Hi, I'm new to SL but I am only able to play for a few minutes and then SL freezes and crashes. I'm using windows XP with internet explorer. Please help. Browser used for last vist : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152) Hi Bee no, no message it just stops, freezes and I have to close SL Hi Bee followed your link and came up with this Second Life 2.7.1 (231775) Jun 2 2011 14:48:57 (Second Life Beta Viewer) Release Notes CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz (2194.5 MHz) Memory: 2046 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Build 2600) compatibility mode. real ver: 6.0 (Build 2900) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 6.14.0011.0119 OpenGL Version: 2.1.1 libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: ܯ9|?9 Hi luc, laptop, wireless wifi. I have had problems with my firewall. Could they be connected?