

See also Technical overview of Second Life security.

Choose Me > Preferences > Sound & Media.Move the settings on the Mesh detail sliders to "Mid" or "Low."Īutomatically playing music and media can be very demanding on some PC equipment.Move the Quality and speed slider to Low.Optimize your preferences to help Second Life run more efficiently. Always use a hardwired connection if possible. Important: Second Life allows but does not support wireless connections. Even though we don't offer a fully 64-bit viewer for Second Life as of July 2014, our statistics show that Second Life running on 64-bit operating systems crashes half as often as on 32-bit systems. Use a 64-bit version of Windows if you can.Our statistics show that 10.9.3 crashes one third less than 10.7.5.

If you are using Mac OSX, upgrade to 10.9.3.Our statistics show that Second Life crashes half as often on Windows 8.1 compared to Windows 8.0. If you are using Windows 8, make sure you have upgraded to Windows 8.1.If it is, your system may be running low on memory and using hard drive swap space instead, which is significantly slower.īased on statistics collected by Linden Lab: Check to see if your hard drive light is showing a lot of activity.See Using Second Life with a firewall for more information.

Make sure your firewalls are properly configured.The latest driver is not always the best. Search the Second Life Community for posts on your video card. Make sure you have working drivers for your video card.A slower processor, older video card, or low memory can contribute to slow frame rates. It's best to exceed them to prevent bottlenecks, since they are the bare minimum required to run Second Life. Make sure your computer meets the Minimum system requirements.Using anti-Malware software to remove spyware, virues, and other malware.įollow the recommendations here to improve overall performance of Second Life and address many common problems.Defragmenting your disk drive regularly.Routinely removing unwanted files and programs from the system.
