreen photo’s that way) and upload it imediatly the viewer goes poof, hard crash. First impression was good, I used the std viewer while it downloaded this morning, that ran like a bag of *r@p with hippos and waiting and all the bugs associated. In its place the new RC viewer was much smoother and my friends list worked when it loaded, things actually rezzed quicker and movement was smoother. Unlike some posts here it seems the new RC viewer suits my system better than than the std one. ...still present in linux stock viewer. Only little thing about crashlogger, sometimes work sometimes not... I’ve checked “always send” in rpeferences option but i think this isn’t a critical bug that influence viewer usability. “Only little thing about crashlogger, sometimes work sometimes not... I've checked “always send” in rpeferences option but i think this isn't a critical bug that influence viewer usability.”
52 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.1 RC4Available” # Fixed a bug causing the viewer to update the wrong parcel. Hey, do you guys notice anything that might have upped performance? I don’t know what it is, but now I am getting a good noticeable +10-20frames per second within the RC3/Windlight Candidate. I don’t think any of my options were touched and man is it great to walk around with 60+ frames. I completely agree with Spritely and Ochi. The Snapshot function is essentially DOA — aside from messing with image proportions on upload, the behavior of size constraints is very dodgy. Please make sure this is corrected before going to a wide release. I had assumed that the ability to save and restore day cycle and lighting preferences OUTSIDE the viewer would be implemented before it went to final release. It sounds like this won’t happen. How come? I downloaded RC4 last night as the RC3 told me I had to. Of course since it wasn’t an official RC release, if you downloaded it any way other than via the start page of the RC3 viewer, you just got another copy of RC3. Thanks for fixing that. hehe Anyway, I was on for four or five hours last night using RC4 with none of the viewer freezing or crashes I had with RC3. RC4 is at least as stable for me as RC2 was. At least on my Windows machine. I’ll try it on the Mac today. Do you seriously consider making v1.19.1 the “standard” viewer while it is 20 to 50% (depending on the 3D environment) slower than v1.19.0 on single core computers with equivalent graphic quality/settings (i.e. all shaders turned off in 1.19.1) ??? RC viewer's 1, 2, 3 & 4 I always freeze on log out, I always have to force quit, I made a JIRA for it when RC2 was released. * Crashes and viewer hangs and freezes This may sound daft but does anyone package up the client log in and actually use the client inworld, not just on a private grid or in simulation see the hideous memory usage after 45mins, stutters, or crashes then turn around and say yup thats good enough and just send it to joe public as the next RC...... if its glaringly BAD why release it Severe viewer lock ups and freezes, unable to use RC 4 or any RC. I installed and ran this new viewer. Got a major bug in it: it won’t accept keyboard input. Just too many freezes and crashes, especially at log off. I’m not even going to attempt to dl RC4. I’ll stick to the regular viewer for the time being. I finally got the last release candidate to work for me after retrieving a previous release candidate setup exe file from my recycling bin. From a clean start (no active SL files), downloading 3 NEVER worked enough to let me log in. And... will we ever get to the day you release source code at the same time as the compiled version? So when did these viewer updates become mandatory again? I now can’t login without updating, even though I’m very happy with the version I just got to work on my drivers I had to hack in the first place. Thanks for screwing up my user experience YET AGAIN LL. I hope one day something very bad happens as a result of this that screws you all as bad as it is me. Guess I get to go re-code my driver to work with this new pile of crap you call release software. Hell, still works better than the real version anyway. How about being unable to use any ATI graphic card drivers for integrated Motherboard/graphics cards from 7.12 to latest 8.3 which work fine with the release candidate (with shiny lcouds water etc which is really nice) for about erm 3 mins before the frame rate goes from say an avarage 10-15 >>>>>>> to >>>>> 0.5!!!!!! (FPS Client Side) and stays there for me anyway. So i’m stuck using 7.11 ATI drivers and the main viewer which is really much slower for me like 50% slower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gimme a break and yeah i am entitled to whine cause i spent a lot of time and money here and it really sucks to have viewer crash like that when it could be so good if they could just fix this bug for me. This new version is pretty good, haven’t had many problems yet, except; it seems to reset scripts. My steam, smoke and some white items come out pink,lol. I noticed with the new graphic settings that you can’t see as far on 128 draw as you could with the older versions, things come into view as you get closer to them. I have been on the new RC since only yesterday, but it has to be the best I have seen yet. Cheers all! And keep up the good work - Love teh new RC!!! How about being unable to use any ATI graphic card drivers for integrated Motherboard/graphics cards from 7.12 to latest 8.3 which work fine with the release candidate (with shiny lcouds water etc which is really nice) for about erm 3 mins before the frame rate goes from say an avarage 10-15 >>>>>>> to >>>>> 0.5!!!!!! (FPS Client Side) and stays there for me anyway. So i'm stuck using 7.11 ATI drivers and the main viewer which is really much slower for me like 50% slower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gimme a break and yeah i am entitled to whine cause i spent a lot of time and money here and it really sucks to have viewer crash like that when it could be so good if they could just fix this bug for me.”
