@Lelani Carver It's strange to see what kinds of hardware have problems with Second Life and OpenSim, especially the Firestorm viewer.

I'm mostly on six-year-old upper-mid-range hardware. Ryzen 5 3600X, Radeon RX 590, both on a modest MSI B450 mainboard. This is far from high-end gaming hardware. OS is Debian, graphics driver is open-source and issued by Debian. I don't even have any configuration UI for my graphics hardware. Ask gamers, and they'll tell you I shouldn't be able to do anything with this setup.

And yet, Firestorm 7 gives me much higher frame rates with shadows on and a 256m viewing distance than Firestorm 6 gave me with shadows off and a 128m viewing distance. Even with crazy complex avatars around, I think I never go below 30fps. And I've got a 60fps cap myself.

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@Austin Tate I guess it'll really only work on USB VR headsets attached to machines with fairly recent, fairly high-end hardware, especially if guaranteed 60fps are the goal.

I'm running upper-mid-range hardware from ca. 2018, and I'm one of the lucky few OpenSim users for whom Firestorm 7.1.9 works well enough to have become the new daily driver, also because it's so fast. Still, with a few more avatars in my field of vision, the fps drop under 60 even with shadows and ambient occlusion off. And that's without VR.

I guess stand-alone headsets with passively-cooled mobile hardware won't stand a chance.

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