I can't log in. Everytime i try, regardless of the destination, my viewer crashes and force closes.

[TobiasKilroy]

Second Life 3.7.25 (298971) Feb 13 2015 04:46:52 (Second Life Release)
Release Notes

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz (1862.12 MHz)
Memory: 1024 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Build 2600) compatibility mode. real ver: 6.0 (Build 2900)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: MOBILITY RADEON X300 x86/SSE2

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.162-050803a2-025823C-Dell
OpenGL Version: 2.0.5279 WinXP Release

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.8
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.31
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Built with MSVC version 1600

 

1.) Dell Inspiron 9300

2.) Windows XP SP3

3.) MOBILITY RADEON X300 x86/SSE2 (I didn't know that until this his answer)

4.) I have no clue, I'm not even sure what that is.

5.) I have Ghirardelli Squares and Lindor Truffles.

 

 

Please help. If we can't resolve this soon I'll have to simply delete my account.

 

A new machine is completely out of the question.

This is the exact machine I started on SL with less than 2 weeks ago. 

It runs windows jhust fine with 1gb of ram, and until recently it ran SL well enough for my needs.

 

 

And how the heck does one actually respond to the answers in this forum?

[Lindal Kidd]

Thanks for the chocolate!  

Unfortunately, your computer is extremely low powered and my guess is that it's not up to running SL.  You have far too little memory.  In fact, you should not even be able to run Windows at all with only 1024MB of RAM.  Your CPU is slow (although it is fast enough for SL).  Your graphics card is extremely low powered, especially for SL, and the brand (ATI) is not the best for SL either (Nvidia GeForce cards generally work better.)  Your operating system is so old it's not even supported by Microsoft any more.

It's really time for a new computer.

In the meantime, though, you might be able to run SL by using the SLGo subscription service offered by OnLive.  This offloads a lot of the required processing onto OnLive's remote servers.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Tobias,

Lindal's advise is spot on.

Your old laptop's embedded graphics solution was a problem for Second Life back in 2007, 8 years ago.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/1-14-0-Known-Issues-Drivers-VBO-ATI-X300-X600-notebooks-and/ba-p/568656/page/4

If you are new to SL this laptop is NOT the way to go. You will not have a quality experience on this machine.

Windows XP is no longer supported by Linden Lab nor is it supported by Microsoft either.

While SLGO may allow you to access SL many features are not supported yet so your learning curve may be affected. Further, this laptop doesn't meet SLGO's minimum PC requirements.

Scrape some $$ together to buy a newer [gently used] laptop and then you'll be able to at least have an entry-level experience with Second Life.