I then realized that this is why when I run a second instance of Firestorm, that I had to minimize one of them (or cam out into the void so nothing renders) in order for the viewer that has focus not to bog down it’s frame rates. So if you were using an older 512mb video card, your performance was already suffering just using one instance of an SL viewer. Using GPU-Z and running one instance of Firestorm on SL, the viewer and the OS overhead was using about 800mb of my old video card’s VRAM, out it’s 1GB of VDDR5 memory. When I pre-ordered my GTX 980, I installed bench-marking software and monitoring tools that helped me better understand the hardware I have before my GTX 980 arrived. As a long long time user of Second Life, if you’re still using a video card with only 1GB (or less) you seriously need to upgrade to something with more.
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