secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Shaders sometimes do not match the shader settings after Display settings are automatically adjusted.
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- #4625 by @akleshchev — merged
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Description
Environment
Second Life Release 7.2.0.16729091892 (64bit)
Full Environment
Second Life Release 7.2.0.16729091892 (64bit)
Release Notes
You are at 204.9, 78.2, 54.6 in Bug Island 2 located at simhost-0b783bbd88a0f0f28.agni
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bug%20Island%202/205/78/55
(global coordinates 260,557.0, 249,422.0, 54.6)
Second Life Server 2025-07-25.16512260888
Release Notes
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700F (2112 MHz)
Memory: 16221 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 26100.4946)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 32.0.15.7216
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 572.16
Window size: 2560x1369
Font Size Adjustment: 96pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128m
Bandwidth: 3000kbit/s
LOD factor: 1.5
Render quality: 4
Texture memory: 12282MB
Disk cache: Max size 1638.4 MB (0.1% used)
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.10.4
Audio Driver Version: OpenAL, version 1.1 ALSOFT 1.24.2 / OpenAL Community / OpenAL Soft: OpenAL Soft
Dullahan: 1.14.0.202408091639
CEF: 118.4.1+g3dd6078+chromium-118.0.5993.54
Chromium: 118.0.5993.54
LibVLC Version: 3.0.21
Voice Server Version: Vivox 4.10.0000.32327.5fc3fe7c.5942f08
Packets Lost: 0/3,070 (0.0%)
August 21 2025 06:43:28
Description
Shaders sometimes do not match the shader settings after Display settings are automatically adjusted.
Reproduction steps
- On a machine that normally defaults SL Graphics Quality to High:
- Log in with a 7.1.10 viewer (https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/7.1.10.10800445603.html) and set the graphics to Mid+ so that water is opaque. (Preferences > Graphics > Advanced Settings > Transparent Water is Unchecked.)
- Start a 7.2.0.16729091892 - 2025.05 viewer (https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/7.2.0.16729091892.html).
- A dialog on the screen says "Display settings have been set to recommended levels because of a change to the rendering subsystem.". Graphics quality has been set to High and Transparent Water is checked.
- Log in and look at the system water.
Observed: The system water is opaque.
Expected: The system water should be transparent. The shaders should match the shader settings.
Workaround: Change the Preferences > Graphics > Quality & Speed slider down, then back up, and the shaders will recompile and match the settings.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Reproduce the issue by switching from viewer 7.1.10 to 7.2.0 with Mid+ graphics and observing opaque water after automatic display adjustment; compare this with recompiling shaders by moving the Quality & Speed slider. Done means shaders reflect the selected settings without requiring the workaround.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100