saga continues: viewer crashes while initializing textures pt 2

[LibGwen]

Because I can't be sure anyone will see the reply to the reply to the reply to the resolution which worked once but doesn't now:   http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/viewer-crashes-while-initializing-textures-now/qaq-p/832619

 

Again the SL viewer crashed, again when I start up the viewer when it reaches "initializing textures" the hard drive grinds and grinds to no effect.  The viewer doesn't register in Task Manager, but the filename in the menu bar can be closed (it says it's not responding).  This time deleting the C: - Documents and Settings - (USER NAME) - AppData - SecondLife folder made no difference.

 

Jeez, I've been a member a week now and the viewer has frozen at least once every day.

 

So, the questions are:  What do I do now?  And would I have better luck with another viewer?

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

If you loose your internet connection often, its very possible to have the same problem for ever. Try Phoenix. You can download it here: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/downloads.php

I have never had the problem with initiliazing textures with Phoenix, only with viewer 2.

[Peewee Musytari]

HI LibGwen,

Can you please post your computers specs, including which graphics card you have.

[LibGwen]

PC, Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

[Nyll Bergbahn]

In XP, deleting the SecondLife folder in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\ should fix this issue. I would also suggest you delete the SecondLife prefetch file in C:\Windows\Prefetch as perhaps it is corrupted.

Edit: If this fails, completely uninstall Second Life including the aforementioned folder as perhaps the application did not install correctly and then reinstall.

If this fails too, uninstall and then download and install the latest graphics card driver for your Nvidia card from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[Dil Spitz]

Did you tried out an other viewer too?