secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Second Life renders mostly-white screens under Parallels

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A pull request for this has already been merged.

  • #6053 by @mcgroarty — merged
bug stale
Dominant language
C++
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Environment

All Second Life viewers since PBR when running on a Windows guest under Parallels on macOS

Description

Second Life renders mostly-white scenes (the "before") without the fix in the linked PR.

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Reproduction steps

  • Install a Windows build of Second Life in a Parallels virtual machine on an Apple Silicon Mac

  • Launch Second Life on "Low" graphics settings (higher graphics levels still have other issues)

  • Observe "BEFORE" screenshot

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Reproduce the mostly-white rendering in a Windows guest under Parallels on an Apple Silicon Mac using Low graphics settings, then inspect the linked PR #6053 for the fix context. Done means Second Life no longer renders mostly-white scenes in that environment.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
computer-graphics, game-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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