Feature Requests

PBR has knocked a lot of us out of SL due to unusable frame rates of 4-6fps or worse. The choice to do a cut-over to PBR with no backwards comparability option available for people with older computers was clearly a mistake. If Phillip Linden needed to personally email us all to test the new viewer version it means we lost a lot of Residents. By the way, the new viewer Phillip asked us to try is still giving the unplayable 6fps for me. Secondlife is NOT Fortnite; Our residents are not hardcore Gamers with the latest hardware. Secondlife was the game that until recently was still playable on 20 year old graphics hardware, which helps greatly with player retention. Lets not lose that inclusiveness! The SL Viewer has always been able to turn off features that are overly taxing for people's computers and should retain that functionality going forward, even if it means we need to include two graphics engines for a few years while people upgrade.

As recent upgrades on the go are focusing on getting a better performance, Jpeg XL would make better quality smaller size files (quicker to load). It outperforms all other image formats in terms of image quality and compression ratio (in both the lossless and lossy modes), and many other factors. Cf. https://jpegxl.info/ Here is a good and easy to understand comparison too to some other formats: https://beebom.com/what-is-jpeg-xl/

Allow us to have regions with 10K LI.