FIRESTORM VIEWER 64 BIT 64 BITS

The biggest hold-up in the move to 64 bits is the Havok library. It's not universal, but it's quite widespread. The end result is a better user experience.

This tells me one thing: It's time for LL to quit stalling and embrace 64 bits.Ħ4-bit viewers are more stable, and from the reports we get from users, they perform at least as well as, if not better than, the 32-bit equivalents. We've grown to accept crappy computing in general, and that's a bug.) (At this point, I have to issue the obligatory grumble about how even a 6% crash rate is horrible to one with my background in mainframe computing, where that kind of problem rate would get someone fired. In fact, 64-bit Firestorm crashes less often than any other graphical viewer - and the difference is dramatic: for 4.6.5, it's 6.11% as opposed to 11.30% for the 32-bit version, itself one of the lowest crash rates measured. (The other is 64-bit Singularity 1.8.5, which crashed more often than Firestorm but disconnected less often for other reasons.) Not only that, but the session disconnect rate (defined as the session ending without an explicit logout by the user and without crashing) for 64-bit 4.6.1 is the only one for any Firestorm version, and only one of two for any viewer version, that's below 10%. The crash rates for those 64-bit versions are just over half those of the 32-bit versions. Two facts caught my eye this time around:įor the last two releases of Firestorm (4.6.1 and 4.6.5), there are more users of 64-bit versions than 32-bit versions. Pretty much all of the viewers now in use are at least capable of rendering materials, as well (though many users still leave Advanced Lighting Model turned off for performance reasons).

There are still substantial numbers of users on older viewer releases, but the usage of non-SSA-capable viewers is low enough that they don't show up in the statistics at all. Firestorm is still by far and away the most widely used viewer on Second Life. There are no real surprises in them they continue trends we've seen for quite a while now.

Firestorm viewer 64 bit