SamanthaPrater Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 http://gyazo.com/f0e5af153ae211afa7c88e57cf9e9cc2 Linden labs chat room monitor, unfortunitlly is useless to me.she was very friendly and helpfull- how ever I don't think she seemed to understand the problem! I upgraded and upgraded my drivers.Specs : PLEASE HELP!!!http://gyazo.com/64987b13396508a216840f6c77dc200e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraCarena Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Posting your viewer info may get you help quicker. Start viewer click help > about....then copy and paste here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orca Flotta Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Toss that kräp, install Linux and be happy. :matte-motes-nerdy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohjiro Watanabe Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Go to search and type dxdiag. When dxdiag.exe shows up click on it and go to the display tab. Now paste that info here so that we can see what your card is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 The most important piece of information required us missing. The viewer message is about video drivers but we don't know what video device you have but given the rest of the spec of the PC I would say it's from about 6 years old. You may need to install a Windows 7 driver for your graphics card as it is quite possible that the vendor may have stopped support for it, or you may be lucky and they may have a current driver. I had to use a Windows 7 driver on an old Lenovo with Intel embedded graphics when trying to use that with Windows 8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaPrater Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 http://gyazo.com/9a4040e3a979ecd793f6a802c7f4d04a There ya go . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaPrater Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 http://gyazo.com/bd1f1e786862fabb7bc66bcc94e976c2 Video driver information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaPrater Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 I clicked the wrong button; heres the right one: http://gyazo.com/bd1f1e786862fabb7bc66bcc94e976c2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaPrater Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 Hon, the viewer wont run, I use firestorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 No, silly me but I was right about the age so the rest of my previous post now applies. (it's an old machine, results will vary but it seems that the latest ATI driver is here http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows%208%20-%2064 so try that one instead of the one you have, unless you're already using this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohjiro Watanabe Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Your computer/graphics are not a high enough specification to run a normal SL viewer. Your graphics is an integrated chip (part of the mother board). In most cases this will not have enough power to run the complex graphics in second life. So the message you are getting is just telling you that. One thing you can try is running Radegast Viewer which you can download here: http://radegast.org/wp/ This is mostly a text based connection but there is a tab called "3D Scene" with a low level graphics display if your rig is up to it. The requirement is much lower than the SL viewer or Firestorm and at least you won't get the unhelpful message. If your computer isn't up to running the 3D scene then you just won't see that tab. Your other option is to buy a new computer. If you want to do that decide on your budget and get lots of advice from different sources so that you get the best you can for your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalates Urriah Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 You can check the system requirements to run Second Life here: System Requirements | Second Life. You need to translate the Intel 945 spec the Lab gives to something meaningful for your case. The Intel pages related to the 945 chip link to HD2500 and HD4000 level graphics support. What this means is you are borderline. However, the Lab's graphics GPU table file is blocking you. Thus, some third party viewers with different GPU files will run on your hardware. Try Firestorm, Singularity, or Cool VL Viewer. Firestorm is supporting less and less older hardware. You can use the free program GPU-Z to verify the actual graphics chip in you computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaPrater Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 thats odd; Windows seven Ran SL perfectly with out complication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Not odd at all, it's a driver change, they've probably just dropped anything but fairly generic support within Windows 8.1, just like I said for my Intel 945 equipped laptop. Did you try what I suggested and use either the ATI driver or use a Windows 7 ATI driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohjiro Watanabe Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Is there another socket on the back of your computer that the monitor could be plugged into? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orca Flotta Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 SamanthaPrater wrote: thats odd; Windows seven Ran SL perfectly with out complication. So, why o why did you have to waste money and "update" to that new smartphone/tablet OS? Reinstall Win7 and go your marry ways. Or, even and much better, extend your middle digit in direction of Redmond/CA and waven 'em a friendly goodbye, and install Linux Mint 17 (with Non-free drivers) and never suffer anything bad ever again. As cool side effect you won't need to install any anti-virus or firewall software. And no voodoo speed-up maintenance programs neither. No need to clear you registry or de-fragment the HD. All those jobs that took so much time off my productivity ... all things of the past and nothing but bad memories now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraCarena Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Orca Flotta wrote: ...Or, even and much better, extend your middle digit in direction of Redmond/CA and waven 'em a friendly goodbye,.... :smileylol: Well in UK it`s more traditional to extend index finger and middle finger so I`ve done just that and now posting this from a shiny new mint cinnamon desktop. First time I`ve used linux and must say I`m impressed with the resource usage, 300mb ram usage compared to 1.65gig on win 7.1 just to display the desk top! /me runs off to dl firestorm linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orca Flotta Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 SaraCarena wrote: /me runs off to dl firestorm linux Cool, I'm sooo proud of you. Linux did rejuvenate countless museum pieces of hardware already and gave them a longer lifespan. And Mint, in my eye, is the best for new users, nicer than the famous Ubuntu. Once you're settled into the Linux world and found the best desktop environment you should upgrade to a more advanced distro tho. Manjaro is the best Linux on the market right now, is based on Arch and available in all desktop flavours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Horten Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Hehe, yes, Linux does not use 50% of the hardware ressources to permacheck if the running instance of the operating system is legally licensed... J. Happy Linux only user since 2007, currently on Manjaro since late 2012 without system reinstall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orca Flotta Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Hoohoo Jeanie! \o/ Yes, we all know how stable Manjaro is for you since 2012. I love it too but am much too easily bored if things are going too smooth, so I do some distro hopping from time to time. But right now I'm back on our fave distro, Manjaro/Mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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