Preferences: Advanced¶

Me → Preferences → Advanced has the caches, interface size, hover tips and a few other options. The tab scrolls.

Caches¶

Slipstream keeps downloaded textures, sounds, meshes and so on on your disk, so places you've been load faster next time.

Option	What it does
Cache size	Disk space for the main cache, from 896 MB to 262144 MB (256 GB). The default is 16384 MB (16 GB). Bigger means fewer re-downloads when you go back somewhere.
Clear Cache	Empties all the caches (on the next restart), including the sound and GPU-ready texture caches. Try this if textures or objects keep looking wrong.
Cache location	The folder the cache is kept in. Browse picks another folder (for example on a bigger or faster drive); Default Location goes back to the standard one.
Sound cache location, Sound cache size, Keep decoded sounds between sessions	See Sound cache.
GPU-ready texture cache, Texture cache size, Texture copies in RAM	See Video memory.

Option	What it does
UI size	Makes the whole interface bigger or smaller.
HUD Scale	Makes HUDs bigger or smaller.
Show hover tips on objects, avatars and land	In-world hover tips on or off. Show tips on all objects, not just interactive ones and Show tips on land add more. See Hover tips.
Tooltip delay	How long the mouse rests before a tooltip appears.
Show script errors in	Where script error messages appear: Nearby chat or a Separate window. Untick to hide them.

Option	What it does
Allow Multiple Viewers	Lets you run several copies of Slipstream at once, for example for a second account. On by default. Each extra copy writes its own log (`Slipstream-2.log` and up).
Show Grid Selection at login	Shows a grid choice on the login screen, for logging in to other grids such as the Beta grid.
Show Advanced Menu	Adds the Advanced menu to the menu bar.
Show Develop Menu	Adds the Develop menu, with tools for testing and troubleshooting. Most people never need it.
Remembered Usernames	Manage the usernames remembered on the login screen.
Default Creation Permissions	The permissions new objects, uploads and scripts get.
Import from Another Viewer…	Bring settings and chat history over from another viewer. See Importing from another viewer.
Accurate rigged mesh picking	How clicks and hover tips work on worn mesh (bodies, clothing) and animesh. See below.

This decides whether clicking someone's mesh body, clothes or an animesh hits exactly what you see.

Option	What it does
Off	Worn mesh and animesh can't be clicked; avatars are picked by a rough invisible shape.
With ray tracing (default)	Exact clicking, free when you use any ray-traced setting. Without ray tracing, it still works for clickable worn items (touch-scripted attachments) and animesh.
Always (slower without RT)	Exact clicking on every worn mesh, always. Without ray tracing this can cost a few milliseconds per frame in crowds on slower graphics cards.