Maybe some of you who follow more closely what the 2L guys do (or who go to their meetings) know something about these?
Age Verification? Personally I'd say it's face down dead in the water. I see no way Aristotele can fix their process internationally, not in Germany, France or Canada for that matter, where all the relevant informations are not at all released by the governments and where they are even protected by strong data privacy laws.
Quality Metrics? Last update seems to be in January. From what I see on JIRA I doubt that crashes went down and from my own tests with WindLight, I doubt that FPS goes up either.
I've ran my BleedingEdge against EyeCandy in various places and the frame rates were either very similar (around 10% difference indoors with many avatars around and imposters enabled) or BleedingEdge came out on top with up to 50% more frames (outdoors with few avatars around). Henri told me about similar results for Linux (and even worse results on single core machines). I guess one of the basic laws of computing still holds. Surprise: if you do more complex stuff, it takes longer :-)
As far as I can tell, the only way they could have gotten better overall frame rates was because they reset draw distance to 128 for almost everyone, but that's just spin-doctoring and not really a performance improvement in my book.
I think I remember seeing a graph that SIM crashes went down dramatically with Havok4, but I'd really like to see full metrics for the last quarter.
Friday, May 9, 2008
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Age verification was a PR stunt in the first place, only meant to cover their asses.
Yep, it was based on other residents "tattle tailing" on land owners violating a "rule" that if your land has adult content, it "must" be flagged for age verify, yet at the same time it's voluntary to do so. So contradicting.
P.R. Stunt sounds right since the media has already seen this, assume it's actually working, is now ignoring it, and LL's ass is covered.
Nothing happens with age verification. We're all enjoying moments of silence. Question is, for how long we'll have that serenity? http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/what-happened-to-the-age-verification
I think they just posted the grid metrics you're looking for on the LL main blog.
Anonymous: thanks for the tip about the updated metrics.
They're not as bad as I thought they were, I especially would have thought the crashes were higher with the 1.19 memory leak and with the bad grid performance.
With FPS I still think they are not comparable, defaulting to lower settings for most. OTOH, I guess a lot of people won't notice the difference in details ... only in higher FPS so it may not be entirely a bad thing.
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