Windows 7 and SL

[Bac Compton]

Good Afternoon all,

I was wondering if any one can help me, I have just upgraded to windows 7 (that was a joy NOT) than installed SL and started to run it but now I have a message saying my vidoe cards are not supported. So I have updatd them still not working, also unstalled and than installed nothing!

Now at a real lost, my card is Radeon X1650 Series no hardware changes just software any one have any ideas?

Many thanks

Bac

[BlckCobra Shikami]

Hello Bac,

you may want to have a look at the following Thread (https://blogs.secondlife.com/message/36052). Also make sure you are using the latest windows 7 graphic drivers from your graphic card manufacturer or ATI (http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx) directly.

Hope this helps, Cobra

[Garrick Diesel]

Hi Bac,

 

As I'm sure you are aware, ATI have not issued supported windows7 drivers for the X series graphics cards. However, the native windows 7 driver is sufficient to run SL on these cards without any problems.  If the "unsupported hardware" message bothers you, you can disable the hardware check on the client startup.

 

Find the shortcut on your desktop and right-click it. Select Properties and add the following to the end of the text in the "target" field:

--noprobe

this must fall outside the closing quotation mark (if any) e.g.  "c:\program files\secondlife\secondlife.exe" --noprobe

 

I hope this helps you! You may also want to ensure you have the latest VISTA drivers for the card installed if this still fails.

 

Regards,

Garrick

[Bac Compton]

Thank u both of you for the posts its now fixed and I can return to Gor

 

Many thanks

 

Bac