Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 i found second life awhile and was wondering wether or not to try i finally did... i downloaded it and installed the 28mb file from the site and i go to start it and when i do all i get is a screen thats half black and half gray and when i move the mouse around and i see were there are text boxs and buttons but i dont see anything... plz help ( i have changed the compatiablity and all that fun stuff nothing ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 i've looked and people need my specs to help so here CPU: Intel® Core i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz (up to date ) video card is: Intel® HD Graphics family 1700MB memory ( up to date ) RAM: 4GB DX11 Windows 7 by no means is this laptop slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rival Destiny Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 see here: https://secondlife.com/my/support/system-requirements/ for second life system requirements. SL is not intended to be run on a lap top but having said that, if you have the graphics card etc., you can do so. One of the things occurring is as viewers are updated, the systems required to run it need to be better and better. I do think the problem though, is your onboard vid card. I don't believe it is powerful enough for the intense graphics. I'm sure you'll get more replies here, there are many in this forum that are very savy to systems that are able to run sl. Hope you find the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 intense graphics ? from the most recent screens i looks like it run off the half life engine or maybe the HL2 these graphics are no were near the games i have played on this laptop sorry to be very defensive but i dont see how a laptop that can run crysis 2 , BF3, MW3, tera online, and other VERy intense graphical games with ease and not run a less graphic program... starting to believe it's not on my end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rival Destiny Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Graphics-card-problem-intel-3k-complaints-by-second-life/qaq-p/1572445/comment-id/24054 If you look at the minimum requirements page, perhaps you can determine if this is the issue or not. Meanwhile, the link is a random search that I did for running sl using laptop with an intel graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 second life half black half gray screen Try updating you video driver if that's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 im uptodate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 ok well try the other answers to the same problem you are having, it may be that your graphics card is not able to render SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 reading the system requierments doesn't help since these requierments are lower in D3 adn i run that like silk also not to be an A-hole you can still run programs wether they do met the requierments or not but for a login in screen not to appear and jsut have black and gray boxs, says nothing of the "grahpicial intense" requirements when there is very little in the way of graphics on a login screen.. if i was to have problems graphics wise it would be in game not on a login screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Ok, sounds cool. How about you try a different viewer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 i tried the phenoix viewer with the same result dont know about the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I use Exodus, a list of other viewers can be found in the Third Party Viewer Directory. To get to it, follow the Download Second Life link found at the bottom of this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 i would love to announce that love ya the singularity vewier works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rival Destiny Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Ryoken2 wrote: i would love to announce that love ya the singularity vewier works Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VRprofessor Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 The last time I did a fresh install of the SL viewer--a week or so ago--it defaulted to "high" settings even though the computer I installed on had no chance of running on high. If you still want to try the SL viewer and can access the preferences menu on the log in screen set your graphics to "low" and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Ryoken2 wrote: i would love to announce that love ya the singularity vewier works Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 now i cant figure out for the life of me how to use what i just bought it makes 0 since LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Lol, if it's in a box, you have to open the box. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Opening-boxes/ta-p/700185 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoken2 Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 ok got all figured now THX soo much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charolotte Caxton Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Np, yw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aljad Maddaloni Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Am having the same issues with the login screen....had to do a re-install on the pc and it was working up to this.....just getting a half black half grey screen instead of the usual login screen...nothing else appearing Any help much appreciated....will be trying one of the third party viewers tho to see if that makes a difference. Processor: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU Graphics : ATI Mobility Radeon HD family RAM : 3070MB DirectX 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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