why can't SL 3.1 work on windows 8 formally known as windows developer preview. crashes after

[reese Shawbridge]

u hit log in it get to opening world and boom u get secondlife has stopped working and it can't even send an error report cause that crashes 2 any sugesstions dont fancy reverting back to windows 7 ya think LL will update the next realease so it all works.

[Rolig Loon]

The easy answer is that you are running a beta SL viewer on a beta OS.  You should expect problems.  You can try using a different viewer, like Firestorm or a previous LL viewer, but I suspect that if you want stability, you'll need to go back to Win 7.

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

Hello reese. As clearly reported here Windows OS for SL is:

• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7

What is possible to happen in the future, is another history.

[Tristizia Demonista]

First, you might try another Viewer Built.

http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/davep_shining-fixes/rev/243874/index.html

Seems that in this Devbuilt the Startup crash issue has been fixed.

And second, Win8 is a Developer Preview, not even a Beta, so problems should be the norm rather than an exception  

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Have you tried running it in compatibility mode? (Edited to change URL. Again.)

[Nalates Urriah]

The 3.1 version of the viewer has OpenGL issues. The Shinning version recommended is the project viewer for fixing OpenGL issues. You can try it or the Snowstorm developement viewer. Both have OpenGL fixes. See Alternate Viewers and scroll down to get the development viewer.

There are likely to be differences between the Shinning Project and the Developement viewer. Shinning is probably not going to have all the fixes in the Dev Viewer, but the Dev Viewer is unlikely to have all the OpenGL fixes in Shinning. Both are less tested than the SL Beta viewer and likely to have surprising problems. BUT, from your perspective they will at least work.

http://blog.nalates.net/2011/08/07/nvidia-driver-gtx-460-problems/

[Cincia Singh]

I read someplace in the forums, I don't recall where, someone had a similar issue with their Windows 8 beta machine and SL and the problem was the video card manufacturer's drivers didn't work properly with Windows 8. The solution was that Microsoft made available their own generic video card drivers that once installed allowed SL to run on a Windows 8 machine. Good luck and keep an eye on performance and temps.