What's a good Viewer to use with XP?

[Vandris]

 

My computer runs windows XP and since I never had any problems with it I never saw a reason to upgrade it. Firestorm just blocked their 4.7.1 so I guess I can no longer use firestorm. Does anyone know of a viewer that supports XP still?

[Iyoba Tarantal]

I was in your shoes until very recently. Exodus (which is two years out of date but nice and stable) will run with XP. You may or may not get your eye poked out by rigged mesh, but you'll be able to get in world.

[Kelli May]

Catznip might work. In the words of the developers:

"While the current Catznip release will install on any version of XP and 2000, doing so is no longer supported and is in our experience disproportionally crash prone."

So it's one you could try if you have to, but it doesn't exactly come with a hearty recommendation.

[Dresden]

Just FYI, Firestorm version 4.6.9 will still be available until their next update.

...Dres

[Vandris]

 

 

thanks for the recommendations, although it's a bit entertaining that Firestorm weeds out an operating system SL is perfectly built to run on... as old as it is.

[Nostoll]

Try Ctrlalt viewer,it works very good with xp

http://ctrlaltstudio.com/viewer

[Bobbie Faulds]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers That one should work for you just fine.

[Dresden]

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Vandris wrote:

 

 

thanks for the recommendations, although it's a bit entertaining that Firestorm weeds out an operating system SL is perfectly built to run on... as old as it is.

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Firestorm is simply keeping up with the LL viewer, as they long ago said they would.  You can't run an OS that's so old it's no longer supported and expect software being created for newer ones, that are, to work with it indefinitely.  Right now you've got alternatives, but eventually they'll become scarce... once more and more TPV devs decide supporting an unsupported OS simply isn't worth the trouble.

...Dres

[Anita61 Anatine]

In addition to that see Jessica Lyons post from 2013, explaining why old versions are blocked: http://www.firestormviewer.org/old-fs-version-blocks-to-begin/

 

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

Cool viewer runs XP too - Cool Viewer

[Shelby Silverspar]

Singularity works on xp.

[Bobbie Faulds]

Currently, Catznip and Singularity haven't been updated in a while and, per the LL wiki page for 3rd party viewers,  These viewers have not been updated recently enough to be considered fully compatible with current Second Life services. Depending on your usage, they may or may not meet your needs.

The link I posted earlier, http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers towards the bottom there is one called Second Life Obsolete Platforms Viewer. That's probably your bet bet.

Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, meaning no security updates, so you really need to upgrade your OS. 

[LvGamer33]

I'll TELL right NOW don't use windows XP..... No anti virus or updates will work on XP... You will be at risk for everything.. Windows XP is fine if you don't conect to the Net.