Cool VL Viewer forum

Hi,
I'm trying to set Prefs -> Graphics -> GPU/GL features -> Texture memory (MB) to 2048, which is half of the amount of VRAM present.
After saving the prefs the amount always reverts to 32 MB however. How do I make this stick please?
I'm using the Linux version of Cool VL Viewer v1.32.2.25.

Please, post the log file.

Sure. I have included the last log now.

And here you go with the explanation, right from the log:

Obviously, you are using a custom skin which did not get updated for the new graphics settings that went into the preferences panel...

Just remove your custom skin definition, or update it.

I always leave it at 'default', but I switched to the dark skin now, with no change.
I installed the viewer that I downloaded, after deleting the directory with my own last compilation.
Really couldn't detect leftovers. I will try another instance of Linux Mint 21.3 where I didn't use any viewers yet.

And that works somehow. Happily on a system that did not have a .secondlife dir yet. I guess I better separate the 2 viewers again, as I never touched a skin.
The only bad thing that happened months ago was that I damaged an .XML file, I remember. Wouldn't know how to create a custom skin without looking it up.

Thanks for pointing out where the oddity happens.

If you "never touch a skin", just make sure there is no old remnant from whatever skin override, by removing anything lingering in: ~/.secondlife/skins/

Moving the settings to ~/.coolvl made all the difference in the world. I get nervous anyway from that ~/.secondlife directory that was shared by the LL viewer, the CoolVL Viewer and Singularity at the same time.
(I understand how it can come handy to keep all chats in one place but I only look up the last 3 sentences of the last chat with someone now and then, and don't keep chatlogs otherwise.)
Now that I start a CoolVL viewer session with 'export SECONDLIFE_USER_DIR="~/.coolvl" ' everything stays fine.

The skins/ custom overrides was actually the only sub-directory (beside IM and chat logs, of course) shared by the Cool VL Viewer with other viewers for its files. All the rest (settings, cache files, login hashes, etc) is kept in separate directories or in files with an entirely different name, to avoid collisions...

In next release, I changed the custom skin overrides directory name for "cvlv-skins", and the viewer will inform you (once only) via a notification if it finds a "skins" override directory but no "cvlv-skins" directory along it, so that you know you need to either rename or copy the old directory.

This way, you can keep sharing safely ~/.secondlife with other viewers (which is desirable to avoid loosing the continuity in IM and chat logs, if you use several viewers with the same account).