Second Life RPG

Second Life RPG (Role Playing Game) graphic rendering capability is one of the most appealing attractions to the community. Because the rendering is so artistically detailed, it is a visual delight just to outfit your avatar. If you like fantasy, your avatar can wear fairy wings and carry a book of spells. If you like warfare and drama, there is no shortage of swords, battle axes and flame throwers to choose from. You can have a wardrobe of jeweled chokers, bracelets and crowns. They are delightful to design, shop for and wear. But sometimes they just disappear and the fun gets put on hold.

Server overloads

Second Life RPG is not without its problems. Because SL is so popular , its residents log more then 40 million hours per month onto its 1,000-plus servers. So sometimes the server for a particular SL RPG area gets overloaded with users. And as with any complex application software, some parts may be scripted less efficiently than others.

Troubleshoot your computer

When that happens, you could be in the middle of playing and when you try to move your avatar, it might disappear or its movements might lag. There are a few tricks you can try from your end that might help. Try increasing your computer's bandwidth and the disk cache. Try experimenting with your computer's graphics setting to see if you can optimize its efficiency and performance.

Avatar Rendering Cost

If those things don't work, you can take a look at how much of your computer's resources your Avatar is consuming by using some advanced options in the Second Life RPG viewer. In the Advanced menu, you should be looking for the Avatar Rendering Cost or ARC. (Select Advanced, then Rendering, then Info Displays to find Avatar Rendering Cost). It will be displayed as a number in red, yellow or green above your avatar's head. The meaning of the colors is similar to the meaning of the colors in a stop light. Green means go: your avatar can move easily and is using minimal resources. Yellow means your scripts are starting to use a lot of resources. Red means your avatar is using a lot of resources, it won't automatically be at full stop, especially if the Sim you're in has low traffic at the time.

Simplify your avatar

But if Red is displaying when your avatar starts displaying problem behavior, then you can start decreasing the load by removing unnecessary accessories and simplifying your avatar's outfit. If that doesn't help, there is a good chance that the cause of the problem is an overcrowded Sim. When that's the case, if you have done all the optimizing you can do on your end in Second Life RPG, then you just have to wait until there is less server traffic, or find a Sim that people are not using at the moment.

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