Playing Second Life on new MacBook

HOLY COW! This actually worked for me. I am not able to get into SL and move around and everything!

Thanks!

Tell me about it!

The best thing about this fix is, as it's SOO minor, an official fix should be only just around the corner. Can't be a big problem to get around something like that can it??

I still think it is a change that has been made to OpenGL, and that changing that setting in SL only avoids using that function in OpenGL. It's obvious that has been a default setting in SL for a while, so there must be something different about the function call. Also, because other games still crash immediately. WoW still bites the dust and I installed Nanosaur2 just for testing purposes and it too dies fast. I'm sure disabling the function in those games as well would probably fix it, I just don't now where to do it at.

Thanks again or this info!

I just added these two line and now everything seems to work fine.

Thanks for the fix.

I have the same computer as you Steve but 2 gigs ram. bought it especially for SL! How exactly did you fix the problem? Tried the link and went nowhere. Any help is appreciated!!

*Step 1:* Using a text editor like bbedit or TextMate or even Apple's TextEdit (make sure you do it in text mode not rtf) open this file:

+~/Library/Application Support/Secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml+

*Step Two:* At the bottom of the file, but before the </settings> tag, paste the following lines of text

+<!--Enable object culling based on occlusion (coverage) by other objects-->+
+<UseOcclusion value="FALSE"/>+

*Step Three:* Save the file.

Thank you David for the post and Andrew for tell to us how to use, I did it and now is working!!!!

I love my macbook, I've got since one week ago and Im learning how to use it (Im new using a mac) and i was wondering for the problems that i had when i tried to use sl before because this is a really nice machine, but now with the help everything is being good.. :):)

Thanks again!

Finally got SL to run on my new macbook. It requires you to be logged on long enough to change one setting. You MUST have "Client/Server" up on the top menu first though. (CmdOption+ShiftD for a Mac) As I could only be in world for 1 minute at a time, at best, it took a couple of tries to make this work. Go to Client menu and near the bottom is "Debug Settings" NOT "Debug". Scroll to about 1/2 inch from the bottom to "Use Occlusions" Set to False. That's it!!!

Yes, it does seem to be the Occlusions that are the trouble. This can be disabled Manually, as described by myself further up the thread, or in-game as described by Mika50 using the Debug Settings.

If you can't stay in-world long enough to use the debug settings, doing it manually by editing the text file will do the same thing.

I've been able to get into Second Life using the xml fix but I can't seem to stay in world for very long before everything gets laggy and slow... so much so that I can't even move around. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Thanks much to DiscoStewie and mica50!!! (Hope I remembered your names right from the messages page).

I got one of the new MacBooks in November and have spent the last month looking online off and on for a fix for the SL problems everyone has described, including this thread.

Last night I saw the latest posts, and in 5 minutes I was up and running for the first time on this machine. Yippee!!!!

Weird possible side-effect is that in order to "right-click" to sit or bring up Profiles and so on now requires the Command key instead of the Control key. This is only true in SL. I still use Command in Firefox and everywhere else. Strange coincidence, or did others notice this too?

No big deal. I'm just really glad to be in SL on my laptop on the sofa instead of up by myself in my office.

LD

I am as well. I fixed the Occlusion to false, and it worked for a while, but my avatar's movements turned broken and slow-sometimes even freezing for a while. I still sometimes float forwards with no control over my avatar and cannot stop (I have to log off when that happens). So, changing the Occlusions to false only works temporarily for me. (I got my new Mac in November, too)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!:)

Message was edited by: mrfuji99

ditto! I hope this gets fixed soon!

mrfuji99 wrote:
I still sometimes float forwards with no control over my avatar and cannot stop (I have to log off when that happens). So, changing the Occlusions to false only works temporarily for me. (I got my new Mac in November, too)

I have played SL on several different PPC macs, Intel macs and Windows PCs and lag and crappy performance have been standard for at least 2 years now. The only SL Client that runs absolutely amazing is the Linux client. At least the things you describe above.

Message was edited by: Andrew Mcvinnie

Mine freezes as well. Brand new MacBook. The workaround does not work. I tried running it in Parallels with XP -- no dice.

Still freezes. I thought that Parallels would solve the problem for sure, but it doesn't, which means there's a pretty serious hardware problem.