20 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC1Available” I’m still getting regular freezes with ALL the current SL clients - the Release Version is the least freeze-y but version 1.19 of the Release Client was by far the worst yet. You get a freeze for about 10-20secs every few minutes, nothing moves, keyboard keys stick-pressed Also, does this mean there will be a new Windlight tomorrow? Putting “Release keys” where “IM received” used to be is a really bad design choice. People who actually use the viewer will be annoyed looking at who has send them a new IM, just to find useless “Release keys” there. Time for a new CTO, obviously. These guys release one big buggy piece of software after another within days instead of working on the details until they WORK. Calm down, LL guys!! Alternative: Restrict this to the beta grid again. Too many ppl go for these clients which are far away from acceptable status and get utterly disappointed (including myself). And only release them for the main grid when all the most horrible bugs are killed. New CTO or no new CTO, this RC is way less buggy since it has a lot of bug fixed. I know I’ve been trying them. And it’s nice to be able to test and discover bugs without having to go to a beta grid. I like the new communication ui changes. Please get rid of, move, hide, the Release Keys button! Why is it every time there is a new download, I can not get on for awhile after that as I keep getting a message saying DNS could not resolve host name? It seems to be a rather big problem with each new download.
Hot on the heels of Second Life 1.19.0 becoming the primary download, we’re making a new Release Candidate viewer available. Second Life 1.19.1 RC0 can now be downloaded from the test software page As a reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please try the RC viewers only if you want to participate in the bug reporting process and identify issues before they become the default viewer. You can have both a Release Candidate and the primary viewer installed side by side on your computer, so if issues are encountered when testing the RC viewer you can switch back to the production viewer. This Release Candidate contains the following new features and changes: · “Glow” as new object attribute · A new cleaned-up, easy to use Graphics Preferences tab with simple and advanced options for performance/quality settings · See release notes for list of additional rendering optimizations, too! · New API for Media Rendering · Added two new click actions, one for playing movies, and one for opening media
A new 1.19.1 Release Candidate Viewer (RC2) is now available with fixes based on issues reported in RC0 and RC1. As a reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.19.1 (RC2) Release Candidate viewer only if you’re interested in helping us test these optional viewers. Source code will be available for download soon. Changes and fixes in 1.19.1 RC2: · VWR-4963: Group archive freezes viewer Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.19.1 Release Candidate“. Resident participation is always welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PST time) inworld bug triages, too!
A new 1.19.1 Release Candidate Viewer (RC3) is now available with fixes based on issues reported in RC0, RC1 and RC2. Remember: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.19.1 (RC3) Release Candidate viewer if you're interested in helping us test these optional viewers. Source code will be available for download soon. Changes and fixes new in 1.19.1 RC3 since RC2: · Fixed: Changing viewer language selection doesn’t bring up a localized F1 Help in French, Spanish Please report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.19.1 Release Candidate“. Resident participation is always welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PST time) inworld bug triages, too!
We’re back to weekly Release Candidate releases. We increased the frequency of Release Candidate viewers last week in an attempt to gather more info/feedback on the Nvidia issues that have been reported (VWR-6343). Second Life 1.20 RC3 is now available and includes a batch of fixes to issues reported in the previous 1.20 release candidates (RC0, RC1 and RC2) and new code that we believe should address the Nvidia issues. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.20 (RC3) Release Candidate viewer. · Fixed: removed mac release notes dialog from LLAppviewer::init · Fixed: Scrollbar channel missing in 1.20 Note: If you are having problems enabling voice after running RC3, quit Second Life 1.20 RC3 and start it again. You should now be able to enable voice. As always, please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker. Be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.20 Release Candidate“. Resident participation is welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PDT time) inworld bug triages, too!