Why do I have a horizontal orange stripe running across my SL screen today,?

[Corin Slade]

When I log into SL today on my SL viewer or my Firestorm viewer, I find a horizontal orange/red stripe runnning across the middle of my screen. Why is that? How can I remove it? Thanks

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Corin,

Weird visual artifacts like that are sometimes the result of outdated graphics drivers. Make sure yours are current. This knowledge base page has links to the update sites...

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Graphics-cards/ta-p/700073#Section_.1.5

The rest of the page is a bit outdated.

If that doesn't fix things, you might try a clean-install of the viewer. Here are instructions for doing that...

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-Second-Life/ta-p/1375231

Pay special attention to the note on the page if you don't want to lose chat-logs.

Good luck!