Extra performance boosts have been added to this release for that extra FPS. The enhanced texture memory tracking, broader hardware compatibility and higher FPS gain are sure to provide a smoother Second Life experience.
With ExtraFPS also comes extra features:
New “HDR and Emissive” found in Advanced, Graphics settings, specifically to increase performance on old machines.
This mode enables/disables HDR and Emissive which will make much of the world appear like it did before 7.x based viewers.
Filters on object Inventory to help manage those largely stocked prims.
A new checkbox to show/hide the voice dot above avatars (see Preferences>Sound & Media).
Your dot on the minimap is now white in order to distinguish against all your nearby friends.
Graphics folks rejoice as we introduce:
New Antialiasing setting SMAA.
Contrast Adaptive Sharpening.
Additional tonemapper: Khronos Neutral. (Presently, can be set via Advanced Graphics Preferences)
Exposure has been reset to 1.0
Default tonemapper reset to ACES with small mix towards linear
Further changes include crash fixes, squashed bugs and webRTC improvements. See below for more details.
viewer#2625 slow rate of LSL control event makes fast vehicles difficult to drive
viewer#1472 Mirror preferences should update when Graphics Quality is adjusted.
viewer#2627 The 'Internal error from verifier' error appears after trying to save changes to a Day Cycle
viewer#2637 Projected texture is visible on an alpha blending surface
viewer#2646 The "Physics Shape Type" parameter is changed back to the "None" option after choosing the "Prim" or "Convex Hull" option in the "Features" tab of the "Build" floater
viewer#2632 Reflection probe ambiance of 0 is still receiving tonemapping
viewer#2653 Saving textures to hard drive usually fails on DeltaFPS
viewer#2648 The "Day Offset (hours)" option takes a value of the "Day Lenght (hours)" option after setting the "Day Offset (hours)" to "0" value in the "Environment" tab of the "Region/Estate" floater
viewer#2735 Resaving does not save changes to the Day Cycle
viewer#2705 [ExtraFPS] Environment edit & personal lighting not fully responsive
viewer#3157 [Intel 4400] Alpha textures are not receiving Ambient light.
viewer#3167 The viewer, launched on video cards with OpenGL version lower than 4.6 for Windows and lower than 4.1 on OSX, has default graphics settings as Low+ and does not enable the "Vintage mode" option
viewer#3171 Exposure setting enabled in Vintage mode
viewer#3170 Tone Mapping Mix slider broken with PBR skies
viewer#3172 Sharpening slider is broken with Vintage mode
viewer#3164 PBR Emissive only shows when switching *from* Low graphics quality setting.
viewer#3147 An image is not shown in the "Change Folder Image" floater after assigning an image to the outfit folder in the "Outfit Gallery" tab of the "Outfits" floater
viewer-private#274 'Transforms' setting appears when RenderTerrainPBRTransformsEnabled setting is FALSE after relog to the viewer
viewer-private#278 Teleported user has not disappeared from the observer's "Nearby chat" after teleporting from WebRTC to the Vivox or WebRTC region
viewer-private#281 After disconnecting from a group voice call, Users A and C are incorrectly shown in the Group voice chat instead of Nearby voice chat when User A teleports to User C's location
viewer-private#283 UserB is automatically added to the call without showing the "Answer" and "Ignore" buttons after the transition from WebRTC to Vivox and second call in the group voice chat
viewer-private#284 Group voice option is disabled after IM voice call on the region with disabled voice chat on estate
viewer-private#286 p2p voice call UI is sometimes disabled when parcel voice is disabled
viewer-private#285 Mute icon not displayed on avatar after using "Mute this participant" and "Mute everyone" option in WebRTC
viewer-private#291 Object floating text does not update without moving camera
viewer-private#325 Objects rendered in "Firestorm" appear with depth and shadows, while objects in "Second Life" appear flat and lack shadows with Midday (Legacy) environment
viewer-private#327 Color mismatch Between Midpoint Gray Blinn-Phong and PBR Spheres