a viewer for a old computer from 2007

[xortor]

what is a viewer for a computer from 2007 that does not say you have a outdated graphics card?

[Chic Aeon]

None as far as I know. I have one that old and it hasn't been able to run SL with any viewer in quite a few years. 

 

Edited September 28, 2017 by Chic Aeon

[cykarushb]

Using the legacy viewer i was able to get a fairly playable experience on Windows XP using a Core2Duo E6700 and a Nvidia GT 710 with 3gb of DDR2

You can try that, but due note, that system is pretty much the absolute bare minimum for secondlife. I mean it was 20fps in even places like social island, many places where there were lots of people were entirely unplayable.

And it looked a little something like this because Bento parts dont work well on the legacy viewer

 

You can find the "Obsolete Platforms Viewer" down low on this page:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers

[Lillith Hapmouche]

Double post, with the other topic being a bit more "insightful" in so far as that it reveals that the machine in question is a laptop, which was updated to Win10 ... 

 

[cykarushb]

In that case, without knowing specifically what the machine is, im gonna say its not going to be playable.

The pinnacle of the average laptop in 2007 being a Thinkpad T61, you have either Intel Graphics Media accelerator x3100 (most common for ANY laptop of the mobile core2duo era) which wont run Secondlife even with the legacy viewer (ive tried). A quadro NVS 140m or other similar era quadro, which is only better than the integrated stuff in the sense that it has faster and higher amounts of video memory. Which may actually be "playable", but it will not be enjoyable. The game will load, it will have the bare minimum specs on paper (you dont "need" the minimum listed Geforce 6600), but it will be incredibly low framerate on bare minimum settings.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T61

Even a decent "gaming laptop" from 2007 youre looking at more mobile core2duos and things like a Quadro FX 1600M, which is bsically an 8700M GT with 256mb of video memory which isnt much better. And really that 8700M GT was about the pinnacle of 2007 laptops. People say (and its true) that CPU is more important for SL, where ya know, a core2duo will be OK, not great, but ok. But this is the point where the old GPU is actually going to be holding you back.

If you have anything less than a high end gaming laptop from 2007, sorry, not even the legacy viewer will make the game enjoyable.

[Zsigmond Alcott]

Buy a new PC and come join us in 2017

[WolfBaginski Bearsfoot]

While it's not on the official TPV list, if you have low-end hardware, Cool VL Viewer is worth a try, but it's a version of the old v1 UI, and I am not sure it would run on graphics hardware that old. Any viewer, the sticking point is the OpenGL drivers. Also, the current downloads are 64-bit only, though you can build a 32-bit version from the sources.