[sldev] Why is Second-Life viewer so slow on Samsung Q1 uiltra?

[Robin Cornelius]

김승현 wrote:
> Hi~! Everyone, I'm wondering why is Second-Life viewer so slow on Samsung
> Q1 ultra?
>
>   
How slow? how many frames per second do you get? and what are the
graphics settings in settings/graphics and advanced graphics set to.
Also draw distance what is this set to?

> Is it graphics driver problem?
>
> Let’s check graphics accelerator driver Q1 has. It’s Intel GMA 950
> chipset. See the product specification
> (http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=computersperipheral
> s&type=ultramobilepc&subtype=ultramobilepc&model_cd=NP-
> Q1U/600/SEA&fullspec=F) Q1 supports DirectX 9 and OpenGL 1.4. Current
> graphics driver version that is installed on my Q1: 6.14.10.4833 and latest
> version: 6.14.10.4864. It seems that’s not key factor of our problem.
>
> Second-Life viewer self-problem?
>
>   
According to the spec that graphics card only has 128Mb of *shared*
memory so it has to share bus time to get at the memory, for a processor
intensive application that uses a lot of physical and graphics memory
this could be a bad factor.

Also how is the graphics chip connected into the system, on what bus?
Moving graphics things around is a huge overhead, i see *enormous*
difference if my graphics card is in my PCIex4 slot compared to my
PCIex16 slot. If its only on a x4 then this is not the best possible
situation.

You have 1GB of system ram which is normally acceptable (well is for me
under linux, no idea of the footprint of windows tablet).

> Official viewer may have problem with GMA 950 series but I’m not sure what
> the problem is exactly. SecondLife doesn't make good harmony with OpenGL
> 1.4 ver.? If it's true of not, what is the critical problem point? As you
> know, my point is not chipset level, but graphics API level!
>
>   

How does your processor compare to other processors? I have no idea
about the processor, when you are running can you get a %cpu usage, this
can indicate where the bottleneck is, for example my amd64 runs at about
75% CPU all the time with the viewer, its my graphics card that is my
limiting factor.




Regards

Robin