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8 years ago Whirly Fizzle commented at 2015-11-16T12:07:51Z
The people icon global toggle was added in the MAINT-RC: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/3.8.7.307376
Aki, are you noticing an improvement at all with the texture thrashing on the Maint-RC when people icons are globally disabled? I'm using http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/viewer-bear/rev/307716/index.html to test because it has the IM crash fixed.
It seems like even with people icons globally disabled, the icon textures are still loading into memory whenever a group chat opens. Every single texture from the chatters list, even though the textures are hidden.
This is easy to see by watching the texture console as group chats open. All the people icons from that chatters list instantly get loaded into texture memory. The texture size doesn't appear to be reduced at all either. Globally hiding the people icons does not help in any way to lower texture thrashing :(
How would you like the feature to work?
Our friends' lists currently allow users to enable or disable People Icons. This is useful for disabling download of profile pics, which was recently identified (http://blog.nalates.net/2015/01/24/texture-thrashing-2015-04/) as a major contributing factor to texture thrashing.
Unfortunately, while being able to disable this in our friends list, it is not universally available throughout the UI; while a user may have hundreds of friends, they may additionally have access to view hundreds or thousands more profiles when group chat pops up and as a result, they are forced to download hundreds of huge graphics that only ever take up a tiny area on the screen.
In preferences, it would be helpful to be able to choose between viewing People Icons or not.
On our profiles, it would also be helpful to have an extra field for People Icons, limited to say... a maximum 64x64px image size, and require the viewer to load those as People Icons instead of profile pics, which are typically much larger.
Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?
As a full time content creator, I must clear cache and relog sometimes several times daily, due to the texture thrashing problem. I do not wear any of the commonly blamed in-world products; most often I am building my own low-poly avatars with efficient textures, or building lowpoly furniture, buildings or landscaping items. But because I am a member of a number of popular chat groups, it seems like I often max out my cache due to this profile loading issue. (I could conceivably wear nothing but an alpha layer and still run in to texture thrashing issues, all due to the graphic load seen via group chat).
Allowing people affected by this problem the alternative to not load these pics at all would greatly reduce performance issues - especially in light of the recently increased maximum group limit afforded to Premium members.
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| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-9418 | | Summary | Allow global toggle of 'View People Icons' and/or restrict size of People Icons to icon size | | Type | New Feature Request | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Created at | 2015-06-07T19:54:35Z | | Updated at | 2016-04-25T23:44:32Z | ``` { 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2015-11-16T06:07:50.847-0600', 'How would you like the feature to work?': "Our friends' lists currently allow users to enable or disable People Icons. This is useful for disabling download of profile pics, which was recently identified (http://blog.nalates.net/2015/01/24/texture-thrashing-2015-04/) as a major contributing factor to texture thrashing. \r\n\r\nUnfortunately, while being able to disable this in our friends list, it is not universally available throughout the UI; while a user may have hundreds of friends, they may additionally have access to view hundreds or thousands more profiles when group chat pops up and as a result, they are forced to download hundreds of huge graphics that only ever take up a tiny area on the screen. \r\n\r\nIn preferences, it would be helpful to be able to choose between viewing People Icons or not. \r\n\r\nOn our profiles, it would also be helpful to have an extra field for People Icons, limited to say... a maximum 64x64px image size, and require the viewer to load those as People Icons instead of profile pics, which are typically much larger.", 'Severity': 'Unset', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?': 'As a full time content creator, I must clear cache and relog sometimes several times daily, due to the texture thrashing problem. I do not wear any of the commonly blamed in-world products; most often I am building my own low-poly avatars with efficient textures, or building lowpoly furniture, buildings or landscaping items. But because I am a member of a number of popular chat groups, it seems like I often max out my cache due to this profile loading issue. (I could conceivably wear nothing but an alpha layer and still run in to texture thrashing issues, all due to the graphic load seen via group chat).\r\n\r\nAllowing people affected by this problem the alternative to not load these pics at all would greatly reduce performance issues - especially in light of the recently increased maximum group limit afforded to Premium members.', } ```