secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Make hardware test more robust
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@akleshchev is already working on this.
Since Aug 21, 2026.
enhancement
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
Ocationally hardware probe is causing issues. Like freezes and crashes. It prevents users from getting into viewer unless they disable hardware probes.
Potential solution:
Move hardware probe either into a thread or a process (whatever fits best), if probe-process stops responding or crashes, force lowest settings, kill the process, potentially disable features that were known to cause issues in the past (ex: occlusion on some amd gpus)
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