Horrible FPS/ Graphics Card Problems?

[DaisukeUchihia]

A couple days ago when I tried to log onto Second Life I had a message pop up telling me I had changed graphic cards, or along the lines of that (Though I didn't.) I thought it was nothing seeing as I knew I hadn't changed my card nor had I tampered with anything on my laptop. When I logged on, I found that my FPS (frames per second) had dropped dramatically. I couldn't stay logged on for more than 5 minutes before my eyes started to hurt. I also noticed that my avatar wasn't loading (The white cloud) and that everything lacked detail, as if the textures had been replaced with a low rez version to their normal textures. I waited a few days before trying again, this time the message didn't show up but I'm still having the same problems in-world.

Any help/Advice? 

[Trinity Yazimoto]

go in the maker of your graphic card's website and catch from there an update for your graphic card.

you need to upgrade it, even if you havent changed it, the internet is in constant evolution and your comp need upgrades to be compatible to it.

[DaisukeUchihia]

Thanks, that worked I feel really stupid now

[Trinity Yazimoto]

you are welcome im glad you could fix

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Some laptops have dual GPUs-- an integral, low-spec, one for general use (thus saving the battery) and a higher spec one for more demanding applications like SL.

So as well as making sure your drivers are updated, I would check that, if your laptop does have two GPUs, it's set to use the correct one for SL.