Mari's Mailbag - Surfing in Lag

When you begin surfing its easy to find one venue you love and surf that one lots. You should surf all venues to get a feel of all the different conditions. Waves, beaches, and lag are all different. It helps you condition for when you start competing as they use most venues for competitions.


If you avoid the ones with lag, you will have to learn to surf in the lag when events happen. At competitions there will be lag. Yes there are some things you can do to overcome lag. Here is a list. Again, I picked this up and the author isn't listed. Credit is due.

1. Detach all items that use scripts (AO's, jewellry with bling, wings, etc.). Spectators can do this too to help.
2. Change your group title to none.
3. Change your preferences (you may not need to do all of these, just the ones you can live with):
     a. General tab
          i. Change 'Show Names' to 'Never' (you can turn this back on when you finish surfing)
          ii. Select 'Hide My Name On My Screen'
          iii. Select 'Hide My Group Title'
     b. Network tab
          i. Set your Disk Cache Size (MB) to less than 500 MB.
          ii. Click 'Clear Cache' and relog.
     c. Graphics Detail tab
          i. Deselect 'Enable Bumpmapping and Shiny'
          ii. Deselect 'Enable Ripple Water'
          iii. Select 'Normal' for 'Avatar Rendering'
          iv. Select 'Sun and moon only'
          v. Select 'Low' for 'Terrain Detail'
          vi. Move the slide bar for 'Object Mesh', 'Flexible Mesh', 'Tree Mesh', and 'Avatar Mesh' to the far left.
     d. Adv. Graphics tab
          i. Deselect 'Anisotropic Filtering (slower when enabled)'
          ii. Turn down the 'Max Particles' value
     e. Audio & Video tab (I don't recommend doing this)
          i. Move all the slide bars to the far left. Remember to move these back after you surf.

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