GraceKzer Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I joined Second Life this morning. When I logged in the avatars (including mine) appeared partially. The heads were OK but the bodies were partial, with streaks to the lower part of the screen. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Is there any way I can fix it? Grace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 What is your graphics card, which viewer are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceKzer Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Sassy Romano wrote: What is your graphics card, which viewer are you using? The viewer I am using is the one that was downloaded this morning when I joined Second Life- so standard Second Life viewer, I assume. The graphics card is whatever came with my computer, an HP Pavilion tower. I will try to find out, but I will not be buying and changing cards just for Second Life. Thanks, Grace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 From Help/About in your Viewer (you don't have to log in to do this) copy/paste all the information from there. That will give the technical information needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceKzer Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Second Life 3.7.19 (295700) Oct 20 2014 13:37:20 (Second Life Release) Release Notes You are at 91.7, 76.9, 9.6 in Learning Island 4 located at sim10255.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.177:13003) SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Learning%20Island%204/92/77/10 (global coordinates 260,700.0, 268,621.0, 9.6) Second Life Server 14.10.24.295913 Retrieving... CPU: AMD E1-2500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (1397.36 MHz) Memory: 3518 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit (Build 9600) Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8240 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1254 OpenGL Version: 4.2.12682 Compatibility Profile Context 13.301.1001.1001 libcurl Version: libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1h zlib/1.2.8 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.31 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Vivox 4.6.0009.20030 Built with MSVC version 1600 Packets Lost: 0/1,259 (0.0%) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I would try to update the graphics card driver. Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8240 http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 This is a sort of issue that should only happen if one is on an outdated viewer, or with some objects made with what is now no longer supported methods. Neither of which is not the case here. How about your graphics card's drivers? Do you update them regularly? I have read that if you zoom way out and then back in again this problem is supposed to self correct, but that never works for me and I just usually put those objects in an "old and broken" list... But those are the new default avatars, they shouldn't be giving you this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conifer Dada Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Here's how I was told to solve this and it worked for me: When logged in to Second Life, click where it says me at the far top left of your screen and a drop-down menu will appear. Click preferences on that menu and the preferences menu will appear in the middle of your screen. On the preferences menu, click graphics. On the graphics page, at the bottom, in the middle, is a box that says hardware skinning. If that box has a tick in it, click the box so the tick disappears and then click OK. Wait a few seconds and the avatars will appear properly. Alternatively, if your computer and internet are up to it, you could try enabling the more advanced graphics (leaving hardware skinning enabled in this case) - on that same graphics page - which adds shadows and better effects, but it might reduce performance a lot. That also gets rid of the long sticky lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceKzer Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Bree Giffen wrote: I would try to update the graphics card driver. Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8240 http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Bree, Thanks.. I download the driver from your link and it now works OK. Grace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceKzer Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 Conifer, Thanks. I would have triied your suggestion but I had already downloaded the graphics driver and gotten it working that way. Grace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanjena Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 It looks so beautiful and bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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