I cannot get any viewers to start Second Life as it crashes before the login screen. Help?

[Falken Wingtips]

I cannot get any viewers to bring up Second Life after trying SL2, Phoenix, Emergence, and Imprudence. They all crash before the login screen at "Initializing VFS." I've tried a clean uninstall and reinstall of the viewers, manual clearing of cache, and even updated all my drivers. It still won't bring SL up. Can someone help me? Thanks.

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

Hello Falken. It is a known problem. Usually it get fixed if you clear your cache manually:

XP) - C: \ Documents and Settings \ (USER NAME) - Application Data \ SecondLife and
C: \ Documents and Settings \ (USER NAME)\ Local Settings \ Application Data \ Second Life

(Vista) and (Win 7) - C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ AppData \ Roaming \ SecondLife and
C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ ApplData \ Local \ Secondlife

Log out and delete everything in those folders and restart first your computer and after the program. Usually the folder Appdata is a hidden folder. (Windows Tools \ Folder Options \ View & enable Show Hidden Files/Folders)

Have in your mind that if you clear your cache manually you will lost all your private conversations which are saved in your computer. To avoid it copy the folder with your username in the folder Secondlife in another position in your hard disk.

If you have more that 1 viewers installed in your computer, you must to do it for all following the same paths in your hard disk.

For example C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ ApplData \ Local \ PhoenixViewer

Good luck.

[Maeve Lorgsval]

I'm in exactly the same predicament. I've cleared everything manually and now am beyond frustrated with the whole situation.. especially as my cash is sitting in SL doing nothing. Any advice greatly appreciated.