Muireann McMillan

Issue has been resolved by making the following changes in references > Graphics > Hardware: - Turned off Vertex Buffer Objects - Lowered texture memory slider from 256 MB to 192 MB (actual video RAM is 256 MB) All works fine now - I don't really want to go testing which of the changes worked.

The Internet connection is most certainly not at fault. Another laptop on the very same router and the very same wi fi has no crashes. Also, I get *crashes* not *disconnections*. I know what a disconnection looks like - everything goes black and white and "you have been logged out of second life". I got these when my Internet connection was interrupted or when the PC locked up for a few min. Never got any of these in the last few months. What I get now is crashes - the viewer window disappears and the crash logger starts. I doubt it could be linked to the connection at all, though I will try a test run with a LAN wire.

Thanks! Responding on several points: - I do use wi-fi, and can't realistically route a wire from the router (which is new) to the laptop. The other laptop, where the issue does not happen, was also on wi-fi. However there IS a known issue with wi-fi on this particular machine being slow (I tried to watch movies over Windows file sharing from a server on the very same WiFi router). As soon as I can, which may be a few days, I will do a test run on a LAN wire (that location is not private enough for normal SL use). - Speeds on speedtest.net are usually approx 3.5 MB/s down, 0.3 MB/s up. This speed can not be improved (without moving house). - I do know that the hardware is on the lower end, and am used to around 12-14 fps on lowest graphic settings, falling under 10 in busy places. But low fps is one thing, crashes are another. Frequent crashes do make the experience "significantly worse than usual" (usual meaning before SSA). - I do know Linux on a reasonable level, but I am really not looking forward to tweakng proprietary drivers on it. My stationary media PC runs Linux (Debian), and I now need to upgrade it - I chose an Intel CPU (with built-in GPU) mainly because all drivers for it are open source and built into the distro. But for SL, I have what I have. So Linux on this machine would be a last resort.

Hello, I have started getting regular crashes in busy places. This happens with both stock SL and Catznip, and started around the time Server Side Appearance was deployed (I did get some crashed before but much more rarely). Crashes seem to be hardware related, as another laptop with the same software runs fine. The affected PC is a 2006 laptop. It should NOT have overheating issues as it was taken apart for cleaning recently and also has a good fan system under it. It is a Dell Latitude D620 with the NVidia NVS 110M chipset. It runs Windows XP. I have to use the drivers provided by Dell, as the ones from NVidia (selected for this specific chipset) say that they can not find supported hardware, and fail to install. In the download notes it does say Dell notebooks are not supported. So I don't have the option of a driver update, unless perhaps I use Windows 7 or 8 instead. (Or Linux, but I think there is voice trouble and no video support under Linux?) I'd prefer to have things running in XP. Are there any changes that I can make to SL settings or Windows settings that could possibly tackle the crashes? Thanks!

Hello, I have started getting regular crashes in busy places. This happens with both stock SL and Catznip, and started around the time Server Side Appearance was deployed (I did get some crashed before but much more rarely). Crashes seem to be hardware related, as another laptop with the same software runs fine. The affected PC is a 2006 laptop. It should NOT have overheating issues as it was taken apart for cleaning recently and also has a good fan system under it. It is a Dell Latitude D620 with the NVidia NVS 110M chipset. It runs Windows XP. I have to use the drivers provided by Dell, as the ones from NVidia (selected for this specific chipset) say that they can not find supported hardware, and fail to install. In the download notes it does say Dell notebooks are not supported. So I don't have the option of a driver update, unless perhaps I use Windows 7 or 8 instead. (Or Linux, but I think there is voice trouble and no video support under Linux?) I'd prefer to have things running in XP. Are there any changes that I can make to SL settings or Windows settings that could possibly tackle the crashes? Thanks!

Thanks! But - how do I go into debug mode?

Hello, I am renting a parcel. I do have access to all settings. I am running out of prims and I am not sure what is hogging so many prims - by my own calculations I should still have some left. In "About land" I can only get a list of owners - not very useful, I own nearly everything on the parcel. But I probably have some hoggers I do not realize I have. Is there any way to view a list of objects on th eparcel and how many prims they use? Thanks!

Hello, I want to set a new profile picture. I am using SL stock viewer: Second Life 3.2.4 (246439) . I have the picture in my inventory. However, I found no way to get it from there into the profile. It will not allog dragging. And it only saves to my computer in a TGA format - which is NOT accepted for profile picture! I do not have the software to handle this format. What do I do to get my profile picture updated?

Thanks, this has worked!

Thanks, worked for me too!

Hello, I use the stock viewer, on autoupdate. Until yesterday, I could receive IMs sent while offline when getting online. I had a logon problem yesterday. To resolve it, I reinstalled the browser (got newest from SL.com) and removed the avatar's sirectory under Application Data/Second Life. The problem was resolved but... now I can no longer receive offline IMs:( I still get them in email. Can I fix this somehow?