You may need to click through to YouTube and play with the resolution settings (which go all the way up to 2160p60!) in order to get the full, bandwidth-choking effect, but here's Second Life displayed at 4K resolution. Redditor "tb_inuyasha_x" shot it with the Black Dragon viewer with some pretty impressive hardware (specs below). However, as he explains in the thread, frame rate varied hugely across Second Life:
"It was really depending on what sim I was in and how far I set the view range too... I would say some places, 8-25 FPS and others I could get 35 - 45 range... but, it was all still recordable."
Which is, well, yikes: 30 FPS is a not-bad framerate for an online world, so it's painful that FPS is still hitting below 10 in some places. Also as you'll see from shot to shot the visual appearance varies widely based on lighting presets, and frankly, the advanced age of Second Life's internal graphics.
Anyway, specs and sims shot below:
Hardware:
- Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz
- Memory - 32.00 GB RAM
- Hard Drive - 1 TB
- Operating System - Windows 10
- Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB , Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
- Sound card - NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Sims visited
- Winter Moon
- Japan Tempura Island
- Angel Manor
- Deeproot Manor
- InSilico North West Cyberpunk Roleplay
- Dragon World: Ice City
- 420 Surfin & Photography
- Innsmouth
- T O K A G O Y A [ featuring driving from Chloe Taylor (R34 GT-R) ]
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