Everything is flashing weird colors and nothing loads

[Chocominty]

Yeah, this is a total pain in the ass.

 

I'm just using the basic viewer, and the very first time I start it up and try to get around, ALL of the hud pieces (the inventory, search, avatar, destinations, etc) keep flashing red, green, yellow, and/or red-green gradient. On top of that, I can't seem to actually USE anything. I'm using a brand new laptop here. I don't know what's going on.

 

Also, nothing loads correctly, and just WALKING is a nightmare. 

 

Anybody have any clue what to do about this?

[Chocominty]

Yeah, this is a total pain in the ass.

 

I'm just using the basic viewer, and the very first time I start it up and try to get around, ALL of the hud pieces (the inventory, search, avatar, destinations, etc) keep flashing red, green, yellow, and/or red-green gradient. On top of that, I can't seem to actually USE anything. I'm using a brand new laptop here. I don't know what's going on.

 

Also, nothing loads correctly, and just WALKING is a nightmare. 

 

Anybody have any clue what to do about this?

[Monti Messmer]

Hi, using a laptop i guess you use a wireless connection ? Try a wired ...

With technical questions please provide more details.

Open the viewer About-Info, or was it About-Help, and copy the upper part of information about your PC, Connection, Viewer in your post here. Without that all we can do is wild guessing.

You can edit your post, do not open a new one.

Monti

[Paul Hexem]

A brand new toaster is still a toaster, and makes a terrible oven. Sounds like the laptop is junk.

[Perrie Juran]

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Monti Messmer wrote:

Hi, using a laptop i guess you use a wireless connection ? Try a wired ...

With technical questions please provide more details.

Open the viewer About-Info, or was it About-Help, and copy the upper part of information about your PC, Connection, Viewer in your post here. Without that all we can do is wild guessing.

You can edit your post, do not open a new one.

Monti

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It's HELP/ABOUT  

And you don't have to be logged in to get the info.

But DO copy/paste ALL the info there.

[Chocominty]

I had a wireless connection before and this never happened.

[Chocominty]

Well, this is a laptop, which I'm using as a laptop.

 

Your analogy is 100% irrelevant, since I'm not doing anything that this device wasn't meant to do.

[Marigold Devin]

Welcome to Second Life Forums, Chocominty

Have a look at the type of graphics card that is installed in your computer, and pay a visit to the website for same to get the most up-to-date drivers for it. 

[Cincia Singh]

Laptops come in many configurations from totally useless for SL to top of the line. Please post your specs and people will try to help. Without your computer specs there's little help available.

[Theresa Tennyson]

Sounds like you're running a laptop with Intel graphics and Windows 8. Try updating your graphics drivers (just because it's new doesn't mean your manufacturer updates drivers on the assembly line). If that doesn't work, go to "Preferences - Graphics - Advanced" and turn off "Basic Shaders."

The walking and loading issues are a connection problem which might or might not be helped by a wired connection.

 

 

[Orca Flotta]

Flashing weird colours is always a sure sign of a failing/underpowered graphics chip. Doesn't matter if your lappy is brandnew, some (most) machines are just not fit to run a highly discriminating virtual world like SL. Was your lappy sold as a gaming - or at least a multimedia - laptop? If not then sorry, you're not using the correct tool for the task.

In your second post you mentioned you never used it for anything out of the range of laptop use. Sorry to inform you about this: SL is out of range for most laptops. You really have to look in the upper echelons of each manufacturer to reach satisfying results with SL.

[Coventina Dalgleish]

Are you on wireless  

wireless processes packets differently than a cat 5 connection

 

does your lappy have an ATI graphics card  if so the last known good driver is the 12.0 series

 

ATI and SL seem to have a dislike for each other no idea why since it is a major manufacturer  just another LL oversite

 

I do run an ATI card on an old desktop system, because it is the best ever made for the AGP buss and after many hours of playing it became apparent that the old drivers work much better than the current ones even though I get the upgrade you driver message on log in

 

of course if you are using the onboard video on the lappy you most likely have an Intel interface that has always been lacking in performance in second lifeeee...

 

oh and the learn for the library in the speeeeel chack has no effect it is stupid......typical

[Johan64 Thor]

Firestorm 4.4.2 (34167) Jul 1 2013 23:33:25 (Firestorm-Release) with Havok support
Release Notes

You are at 177,324.0, 307,575.0, 21.8 in Jujube located at sim9120.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.42.56:13009)
Second Life Server 13.09.21.281328
Release Notes

CPU: AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M520 (2294.16 MHz)
Memory: 5885 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Build 9200)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1129
OpenGL Version: 3.3.11653 Compatibility Profile Context

RestrainedLove API: (disabled)
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.1
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Settings mode: Firestorm
Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
Font Used: Deja Vu (96)
Draw distance: 64
Bandwidth: 500
LOD factor: 1.5
Render quality: Low (1/7)
Built with MSVC version 1600
Packets Lost: 125/20,998 (0.6%)

Have been using this laptop with secondlife no problems for over 3 years suddenly I get constant flashing thru all viewers this started a week ago PLEASE HELP!!

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Did the problems start when you installed windows 8 or when you updated your graphics driver?

If not, your graphics card or power supply might be on its final legs.