Why is everything black, all my prims like trees,houses,waterfalls all black what do I do?

[maplesky Nightfire]

Since the first time I tried to log in to the newest viewer two ...everything has been BLACK. All trees, houses, waterfalls, any kind of prim on my land and on me is black. I've done everything I know how to do to solve this problem on my own is there a way to download the old viewer?? How long do I have to deal with this?

[Rolig Loon]

This is a bug in the current version of LL's V2 viewer.  See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-26325? .  You can solve it apparently by turning off basic shaders in Preferences >> Graphics.  Other than that temporary fix, you have only three choices:

1.  Uninstall the current version and re-install a previous version (available at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Release_Notes).  Be sure to turn off the auto download updates option in preferences to keep LL from forcing download of the later version again.

2. Install a third party viewer like Firestorm  >>> http://www.phoenixviewer.com/.

3.  Wait for the next version of LL's V2.  Apparently the bug is fixed in the beta 2.8, so there's hope that the final release will be OK.