On 24 Mar 2021, poindexter fortran said the following...
Nodoka Hanamura wrote to onky <=-
I was one or two generations of users ahead of you, having started ou in AW as a tourist I think around 2006, 2007, when I was 10-11 y/o. It's still around if you want to take a look.
I should check them out now - I *finally* have semi-decent hardware to
try it out on! Back when SecondLife was around, I was a generation of hardware (or two) behind, and it always seemed pokey.
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Yeah, you can thank Linden Lab not being arsed to update their rendering pipeline to take advantage of modern hardware - Their viewer (client) still thrashes heavily on the CPU (single-core, no less) while leaving the GPU twiddling its' damn thumbs. It's not helped by content creators making overly complex content thinking that even mid-end systems can take this without
taking a nice big shit on themselves, and on top of that, third party developers are absolutely fucking verboten from trying to fix it if they want Linden Lab approval for use on the main grid.
I could go on and on about Second Life's issues as I've been a resident for over half a decade, and as much as I love the world, It's a pain in my ass to see glaring problems neglected like they have.
As for AW, you can run it on anything and get good framerates. I highly recommend giving the major public building worlds a visit, especially Metatropolis (cofmeta), Alphaworld, AWTeen and Mars. There's also some more quirky ones like abc, AWGames and few others I can't think of. It's a
beautiful glance back at the rennaissance of the internet.
Born too late to experience the scene.
Born just in time to see it come back.
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