Comments on Open Forum: What Are the Best Sites to Explore in Sansar So Far?TypePad2017-08-01T22:24:06ZSLHamlethttps://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2017/08/best-sites-sansar-social-vr/comments/atom.xml/Flashing Merlin commented on 'Open Forum: What Are the Best Sites to Explore in Sansar So Far?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01bb09b6c483970d2017-08-07T18:52:04Z2017-08-07T18:52:09ZFlashing Merlinhttp://profile.typepad.com/flashingmerlinI'm impressed that Jay Salton was able to get into Sansar, build an art gallery, and shoot a video of...<p>I'm impressed that Jay Salton was able to get into Sansar, build an art gallery, and shoot a video of it. Great work Jay!</p>
<p>I tried my laptop in two locations that had the recommended 10 mbps bandwidth. Both had the same results: The NASA Sim seemed to load, and my avatar appeared, however all I saw was a gray sky. Nothing rezzed, except one other avatar, who rezzed for a few seconds and then vanished. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.SolidStateLight.com/Sansar/NASA_8-6-17_800.JPG"></p>
<p>The amount of lag I experienced when I tried to move my avatar made SL look blazing fast by comparison. OK my laptop is not an advanced gaming model, but it runs SL with no problems. I can read specs like, “NVIDIA GTX 970 equivalent or greater,” and I guess my laptop video card doesn't qualify, but I would love to see a survey of how many SL users were able to use Sansar, and what were they using, in terms of goggles vs. desktop, computing power, video cards, and bandwidth. <br />
</p>Jay Salton commented on 'Open Forum: What Are the Best Sites to Explore in Sansar So Far?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01b7c912ae32970b2017-08-04T22:11:27Z2017-08-04T23:42:25ZJay Salton http://jaysalton.comThis is the first Virtual world I've built. I made an art gallery in Sansar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqq7n87KdB4<p>This is the first Virtual world I've built. I made an art gallery in Sansar.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqq7n87KdB4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqq7n87KdB4</a></p>Flashing Merlin commented on 'Open Forum: What Are the Best Sites to Explore in Sansar So Far?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef01b7c912a213970b2017-08-04T19:35:17Z2017-08-04T19:35:19ZFlashing Merlinhttp://profile.typepad.com/flashingmerlinEerie silence in response to this topic: four days now, but no one has posted a Sansar site they liked...<p>Eerie silence in response to this topic: four days now, but no one has posted a Sansar site they liked best.</p>
<p>I'm going to take a chance and post my experience. It's not the answer Hamlet is looking for, but it could be relevant.</p>
<p>The Sansar viewer downloaded with no problem. However, when it started to install, I soon got an error message, something like, "File overflow. Unknown file." I quit and started the installation again. Again I soon got an error message, something like, "Host not found." I gave up, and just went on to do something else. </p>
<p>When I returned to the screen, I saw it had started to install again. So I just let it run and watched. Again it stopped with an error message, but after a few minutes, started to install again. I was impressed that it could recover from errors and continue the installation.</p>
<p>That download was installing on a Win 7 laptop. I started a second installation on a Win 8 desktop, and saw the same pattern of stopping at errors. I decided to let them both run overnight. By the next morning the Win 7 installation had completed, but Win 8 was only at 70%.</p>
<p>I used the Win 7 installation to register my avatar name & ID, and then tried to enter the NASA Sim. I got the message that NASA was downloading, but that just went on, and on. I went on to something else.</p>
<p>When I finally got back, the Win 7 reported that it had stopped the NASA download because it timed out. The Win 8 installation had completed, so I tried to enter NASA on that one, but again the NASA download just went on and on. </p>
<p>By next day the Win 8 also reported timing out. I tried to use the Win 7 to enter a different SIM, but got the message that a new download was now required - something I had predicted with dread in an earlier post on here. However, the installation of that new download took less than an hour, so apparently the first installation takes the longest.</p>
<p>I realize my bandwidth here is less than optimal (although it's fine for SL), so over the weekend I'll take my laptop to a location where I will have 10 mbps and see if I can enter NASA from there.</p>
<p>From the "pile up" picture, it's obvious a lot of avatars were able to get into a Sim, but I wonder if a significant number of SL users had problems, hence the lack of responses to this topic so far. </p>