I'm not too familiar with Alchemy, a third party SL viewer registered on the official Wiki, but YouTuber Luca says (and shows, above) how well it performs versus Firestorm (the most popular SL viewer) -- assuming you have a powerful GPU.
"I get about 2-3x the performance," Luca tells me. "But generally from people who reported that they got improvement from it, they usually got like 2x the performance! Some people said they didn't get any at all, though."
So the difference seems to vary widely from PC to PC. As Luca goes on:
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Readers Review the Alchemy Viewer for SL
Demo video by Pepe Kuno, who notes: "Finally smooth. Firestorm was killing me with the lag.
Last week's most socially shared post by far is this one on the third party SL viewer known as Alchemy, which suggests to me that many are looking for an alternative to the popular Firestorm viewer. Readers weigh in on the pros and cons:
Contrary to that, a reader named "Lemmy" reports: "I tried using my recent MacBook Pro, and I’m getting half the framerate I would using Firestorm." So apparently Mac mileage may vary.
Another reader has some tips on using Alchemy on a PC:
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Posted on Monday, June 15, 2020 at 02:56 PM in Comment of the Week, SL viewer news | Permalink | Comments (2)
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