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  1. If you are receiving an error when starting the Second Life viewer that says your graphics card is unsupported or your graphics drivers are out of date and you know that your card meets the system requirements, then this procedure will most often correct the problem. Usually this message appears when you have upgraded from a previous version of Windows, or when a Windows Update conflicts with an installed graphics driver. It can also mean that Windows Update has installed a graphics driver for you that does not have full support for SecondLife or that your graphics driver is not Windows certified. Download the latest graphics driver from the chipset manufacturer (ATI, Nvidia, or Intel) not the maker of your graphics card or computer. Save the file where you can easily find it, but do not install it yet. Run Windows Update and make sure your system is fully patched. (Optional) You may download Driver Sweeper or a similar utility to remove all traces of your old driver. Reboot your computer and enter Safe Mode by pressing F8 at the Windows logo screen. Uninstall your old video driver. You can either use Driver Sweeper or Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager (steps will vary: this applies to Windows XP) and then opening "Display Adapters" and right-click and choose "Uninstall." Reboot your computer. If Windows displays a message that it found new hardware, do not let it automatically install drivers. Instead, run the installation program that you downloaded in step 1. Reboot your computer You should now have a clean version of your video driver.
  2. Your viewer has a built-in browser, so you can always surf the net from within SL using it. To activate it, use Preferences >> Network & Cache >> Built-in Browser. If you are using a viewer that supports Media On A Prim (all of the V2 viewers and Firestorm do), then you can also create your own browser on the fly. Just rez a prim. While your Build Edit window is open (1) click the little button that says Select Face, (2) Click on any face of your rezzed cube, (3) open the "Texture" tab in your Build Edit window, and (4) Click on the + sign that is waaaay at the bottom of the window, where it says Media. That makes that selected face into a web browser. Enter the URL you want to view in the obvious field of the new window that opens and click OK. So long as you are in a place where you can rez objects, this method will always give you a fast, free way to create a web browser in SL.
  3. Go to Preferences → Sound & Media and check that you have the Sounds and UI sliders up high enough and that there is no mute symbol (red no entry sign) on the speaker icon next to those.
  4. "Show Look At" shows you where other people have focused their cameras. Some people use this as a way of finding out who may be looking at them (or other people). Note, however, that some viewers (Firestorm and Phoenix, for example) allow you to disable their own "Look At" from being seen, so you might not get information about where everyone is looking.
  5. If you want to buy gestures that someone else has made, you can find quite a variety in Marketplace and even more in world. If you want specific ones, you can maybe jump start your search by posting a question in the Wanted section of the Commerce Forum >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Wanted/bd-p/Wanted . If you want to try your luck at making your own gestures, take a look at the introductory overview at >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Gestures-emotes-and-animation/ta-p/700069
  6. If you have a balance in your dollar account, you should be able to buy L$ by going to your Dashboard at secondlife.com and clicking on Buy L$, which is one of the two menu choices under the Lindex heading on the left side of the page. If that's what you are trying and it's not working, I suggest calling the LL billing office and asking them for help. The billing team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Toll-Free (US/Canada) 800.294.1067 Long-Distance 703.286.6277 Local Toll-Free numbers * France: 0805.101.490 * Germany: 0800.664.5510 * Japan: 0066.33.132.830 * Portugal: 800.814.450 * Spain: 800.300.560 * UK: 0800.048.4646 * Support is in English Only
  7. "Best" and "cheapest" are on opposite ends of the stick. The "best" computer is going to be expensive. The important question is which one is best for you, and only you will know that. Here are some things to think about as you decide, though >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Choosing_a_computer . You might also take a look at >>> http://spressie.com/2011/10/10/second-life-computer-guide/
  8. Do you get a handshake error message? While you are logged in to SL, try starting up Internet Explorer instead of your normal browser. (I'm guessing that you are normally using Firefox or Chrome, or something other than IE.) Then see if your URL scripts display properly in your in-world browser. They ought to. You don't need to keep IE going after that, but your viewer does need to know how to find it, and that one-time connection ought to do the job.
