SL Target Audience (was RE: [sldev] branches/shadow-draft missingllrender.cpp)

[Eric M. Tulla (BigPapi Linden)]

Nicholas Chase wrote:
> Here here.  One thing I keep hearing about There is how it can run on 
> a 56K modem.  Not that I think we want to go THAT far, but if we ever 
> want SL to be ubiquitous, it should be usable on a machine that was 
> made at least 3-4 years ago.
For what it's worth, the GeForce 6 was introduced 4 years ago and the 
GeForce 7 was introduced 3 years ago.  We actually currently support 8 
year old hardware (GeForce 2 series), which is very generous for a 
current 3d app.  Sadly the biggest issue is the myriad of business 
machines and notebooks that don't really do 3d acceleration.  :( 

That said, we're still putting lots of effort into giving users with 
these types of hardware the best experience that we can.  And like soft 
mentioned, WindLight on low graphics settings is supposed to give 
similar or faster performance on the same hardware than the pre-WL 
client at default settings (which it does on most hardware).  Cases 
where this isn't true are bugs, so the more data we see in such cases 
the easier it would be for us to track down and fix.

-Eric