please help me i don't wanna lose my secondlife!!

[XTheXDoctorX]

ok, so here's the deal, i have a Toshiba satelite, and i've been running windows 7,  I was using phoenix, firestorm, and the original sl viewers (Not at the same time) and my secondlife ran perfectly. But then i upgraded to windows 8 and now my sl wont work... i've seen other posts about simaler issues and nothing has helped, i found another viewer recently exodus beta, and even it has the same issue, i get up to the part where it says "Initializing VFS...." and then it crashes and i get a crash logger.. please somone help me i dont wanna lose my secondlife.....

[Knowl Paine]

Did you read the previous thread in this Category?

 

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/DNS-problems-at-login-a-request-for-information/td-p/1862703

 

In my opinion,

Windows 8 is still very new. It is going to have problems until all the bugs are worked out, and all the World's servers are updated.

I will install windows 8, when they start bragging about windows 9, by that time, windows 8 should be working pretty good.

 

 

[XTheXDoctorX]

those arent the messages i recive, it says " gathering hardware information, app may appear frozen" then "encoding files" sometimes and then "sending to server, try 1..." and then it closes and nothing

[Jade Nova]

Sounds to me like you need to upgrade back to windows 7

I think Windows 8 seems much more suited for tablets rather than PCs.

[XTheXDoctorX]

i cant downgrade yet..

[Knowl Paine]

You could create a new thread here:

 

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Answers/qac-p/Answers

 

List all the data you have here, or, copy and paste the http link to this thread.

 

Check to see if the Drivers for your Computer's Graphic Card, are up to date.

 

A positive with Windows 8, is Microsoft Support. Windows 8 is moving forward, like it or not.

 

[Paul Hexem]

Drivers. It's all about the drivers. Go get them from the manufacturer, not from Microsoft's windows update.

It will probably solve the problem.

[Cincia Singh]

SL viewers work fine in Win8 once you install video drivers from the maker of your graphics/video card, i.e. NVidia or AMD.

[SandraWillow]

SL runs fine with Windows 8 if you have all your drivers updated.  

[solstyse]

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Cincia Singh wrote:

SL viewers work fine in Win8 once you install video drivers from the maker of your graphics/video card, i.e. NVidia or AMD.

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That's the most important point. The Microsoft drivers won't be full feature drivers for any hardware that doesn't come OEM on a Windows 8 machine. And you can't count on the name that's on the case of your machine to have the proper drivers either.

Everybody left it up to the video card manufacturers to not only produce, but also distribute the new drivers. Why the laptop manufacturers that use those video cards aren't mroe involved in making sure that something made and available for free, and makes their own machines work better to the consumer is beyond me.