  9. Before you try anything else, try simply rebooting your router. Unplug it from the power for a few minutes while you go out for coffee. When you plug it back in, the router will have had a chance to clear its RAM and then get a fresh grasp on an IP address. Often that's all it takes. If that doesn't work, the advice that Angel posted earler is the way to go. The only thing I might do differently is to change from what ever DSN settings your ISP assigns by default to the free public Google DNS servers instead of the ones in the Neil Robinson article. You'll find clear, easy instructions for changing those settings at http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html
  10. You should be able to run SL with that computer, although you will get only low to medium quality performance from it. That computer is not designed to handle the fairly heavy graphics demands of Second Life. If you are having trouble connecting at all, however, it's probably not the computer's fault. First of all, if you are using a wireless connection, switch to a direct cable connection if that is at all possible. That will guarantee a stronger, more reliable connection. Then, check to be sure that your access is not being limited by your ISP or (if you are on a campus or in a corporate environment) by your local IT department. College campuses often limit the amount of bandwidth you are allowed to use, for example, and may block gaming sites deliberately in order to be sure that they can meet the academic needs of the campus. If that's not the problem, check your own firewall and antivirus settings to be sure that they are not the problem. (See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Configure_your_software_firewall and http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=as_anti-virus_white_listing_steps )
  11. Thank you for providing such a careful description of your problem. I'm not confident that we can hit on a solution right away, but your post at least helps rule out whole class of possibilities. If a small window appears, saying that you have been logged out of SL, this isn't a crash. Rather, SL is disconnecting you, for one of a number of reasons, including: The region you are in is going down;During teleport, the SL servers may fail to hand you over to your destination and so log you out;Your network connection has gone down;Your network connection has become poor or unreliable and SL has lost contact with your avatar.If this is happening consistently, it's clearly not because a sim server is going off line. You didn't mention a teleport connection, so that's also unlikely (but check to be sure that your firewall isn't blocking outbound TCP port 12043, just in case). My guess is that it's something local, and my first suspicion is always that it's the router's fault. The fastest way to find out is to bypass the router by plugging your computer's Internet cable directly into the modem. If you don't disconnect, then it IS the router. Check all settings and connections carefully. The other thing that can cause a computer to disconnect consistently after only a minute or two is overheating. If that's the problem, then it's potentially serious. Heat can destroy components and be very expensive. Open your computer case and use a can of air to blow out any accumulated dust bunnies and cat hair. Be sure that you have adequate ventilation, even if that means installing an extra fan or two in the case. You can also go on line and look for free software that will monitor your computer's temperature and speed up the fans if it's getting too hot.
  12. Did you check the Transaction Historyon your Dashboard at secondlife.com? That's where the reliable balance is. Your in-world balance -- the one that shows in the upper right corner of your screen - can often be out of sync with your actual balance. Your Transaction History ought to show you every single payment you made and to whom it went. If there's an error there, then contact the merchant with a polite IM or notecard that contains the record of your payments. If you don't hear back from the merchant or if the matter isn't settled to your satisfaction, then file a support ticket with LL ( https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ ) and get their help.
  13. No. You can't access that information with a LSL script, and I suspect that it isn't even maintained in the system. I am no great fan of the web profiles myself, but they are a fact of life in SL now. If you don't want people to read your profile, my best advice is to make it as boring and uninformative as possible and then make all of your Privacy settings as restrictive as you can. And be honest. A very wise friend once told me, "Never commit anything to writing that you would be embarrassed to see on a billboard on the Interstate." I think that applies to Profiles.
  14. Sorry. I did misread your other post. The problem is so commonly the other end up that I saw this as yet another case of Marketplace fouling up a delivery. There have been other complaints like yours, but we're not seeing many here, so they are mercifully rare. I think your best course is to contact Live Chat and ask for their help. It might not hurt to send Brooke Linden an IM too.
  15. If you're trying to create a snowstorm, you'll need a snow generator -- actually several of them. Snow is a particle effect, created by a fairly simple script that you place in a transparent prim and then suspend in the air. You'll find many freebie snow generators in SL and in Marketplace. (Don't pay good L$ for them. The free ones are fine.) Unfortunately, snow generators (and all particle effects) do have limitations. 1. Particles are a client-side effect, which means that they are created by your own graphics card, not by SL's servers. Among other things, this means that you won't see the snow being generated until it is potentially in your own field of view. (This is like, "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it ....."). Snow will appear to stop and start as you approach different generators. 2. Covering a whole parcel, unless it's a tiny parcel, means using several snow generators. It's tricky to place them so that they overlap with no gaps and are high enough above eye level so that you're not aware of the generators themselves. 3. Most people have the Maximum Particles slider in Prefererences >> Graphics set to the default value (4096), which means that they won't see more than that number of particles at once. Most RL snowstorms have more thn 4096 snowflakes in them, so it's tough to create a real blizzard with particles alone. You can augment the effect by placing large phantom prims around the parcel, each textured with a wispy alph snowflake pattern. That can look really fake, though, so don't overdo it. If you have access to region-level controls, don't forget to retexture the ground with a snow texture, and consider changing the preset Windlight effects to suggest a cloudy atmospheric environment.
  16. The splayed finger thing is a bug that has been in SL for many years. Once you start paying attention, you'll see that it happens randomly to everyone -- not often enough to be annoying but enough that it's noticeable. There's not really a thing you can do about it except change poses. "Stuttering," however, is a fairly new problem. You may be seeing the bug reported in SH-2031 [PUBLIC] Persistent Viewer 2 Framerate "Stutter". There's not much you can do about that either, other than waiting for bug fixes that are apparently scheduled for some future upgrade. Not that it helps you necessarily, but when I build a pose stand my script always include a snippet that identifies and deactivates each animation that is currently in your avatar, so that it won't interfere with the anim in the pose stand itself. I suspect that many of the good ones in shops do the same thing.
