FYI Running Firestorm from a USB
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FYI Running Firestorm from a USB
Time was that many viewers could be run without an install and hence from a USB stick. While it may be frowned on it's actually quite important to me as it's the only way I can presently make Firestorm available to students, i.e. copied from the install on my PC to a shared drive, without having to involve support staff in updates, etc. FWIW this currently works with 64-bit Windows Firestorm but not 32-bit for some reason. Don't know about other viewers.
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Re: FYI Running Firestorm from a USB
I should add that we had a few viewer crashes after the first hour of a 2 hour session which I haven't seen previously (most sessions are 1 hour and last year we used Kokua). I suspect it was over-heating as the regions viewed on other PCs were fine and the ambient temperature unhelpfully warm. Obviously this is a local issue and the short-term solution is to aim for a 1 hour time limit.
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Re: FYI Running Firestorm from a USB
I have been running viewers from a flash drive for a few years routinely. I use 64 bit Firestorm nearly all the time. I occasionally use the official SL viewer for SL. I have no problems with either. In the past, I have run other viewers from a flash drive, but have not tried recently, simply because I had no reason to use them.
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