Second Life Viewer

[Esbee Linden]

Yesterday Apple released their newest operating system update, OS X Lion. At this time, we're still testing and working out some compatibility issues, so this is just a quick reminder that OS X Lion is not yet supported by the Second Life Viewer. 

[valerie Inshan Honored Helper]

Thanks for communicating on this! I guess i will wait a while before downloading Lion. Not too sure if it is of great interest unless you use a laptop & trackpad. Apparently, Apple has oriented the new OS towards iPad's touch sensitive functions. As for Second Life, this upgrade is useless at the moment.

[Chelsea Malibu Advisor]

When do we get SL for iPad? Or Honeycomb? or Transformers or any tablet?

[gwampa Lomu]

Good News!  I have tested SL Viewers on LION on both a MacBookPro and a MacAir

On the air, you have to DISABLE OpenGL (Preferences / Grapics / Hardware) and untick the use OpenGL

On the MacBookPro, life is good!  No need to disable OpenGL

(I tested this with the latest SL Viewer and the FireStorm Beta, and Kirstens S21)

Of course, Phoenix still works pretty good if you dont mind an bunch of errors @ startup about missing sky Files

[TaRoc Jua]

I am using a MacBook running Snow Leopard.  I've had no compatibility problems using Phoenix 1.5.2.1102 along with the standard SL Viewer.  I am going to hold off getting Lion until I am sure SL and Phoenix are running smoothly.  Have not tried Firestorm.

[Jo Exonar]

Given that the final release has been available to developers for several weeks, why did you wait until now to begin testing?

[Miles Beck Honored Resident]

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Jo Exonar wrote:

Given that the final release has been available to developers for several weeks, why did you wait until now to begin testing?

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I've wondered the same thing. Every essential application I use except SL's viewer was updated for Lion before its release on July 20.  

Could we have a timetable on when we can expect compatibility with Lion?

[TaRoc Jua]

I would not count on it.

[Kawyn Galaxy]

why would there be aproblem? Its the same system different( additional features) apps The code is the same

[Kawyn Galaxy]

were these ati graphics or NVIDIA,,,,,,,there have been significant problems with nvidia freezing( Obviouslyyou disabled open GL) Firestorm  Has advises Viewer 2 and firestorm Users to wait,until this is fixed.....you frame rate is severely compromised

Firestorm support reply

To be honest, If you intent to use any V2 based viewer full time on SL, I would hold off on the Lion update until this is fixed.

Please see FIRE-2297 for all the details on this issue.

It appears to simply depend on what graphics card you you have You can MAKE it work sure

but frame rate is affected

Thanks KAwyn Galaxy