  17. No, nobody hacked your account. You're dealing with a clunky system, so you have to be patient and follow a couple of simple rules that shouldn't be necessary in any other system ....... To get a record of the individual items in your order, open Marketplace and click the My Marketplace menu at the top of the page. Select My Account >> Order History from the pulldown menu. If you do not receive items within about 24 hours, you should cut and paste the information about a missing item from that Order History and send it in a IM or notecard to the merchant, along with a polite message requesting redelivery. Most merchants are very kind and willing to redeliver. This happens all the time and they are aware of it. Do be patient, though. Not everyone logs in to SL every day or checks their e-mail. If you still haven't heard in another day or two, follow it up with a second polite note and finally, if you STILL haven't heard, file a support ticket at https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ , selecting Marketplace from the pulldown menu. Not that it helps now, but here are those two rules to remember for the future: (1) Don't overuse the shopping cart. It is easily confused if you put more than a couple of things in it. (2) Don't buy things from Marketplace (especially LOTS of things) unless you are in world to receive them at the time. We each have an "in box" that holds IMs, notecards, group notices, group invitations, and anything that is delivered to us if we aren't in world at the time. That "in box" can only hold 25 things, total. If anything else comes in, it isn't saved. It is gone ... poof .... forever. If you have a mess of things delivered from Marketplace and half your friends send you notecards, that in box will be capped and you will never know what happened.
  18. Always download viewers from their own web site, not from a random site that you have Googled on the Internet. Because the viewer code is open source, there are pirated versions available. Some of them either have bugs or were designed to be malicious. If you want a "safe" version of any of LL's own viewers, use the download links accessible from http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Release_Notes . If you want a Third Party Viewer, use only ones that are self-certified as compliant with LL's TPV policy, and download them only from the links on this page >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory .
  19. If you are receiving an error when starting the Second Life viewer that says your graphics card is unsupported or your graphics drivers are out of date and you know that your card meets the system requirements, then this procedure will most often correct the problem. Usually this message appears when you have upgraded from a previous version of Windows, or when a Windows Update conflicts with an installed graphics driver. It can also mean that Windows Update has installed a graphics driver for you that does not have full support for SecondLife or that your graphics driver is not Windows certified. Download the latest graphics driver from the chipset manufacturer (ATI, Nvidia, or Intel) not the maker of your graphics card or computer. Save the file where you can easily find it, but do not install it yet. Run Windows Update and make sure your system is fully patched. (Optional) You may download Driver Sweeper or a similar utility to remove all traces of your old driver. Reboot your computer and enter Safe Mode by pressing F8 at the Windows logo screen. Uninstall your old video driver. You can either use Driver Sweeper or Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager (steps will vary: this applies to Windows XP) and then opening "Display Adapters" and right-click and choose "Uninstall." Reboot your computer. If Windows displays a message that it found new hardware, do not let it automatically install drivers. Instead, run the installation program that you downloaded in step 1. Reboot your computer You should now have a clean version of your video driver.
  20. Rolig Loon

    laptop

    You can always upgrade. The question is, "How much money do you want to spend?" Spend some time reading http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Choosing_a_computer to learn what things are most important when you choose a computer to use in SL. That will help you be better prepared when you go shopping.
  21. Almost duplicate post. Original at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/how-to-make-a-tattoo/qaq-p/1245909 You can't move a tattoo around on your avatar. A tattoo feels like you ought to be able to slide it around like a decal, but that's the wrong way to think about it. A tattoo is really more like a logo on a transparent T-shirt. When you wear the T-shirt, the logo always ends up in the same spot. You can't slide it around. The only way to move it is to redesign the T-shirt itself. To do that, you'd need to have the tattoo image on your hard drive, load it into a graphic design program like GIMP or Photoshop, and create a new shirt.
  22. See >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Creating-clothing-and-tattoos/ta-p/700055 and watch the embedded video tutorial. See my answer to your almost identical post at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/how-do-u-make-a-tattoo-and-nmove-design-to-look-right/qaq-p/1245901, where you asked a slightly different question........
  23. 512 x 512 m is the size of the lot, not the size of the house. Just as in RL, some people have small houses on an acre of land and others squeeze a mansion onto the same lot. Regardless of how big your Linden House is, the big advantage is that it doesn't count against the lot's 117 prim allowance. A person with a big house can't put any more in it than someone with a smaller house, but both of them can add more than someone on a standard 512 x 512 lot who had to build his own house.
  24. You're free to modify it any way you like. If you remove the if statement at the start of the touch_start event, then it won't just work when llDetectedKey(0) == agent. The reason I wrote it that way was so that other people couldn't mess with my poses while I was on the stand, that's all. As far as "sinking" is concerned, ...... the pose stand turns transparent when you stand on it, if that's what you mean. That's another one of those things you can change if you want. Just change any llSetAlpha statements to 1.0 to be sure that the stand stays visible. If you really do sink in the stand, though, check to see that you didn't make it phantom.
  25. You don't go back. The owner of a sim or his representatives have the power to ban anyone for any reason, or for no reason at all. It's exactly the same power that you have in your own home in RL. However, most sim owners, especially in as busy a place as the London sims, are not eager to lose customers in their shops, so they don't ban people without a pretty good reason. You can send her a very polite notecard to ask why you were banned and ask her to let you back in, but don't be surprised if you get no response. SL is a very big place. It's time to move on.
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