Ultra Graphics Settings and Shadows

[Caleb Molko]

Hi all,

 

Just wondered if anyone can suggest some advice.

I have just got a new laptop, spec below, and I am using Singularity. Whenever I choose Ultra graphics or enable shadows, my view has a fit an freezes until I drop the graphics down or turn off shadows. 

 

Can anyone advise why this could be happening and perhaps some fixes as I can't see why my system canno handle it. Especially as my desktop only has an i3 intel chip and a nVidia GTX 460 graphics card.

 

Thanks in advance!

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU
Intel Core i5 @ 2.50GHz 114 °F
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology

RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard

Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

Hard Drives
758GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG MZMPC064HBDR-000 (SSD)
Seagate ST750LM022 HN-M750MBB (SATA) 114 °F

 

[Nyll Bergbahn]

If your laptop has Nvidia Optimus, perhaps it's just using the HD 4000 integrated graphics when in Second Life and not the discrete graphics card. This was certainly an issue last year but I haven't seen any threads about this for a while. Check it out anyway. Remember that Optimus will not change to discrete card while on battery power.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/how-to-fix-nvidia-s-optimus-to-recognize-second-life/qaq-p/980637

http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/PHOE-3059

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-26533?

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/I-have-Gforce-gt-550m-gaphics-card-in-which-sl-sends-me-a/qaq-p/1096501/comment-id/13445

 

[Caleb Molko]

Many thanks Nyll, that was exactly it and instructions on the first link you gave me worked!

[Nyll Bergbahn]

That's great Caleb. Glad it worked for you.

[Katarina Malthus]

Thanks in advance!

Operating System

MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU

Intel Core i5 @ 2.50GHz 114 °F

Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology

RAM

8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)

Motherboard

 

Graphics

Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Intel® HD Graphics 4000

Hard Drives

758GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG MZMPC064HBDR-000 (SSD)

Seagate ST750LM022 HN-M750MBB (SATA) 114 °F

 

 

 

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Late to the party, but what has those specs? I don't know what the problem is, but those ram timings are ugly, bottlenecking vs the cpu.