Second Life Windlight headed for release
by Tateru Nino 
Feb 28th 2008 at 1:00AM
Filed under: Betas, Real life, Patches, News items, Second Life, Free-to-play
Soft Linden said today that Windlight, which has been confined to Second Life's First Look preview viewers until now, is now on track to release and will appear in the first 1.19.1 release candidate.
No timeframe has been provided, but it appears we can expect the 1.19.0(RC4) release candidate to become the official viewer any time now and the first 1.19.1 release candidate viewer to be in front of users around the same time.
That puts Windlight's improved rendering pipeline only a few weeks away (approximately) from winding up in the mainline official viewer. Oh, there's some pretty eye-candy there too as a nice side-effect.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 12:11PM 2-28-2008
that isn't good news to some of my friends, I've heard they saying WL for them is way slower and way more unstable than the regular client, and not all of them are running weak hardware :/
I hope those glitches go away before that
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Tateru Nino said on 12:22PM 2-28-2008
I think that's a big part of the reasoning behind moving it to a release candidate. It's supposed to be faster and more reliable. In many cases so far it has been - but it needs more use to iron out the rest of the troubles.
There's even some hardware that it *should* run on that it won't run on at all. I presume that will get caught as well.
SqueezeOne Pow said on 12:28PM 2-28-2008
Nice! Now it'll look like a game from 2002!
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Jay said on 5:21AM 2-29-2008
Boo, because windlight drops my frame rates from 25fps down to 4fps even with basic shaders turned off.
It is very poor at Alpha stacking and local lights, both of these in fast timers show huge amounts of processing.
I hope they will solve the speed drop, but somehow I give that as much hope as this site loosing all the gaming guff that takes up so much of the screen.
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Timeless Prototype said on 1:48PM 2-29-2008
Oooh, the photo is of Primula Rasa on the Delphic sim (artificial life, including plants and fish).
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Corwin Chevalier said on 10:34AM 3-08-2008
Yes Timeless- Just noticed that. Awesome! Can we get more fish please- oh wait...phail...
I can throw them in...a certain variety if you like
Corwin