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cross-posted from my Second Life blog
I recently upgraded my graphics from the on-motherboard NVIDIA GeForce 6150LE to a dedicated ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, to amusing effect.
Whilst there is no doubt that things have sped up quite considerably on my display and I get less of the ‘out of virtual memory’ messages from Windows XP, Second Life has been displaying weirdly!
Here’s a snip of a screenshot — note: “I ain’t got no body!” as David Lee Roth once sang. Nor does anybody else, but they at least have hair and sometimes their boots!
And my SL client has grown two new features, too — I am confused!
But equally confusing, because I don’t know if it is a graphics card issue or a SL client issue, is that I now have a second window open up showing me the processes going on behind the scenes…
I’ve just upgraded my graphics driver to the latest version but that hasn’t improved things!
You can see that I am wearing clothes, but no clothes (or body) can be seen. Any clues, anyone?
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Summer 01.23.08 at 12:01 pm
I don’t understand computers all that well, but I just bought a new one and was hoping I could play Second life.
It is a Dell XPS (bought new Jan 08)
Windows Vista Home premium
ATI Radeon HD 2400 video card.
3.25 GRAM
When I log onto second life I move around for 1-2 minutes and then the screen goes entirely black, I have to press the power button to restart the computer. (Ctrl-alt-delete) doesn’t work.
Since you play second life - could you tell me if my computer is even good enough to play or should I just delete the game off my computer?
Thank you for any comments or advice you may have for me.
Chaos Mandelbrot 02.10.08 at 12:45 pm
The client server menu items have nothing to do with the graphics card. They are “optional” menus that can be toggled with Ctrl-alt D. I suspect the process screen is a SL debug tool that was accidentally turned on. (there are lots of hot keys that do weird things in SL)