6.6.10.578172 - Performance Floater

Release Notes

Performance Floater & Auto FPS

The new performance floater can be found under the World Menu, Improve Graphics Speed. Here you can:

• See your FPS (Frames per Second)
• Adjust your graphics settings
• See the complexity of the avatars around you and set the Max Complexity.
• See your avatar’s complexity with your attachments. Here you can see a ranking of each attachment and how it may effect your performance. You can even use this menu to detach attachments.
• Your active Huds.
  

Resolved Issues

• SL-19160 'Advanced Lighting Model' is disabled in Preference if 'Atmospheric shaders' was turned in Performance floater
• SL-19126 Add a button to Graphics Presets fly-out to open Auto adjust settings
• SL-19101 AMD gaming laptop defaults to High graphics rather than High+
• SL-19096 Make "Settings affect" default to "Avatars and Scene"
• SL-19094 Move Desired frame rate to top level of Improve Graphics Speed floater
• SL-19004 Autotune doesn't try to improve settings with VSync on and target FPS 60
• SL-18991 Autotune starts too early after login-in
• SL-18979 "Reset to recommended settings" should reset Maximum render time of Avatars nearby
• SL-18978 Avatars switch to/from impostored too quickly when there is a group.
• SL-18974 Scene is simplified until FPS reaches VSync, instead of targeting Desired framerate
• SL-18973 Wait a bit after viewer regains focus before engaging the Preferred frame rate
• SL-18934 Maximum render time slider should not be adjusted if VSync is enabled and current framerate exceeds VSync framerate
• SL-18933 Maximum render time cycles if the Desired framerate is much lower than current framerate
• SL-18930 "Continuous" should say "(persists between session)"
• SL-18929 UI should indicate that setting Preferred frame rate higher than the Vsync Framerate is futile.
• SL-18923 Reset to default settings button
• SL-18922 Imposters load with attachments using Perf floater
• SL-18892 [DRTVWR-539] Mac build fails locally
• SL-18884 Dead spots around the "< Back" button in Improve Graphics Speed floater
• SL-18675 The "Your avatar complexity" table is displayed with entries in the were 0 in the " Improve graphics speed… " floater
• SL-18670 "Mesh: Objects" slider text label is not updated and has different limits compared to "Distance detail" control
• SL-18641 The 'Avatar display friends in full detail' checkbox is not working in the 'Improve Graphics Speed' 'Avatars nearby' menu
• SL-18586 [D539] Crash when opening 360 snapshot
• SL-18584 The viewer starts in small-size window mode after a clean install on a PC with an Intel HD2000/3000 graphic card
• SL-18495 Enable autofps for new users by default
• SL-18390 [OSX] The viewer cannot be opened by double click after installing
• SL-18389 [OSX] The 'media_plugin_cef' error appears in the viewer
• SL-18302 Confirm (and fix as needed) that the master Viewer branch, 32bit Windows build works as expected.
• SL-18296 'Stop' button is till toggled when desired FPS is reached
• SL-18289 Incorporate additional architecture flag in CMake generator string for VS 2022 compatibility
• SL-18273 Preferred frame rate pane should include (or reference) the VSync checkbox
• SL-18271 Hover text mentions Auto Tune button, but there is no Auto Tune button in the UI
• SL-18248 Move frame breakdown stats to 'Scene loading statistics' floater
• SL-18202 Merge FS autotune contribution and update UI of Performance floater
• SL-18130 The crashes are not received in the bugsplat crash browser after crashing on the Second Life Test 6.6.4.222452145 viewer
• SL-18089 Create a locally built Viewer from canonical source using VS 2022
• SL-18064 Determine which Microsoft runtime DLLs we should ship with the Virewer
• SL-18063 Determine which (if any) compiler flags we should add (or remove)
• SL-18062 Rebuild all the third party libraries we use in the Viewer using VS 2022
• SL-18061 Build the Viewer in TeamCity using VS 2022
• SL-18060 Determine current Visual Studio costs and those for update to VS 2022
• SL-18022 Determine if Chromium/CEF can be built using VS 2022
• SL-18021 Generate a VS 2020 build of the Viewer using current third party libraries
• SL-17541 Show the message that user is currently at maximum FPS
• SL-17238 NickyD's cmake changes
• SL-16841 Auto FPS causes stalls when shadows turn on and off.
• SL-16699 Increase default cache size
• SL-16691 Add GPU Memory Bandwidth to ViewerStats
• SL-16683 Tune presets for better performance on low end and better quality on high end
• SL-16627 AutoFPS - dynamic adjustment of preferences to maintain steady frame rate
• SL-16447 Benchmark used for determining presets is broken.
• BUG-231174 [Performance Floater project viewer] - labelling consistency
• SL-15954 Performance floater - 'Hide avatars completely' doesn't hide attached animeshes
• SL-15923 The 'Advanced Lighting' and 'Shadows' settings are not greyed out and can be changed in the Performance floater after choosing first or second shortcut
• BUG-231199 Disabling the avatar rendering type also derenders one's own avatar nametag
• SL-15737 remove context menu for self in "Avatars nearby" list
• SL-15736 Show checkmark in the menu while Improve Graphics Speed floater is open
• SL-15667 Complexity value is not updated in Advanced floater
• SL-15626 Changing quality settings does not change display or fps
• SL-15625 Low digit of fps sometimes does not display (when fps >= 100)
• SL-15581 Add the function to get median value of lltrace statistics.
• SL-15323 UX Design for Performance Floater
• SL-15297 Implement performance floater