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Your integrated GPU may not be enough to run Secondlife through that viewer, or they may not have support for that generation of integrated graphics anymore. Updating your IGP drivers wont do much, it wont make it perform any better. If you have a desktop i recommend a dedicated GPU anyway since performance will be much better. As Chic said if the regular viewer works and Firestorm doesnt its more likely a problem with firestorm than your computer. Ask them about the issue and see what they offer as a fix.

So an update on this, around an hour later. I went to install Lubuntu 17.04, the new release. Sounded just fine. Installer couldnt connect to my wifi network, it was using a driver for a device i did not have and it did not function fully. That already was a bad sign. So i said screw it, ill fix it later, im installing alongside windows xp anyway. Partition out a 20gb space for it and let it go to work. I didnt want to lose some windows only applications like AutoCAD, Sketchup, a few other bits of professional software i have. Midway through partitioning it crashes. Just freezes up, spits out some fancy xorg errors and my computer shuts down. woop Windows starts back up, disk checking, let it run, disk partitions are borked. Windows XP is broken beyond repair, i whipped my usb stick out a window. Posting this from my phone. Ive installed linux on machines dozens of times and never had a detrimental error on install, definitely not while partitioning. Fantastic. As it turns out most of the 3rd party viewers dont support bento anyway, and the Linux SL viewer is buggy as can be. Im just gonna drop my Gt 710 in another somewhat newer athlon machine i have lying around that already has windows 7 on it (i think).

I know the hardware is old but it still does SL just fine for me, most of my issues seem to be related to the legacy viewer. Im thinking either 7 or possibly going to Linux, but i had issues before with the client not working even with the 32 bit package patches on linux so im not sure how well that would go. I wouldnt do windows 10 since i dislike most of its telemetry things and i dont think it would perform that well on something of this caliber. Ive only got 3gb of ram and idle on windows 10 can hit 1-1.5gb on its own just for the OS. Which is a far cry from windows xp using about 150mb, and Linux using around 70mb (if i use something like WindowMaker/gnustep or LXDE)

If you want to run SL maxed out in 1080p you wont need much. A modern build with a Pentium G4560 + 1050ti and 8gb of ddr4 will be enough to max out SL in 1080p at over 60fps in most if not all locations. And that would be ~500-600$ depending on what other components you chose, mobo/psu/storage/case/etc

Should be maybe OK for the screen resolution (~720p). But its really not a powerful APU at all. Its a decent CPU, competing with 4th gen mobile i7's, but the integrated graphics are nothing special. The 553mhz mac R7 integrated GPU is on par with a GT 720m. Which is a very weak GPU. I got some comparisons with my system to give you a bit of performance expectation. Im playing in 1366x768 (same as that laptop) on a Core2duo E6700, 3gb of DDR2 and a 1gb Gt 710. Im pretty limited graphically and im usually on Medium/low general settings with some of the fancier stuff like atmospheric shaders and bump mapping turned off. Though with those settings i still get over 60fps in most light places. Anything larger however can crash the game. CPU Comparison GPU Comparison Youre weaker GPU wise than i am on my very budget machine. Though you do have a much more impressive CPU score. And thats going to be a problem since my Gt 710 is just barely enough to run this game at an acceptable level in 720p. That weaker GPU is going to cause severe problems. Especially since it likely wont be running at the max 533mhz, knowing AMD its going to thermal throttle when it gets too hot and the clock speed will drop. You'd also be working on shared video memory and system memory instead of dedicated video memory, which can really impact the performance of the graphics because system memory is extremely slow in comparison. So in my opinion, no. Do not buy this laptop if you intend to play SL. You'd be spending 400$ on something that will perform slightly worse than my 60$ crap-box of a computer. Save up a bit more money and get something more capable. Check out some more modern machines, https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC884YN9642

Yeah its the legacy viewer. Most stuff works just fine, its just occasionally some peoples hands and heads. Ill ask people if theyre using Bento components. Might be time to upgrade the OS then, only reason im still using XP is because this thing came with XP and i dont have a 7 disc + key around. The hardware though is ok-ish for SL, its not that bad in 720p

Im not trying to skirt any rules, im mainly talking of situations where id be changing clothing in G rated places, my avatar is not nude, no bits, but there may be a transition period where i am not wearing pants or a shirt. And im most frequently in places like Social Island or some of the newbie spaces. I was just wondering if there was a specific list of what is and isnt nudity since there doesnt seem to be much of that searchable on the Wiki.

So ive noticed with some particular mesh parts on avatars, specifically hands and heads, i sometimes get bugged out meshes. pic related Any idea what causes these? Changing settings dont seem to do much. Turning off hardware skinning stops that but results in the next pic. Ive tried everything from bare minimum to ultra presets, tweaking individual settings, lots of stuff. I have a feeling its my viewer, but others on newer viewers have also said they sometimes have similar problems, again mainly with hands and heads. This isnt a powerful machine but it runs everything SL just fine around my settings and i can do more if i dont mind dropping to 40fps on average. Specs below

Just a quick question, what qualifies as nudity in SL? Would an avatar with no visible bits be considered nude? Example, a stock skin with no genitals? What about going around bottomless, again with no visible genitals in any form? Would that cause any problems in a G rated space?