I keep crashing. Can anyone look at my specs (listed) and see anything wrong?

[Gawain Galtier]

 

I play other game titles on high settings but for some reason SL is crashing.  I even cleared cache, reinstalled sl as suggested and it's still running a bit slow and crashing intermitently.  I really enjoy SL and would be most grateful of any advice / help.

Here's my computer settings:

Manufacturer:  Alienware

Model:  Alienware Aurora

Processor: Intel(R)Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz

Installed memory (RAM): 12.0GB

System type: 64-bit Operating System

Graphics Card(s): Dual ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (they are running crossfire) (latest drivers installed 8/17/11 version)

 

Any insight?  I hope I can run sl...:(

 

p.s. could my display resolution have impact?  I am running a 2048 x 1152 screen resolution.



 

[Diana88]

Hmmm i have the same porblem i log in and in about every 15-30 min i crash.

Also when i try to increase the graphic setting all the object pixels bacame huge and sharp... I dont have problems running outher 3d apps on high settings (World of warcraft for example)

Thouse are mine computer parametters :

Computer TypeACPI Multiprocessor PC

Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows XP Professional

OS Service PackService Pack 3

DirectX4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

CPU TypeDualCore Intel Pentium E5200, 2500 MHz (12.5 x 200)

Motherboard NameGigabyte GA-P31-ES3G  (3 PCI, 3 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)

System Memory3328 MB  (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)

Video AdapterNVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS  (512 MB)

The video drivers are up to date. 

my screan ress is set to 1024x768

 

[punchinello Philbin]

 I haven't figured it out yet either. similar problems.  I hope someone can help.

 

I found something that helped a little:

I went into my Graphics > Hardware Settings > and I turned Enable VBO to off and Filtering to off.  That helped a little bit.  I crashed less, but still crashed a few times.

 

Any computer gurus out there that can help us?

[Diana88]

Umm have you tried this http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Viewers/new-download-make-my-pc-crache/qaq-p/1116887

I ve tryed but didnt do me any good also ive tryed installing 5 different 3ed party viewrs same no change. But it might fix your.

[Linda Brynner]

Looking at your specs it seems over the top even for SL so it should be no problem, untill i read 'Crossfire'...

I don't want to spoil your fun, but Crossfire ( a pair of AMD graphics cards ) usually has always been a real pain with SL; it can't handle them well. Can you shut down one of the pair? It should be solved then.

Best of luck.

[Gawain Galtier]

Hi Linda,

I tried turning crossfire off and sl ran slower that it was without in on.  It didn't fix the problem unfortunately:(  Could it be something else?

 

Hi Diana, I would try that too, though it seems the other viewers are having some issues with mesh ::shucks::

 

Thanks both for the kind replies.  Could it be because of my os?  win 64 bit version?

[Tsukkei Cao]

Had a similiar issue with Crossfire 5850's along with slow performance ( video lag) Fix for me was to roll back to an older ATI driver. Cataylist 10-12  Version 8.801 works great for me.

 

Edit to add I run almost an identicial system with Win7 64 bit.

[Gawain Galtier]

Thanks Tsukkei for sharing that info.  I am trying your suggestions.

 

So far, I rolled back all the way back to 9/10 drivers and no luck. 

 

I also tried setting SL compatibility to Windows Vista, and XP no luck.

 

A related question.  On the statistics meter, what is a good bandwidtth number  to see on average?

I have a cable modem but it's speed does not match up with the numbers inside SL.