Viewer not opening using Nvidia card

[Matathia]

Hello,

Recently I've been having a problem with the Second Life Viewer (and several third party viewers) not running on my Nvidia chip, instead running with the integrated GPU. I have made sure that the default graphics processor is set to my Nvida GPU, and I have tried doing a clean reinstall of the client. I have a Toshiba Satellite p750 with a Nvidia Geforce 540M, and run Windows 7 Home Deluxe.

Thank you in advance,

Matathia.

[Nalates Urriah]

When you ask a tech question include information about your computer and viewer. If the viewer will at least show the login screen, get the info from the viewer's Help-About... and paste that into your post with your question. Help->About... provides all the version numbers we need.  To add your info to an existing question use OPTIONS->EDIT. It’s in the upper right of your post.

Without that information all we can do is guess. That means you have to try all our bad guesses and eliminate them one by one. This is easier for all of us, if you give us good information to start with.

While you gave us some of your computer info, you did not give us the versions.

Laptops tend to go into power save and shut off the nVidia graphics chip. There is a setting in the nVidia control panel that will allow you to make a profile for Second Life. Make one and set it to use performance settings over power conserving.

This is especially a problem when running off battery.

 

[Matathia]

I apologize. I am using the newest version of the SL client (3.6.2.279258). I have already set my default graphics processor to my Geforce 540M AND made a profile for the client. I am not using the battery either.

[Matathia]

Ok, I have fixed the issue. I had to install the beta driver, 326.41, that's only available here http://www.geforce.com/drivers. Hopefully this driver release is stable enough. 

[TishaRogue]

I had a little issue with my NVIDIA this week. When i tried to open the viewer it would fail saying the drivers weren't installed but when i did the updates etc the instillation was failing (of the graphics drive). Once i finally got the thing installed properly it opened with no problem.