As We Wait Forever for Election Day Results to Arrive, Let's Watch a Sansar Experience Take Forever to Load on a High-End PC

If you're tired of refreshing Twitter or your favorite news site homepage, waiting impatiently for midterm election results, why not instead watch this Sansar experience attempt to load on a high-end computer with very decent broadband:

While some Sansar experiences are larger than entire AAA videogames, most experiences (a platform developer tells me), are about 5-8 gigs. However, watch what happens when Alexandria Brangwin attempts to load one that's relatively small:

"Most of [my specs are in] the window, i7, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB and average connection speed of 10-15 megabit per second," Ms. Brangwin tells me. (With a link speed of 100 mbs!) This specific experience, she estimates, is about half a gig. Some Sansar experiences load well, she tells me, "[But] the majority are bloated beyond what anyone would find acceptable in Second Life. I honestly don't see almost 500MB worth of detail in the scenes I do get into."

Based in New South Wales and a player of many virtual worlds and AAA games, she shot this video to illustrate her frustration.

"I suppose I'm just fed up with everyone being so okay with the bloat because they have faster Internet and can't understand why I don't too. I have been fighting the Australian telecommunications companies and federal government over it for a decade. It nearly gives me PTSD when people excuse it because it's beta or criticize my hardware as the issue... makes me feel like, 'Here we go again, there's a problem and you're just not listening because it's inconvenient'.

"My advice," she adds, "is to impose resource restrictions because the 'PC master race' [type] consider their eyes soiled if they witness a texture that isn't full 8K uncompressed glory. Up to Linden Labs if they take the advice...I'd say max 2048x2048 and mandatory compression of maybe 75%..."

She's not attacking Linden Lab, she adds. "They just need to reign in the 'Designer Diarrhea'. YouTube doesn't let anyone's video onto their platform without processing it into a more streaming friendly format first, and Sansar really needs to do the same if it is to gain a greater market... something we all could benefit from."

Speaking of which, Second Life also has much designer diarrhea, but look at what a Second Life sim looks like for her in a very short time:

 

"This Second Life 'Experience' took seconds to load." So there's that!

Comments

[Chic Aeon]

I am not exactly sure what is going on with the person reporting here but unless several folks in various parts of the globe tested, it seems unfair to assume this is the norm.

I have been to this site and while it does have some very heavy unoptimized mesh, It loaded for me in a bit over a minute on my first visit.

My specs are less than the video makers; my bandwith greater -- but not THAT much greater.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz (3298.1 MHz)
Memory: 16286 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 17134)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 980/PCIe/SSE2

I am on a 20mps DSL connection.

There are big changes coming tomorrow in Sansar. We will see how those work out and if download times indeed shorten. Since mine experiences load in under 15 seconds for most - 7 seconds for me, the changes will likely not affect my scenes.

I do agree that a majority of experiences are not well optimized and based on heavy mesh. I just don't agree that this particular experience is THAT slow for most people.

[Lennart Nilsson]

It took two minutes to load on my first visit. My specs are

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2310 CPU @ 2.90GHz (2900.03 MHz)
Memory: 12265 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 17134)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 24.21.13.9924
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 399.24

[neuro]

Just because the computer is connected to a local network at 100Mbps doesn't equate to 100Mbps link speed on the Internet connection.

[FMWA]

Exactly, it doesn't mean that its getting 100 Mbps speed in reality; though they are many speed measuring tools, most of them are not perfect as well.

[trollwatcher]

I guess Eggbert and Scamsar are building their team of trolls to combat negative reporting.

Good luck with that ski-dude.

[parth gbwa apk]

this experience gonna be on next level, lets see what happens.

[Alex Burt]

Well, Good Luck for this.