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SL seems to do a lot of that lately.

Oddly, I can get decent framerates, but everything stays grey forever.
Not grey, but a number of times I've seen avatars rendered as colored silhouettes which, while having high numbers, were well below the threshold I had set. Weird stuff.
 

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Not grey, but a number of times I've seen avatars rendered as colored silhouettes which, while having high numbers, were well below the threshold I had set. Weird stuff.
Oh, that's the not-loaded thing -- LL switched to "jellydolls" from the orange poof because it was . . . better? Firestorm still uses the orange poof tho.
 

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Oh, that's the not-loaded thing -- LL switched to "jellydolls" from the orange poof because it was . . . better? Firestorm still uses the orange poof tho.
I use Firestorm. The jelly dolls never did end up loading, so IDK what that was.
 
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Oh, that's the not-loaded thing -- LL switched to "jellydolls" from the orange poof because it was . . . better? Firestorm still uses the orange poof tho.
Ruth the all-mother has transcended into clouds and jelly dolls, but someday she shall return, to rapture us all away from the terrible evils of this world... like lag!

I use Firestorm. The jelly dolls never did end up loading, so IDK what that was.
In your graphics settings, go to the Max # of Non-impostor Avatars setting on the right hand side, 4th setting down. Drag that slider all the way to the right, where it says No Limit. That should fix that problem.
 
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I use Firestorm. The jelly dolls never did end up loading, so IDK what that was.
Maybe instead of the "complexity slider" it was triggering the texture lag prevention -- that jellydolls people too.
 
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How do I refresh textures in Black Dragon?
i get the grey avatars or other textures that take a long time or never seem to load - i dont think its specifically a black dragon thing, because it seems to happen in other viewers too - i use black dragon as my main viewer. the way i force textures to load or refresh is to zoom out so basically nothing is visible - only the sky, - wait a few seconds , then zoom back . that seems to create a refresh.
 
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It's been worse since LL moved everything to "the cloud."

I can run around at reasonable FPS, but everything stays gray for ten minutes.

In addition to the "zoom out until you see nothing," you can try fiddling the draw distance back and forth, but that doesn't seem to work as well anymore.
 
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How do I refresh textures in Black Dragon?
Yea there is no refresh textures in Black Dragon. I haven't been online enough lately to judge if i'm experiencing similar issues but i keep hearing all around that a lot of systems in general are very broken atm. Offline friend requests not working, friendlists not loading, logins not working, textures and inventory not loading, teleports not working, world map not working and so on... the list goes on and on.

Sadly there is nothing known that can be done in a case of prolonged grey. I do rarely get those too, usually when other systems fail as well after several rapid succession relogs (which SL really does not like). The only way to fix this is either a relog or bite the sour apple and wait (which usually takes a couple minutes before the Viewer finally gets unstuck and basically almost instantly loads everything)
 
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The best solution I've found for prolonged gray remains zooming way out until the region isn't visible, then pulling back in. That usually shakes things out. I notice it most of all when I first log in for the day.
 

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The best solution I've found for prolonged gray remains zooming way out until the region isn't visible, then pulling back in. That usually shakes things out. I notice it most of all when I first log in for the day.
Mh. I haven't had any success with that yet, if everything stays gray for a prolonged time, theres essentially nothing i can do other than waiting. Also i should not teleport around as it just prolonges it even further. Luckily its rare.
 

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There's a Discord, too. It's pretty active.
The link is on Niran's blog, iirc.
 

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A pre-release (test) version of update 4.0 can be downloaded from the Google Drive folder (via alternative link from the blog) for anyone interesting in testing most of the new changes and finding bugs before it goes live on 19th.
 
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Sounds like a problem with conditioning.
Nah, it's just what happens when you're real depressed but not cool enough to be Goth.