If it weren’t for this thread, I would have reinstalled my viewer five times by now still thinking the cloudy avi was on my end.
Thanks to all who have commented thus far. And to Nalates, and Zeta for taking me to the woodshed over my OS. The rebuke is received.
If you’re running an XP with 32bit---forget the links above. They only work with 64 bit. There are XP 32-bit viewers with CtrlAlt studio and Singularity, but you’re still a cloud with no control over which avatar you use or how it looks. Hardly any features work, but you can walk around in-world and chat with other avatars, take pictures. That’s about it.
Now, the good news for XP users. Your patience in holding on this long to XP is about to pay off.
You see, LL is still running a dual system. On one hand, there is SL. As Nalates pointed out, you can go to EBay and find a cheap i5 upgrade for $300 that will run fine in SL. But why would you do that when LL is herding the flock towards Sansar? That’s right…Sansar! With the coming age of VR headsets like Oculus Rift the future belongs to PC’s that have VR support. Don’t get me wrong…any VR equipped machine with i7 will run perfect on SL. But just as old API’s were dropped for the new ones, so SL will be dropped for Sansar. Or be absorbed into Sansar when the time is right. When will that time be? When maximum profits can be made from the user community.
Go for i7, 250 SSD, 1T HHD, W/graphics card GTX 1070 or better, and VR support/ win10. You are now five to ten years ahead of the ‘upgrade game,’ and missed the midterm upgrade cycle. There are on/sale(s) going all the time for these machines. It’s like catching a bus. If you miss one…another one is coming right around the corner.
Dell, Best Buy, Newegg all have deals on VR PC’s. So, upgrade to where it’s going—not where it is now.