Saturday, 17. October 2009, 06:10:53
[Update: It has only been a day but my and LL's releases somehow overlapped with a mandatory upgrade for the official viewer to 1.23.5. The update is necessary to adapt to some changes for notecard/inventory handling on server side for the viewer and although it's a rather small change, it is important. So here comes a new CV R10a. If you use R9 or R10 you can simply download this new installer and run the setup over your current installation.]It has been a while since the last update for the 1.22 viewer but finally here it comes. Although almost everybody else seems to have jumped ship to the newer 1.23 viewer which was forced by LL's adult policy implementation today exactly a month ago (no better date for an update release
) and inability for older viewers to search and access adult rated content, that's certainly not the end of the road for the in my opinion better, faster, more stable and less buggy 1.22 release.
The new Cool Viewer 1.22.11.10 R10a implements 4 major changes that are:
- Fully adult compliance backported from 1.23
- Backport of the notecard handling behaviour from the 1.23.5 mandatory update to 1.22
- Restrained Life in version 1.22
- A new avatar radar based on Dale Glass' "historic" version dating back to 1.18, updated by the Greenlife guys as well as Henri Beauchamp.
- Further optimized code and speed with lessons learnt from the Netbook Viewer
A couple of smaller changes under the hood that you may notice or not, but basically it is the good old Cool Viewer with the legacy "old school" user interface you will find yourself easily at home. For details please have a look at the included release notes (please note that this release is different and incompatible to Henri's "Cool SL Viewer 1.22.11.0" which he abandoned in June 2009).
I may introduce a couple of further updates and fixes in the near future, with the main priority on a new Rainbow Viewer release that features the "official" user interface. Stay tuned
.
As the previous release, CV 1.22.11.0 R10a comes with a full standalone installer, similar to the official SL client, that installs the viewer independently into C:\Program Files\CoolViewer and uses it's own Application Data folders to avoid interference with an existing SL or 3rd party viewer installation.
WinXP: C:\Documents and Settings\<you>\Application Data\CoolViewer\
Vista/Win7: C:\Users\<you>\Appdata\Roaming\CoolViewer\
Grab the latest versions here:
Standard version with SSE optimizations that should run on virtually every system out in the wild:
http://coolviewer.googlecode.com/files/Cool_Viewer_1-22-11-0_R10a_Setup.exeMD5: de6bd258682d20e6cac04beee8783fdb
SHA-1: e84a1c6f9c7002d20f7bb80c1a8ae9f65a2a6334
If you have a recent machine (ATI HDxxxx and all Nvidia 8xxx+ cards) please use this OpenGL optimized SSE2 version for newer hardware that runs a measured 20...40% faster depending on your system, especially on new ATi cards. Just run this small installer *AFTER* installing the full R10 release to replace your CoolViewer.exe with the way faster one (if you experience instability/crashes on your machine simply install the full R10 version over it again):
http://coolviewer.googlecode.com/files/Cool_Viewer_1-22-11-0_R10a_SSE2_NewOpenGL_Setup_exe_only.exeMD5: dd4651bcb63d1cbc3a437e8de7a593e4
SHA-1: 9a160f4a50a8a5698b4179f3e01b25f3bf3eb524
Please start CV with the included Cool Viewer.lnk shortcut, but take note that you may have to adjust the properties to match where you installed the viewer.Important:Please note that the following libraries and components are not included in the package as they are not redistributable. The installer will try to automatically pull them out of an existing installation of a SecondLife, CoolViewer or RainbowViewer on your machine. Please follow the prompt on the screen. Should it not work please copy them from an official Linden Labs SL 1.22.11 viewer into your C:\Program Files\CoolViewer directory to get full functionality :
llkdu.dll Kakadu JPEG2000 library
SLVoice.exe Voice components
vivoxsdk.dll
alut.dll
ortp.dll
The viewer will still run without them but with lower performance (OpenJPEG) and missing voice features.
Sources (GPL):
http://coolviewer.googlecode.com/files/src_1.22.11.0_10a.tar.gzEnjoy!
Boy
Please check out the previous Rainbow Viewer posting for new features and of course the included RELEASE_NOTES.txt for details.
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