Steve Passariello

Cody, I know this is an older one.. but it seems you are in the same boat I was in... this was a problem with your video driver setting. Here is the weird issue, Second Life uses Open GL vs Direct X. What I found out, is with this laptop you have "2 video processors", the nvidia and the onboard intel. What was happening to me, was the driver was not configured correctly to change to the "NVIDIA" graphics card vs the onboard. Once I updated the display driver (from the NVIDIA site, not the dell drivers, which as SOOOOO behind), I was able to configure SL and Firefox to use the right card. It was sooo good to get it to finally work. The i7 Dell XPS 15 is WAY POWERFUL to use SL.. I get wonderful graphics and good frame speeds. I would recommend for you or anyone else on the NVIDIA cards to make sure the PC is usuing the NVIDIA and not the onboard graphics when using SL. "Originally developed by Silicon Graphics in the early '90s, OpenGL® has become the most widely-used open graphics standard in the world.. NVIDIA supports OpenGL and a complete set of OpenGL extensions, designed to give you maximum performance on our GPUs. NVIDIA continues to support OpenGL as well through technical papers and our large set of examples on our NVIDIA Graphics SDK." So the newer drivers should work fine... they do work well for me!

Here is another option.. if you want more of a faster/techno/club dance.... ToonTopia..... http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Toon%20Town/177/128/30 I actually have some pictures on my blog.... http://rezvirtualworld.blogspot.com/2011/09/toontopia-dance-club-get-your-dance-on.html Hope this helps???

I am sorry.. I have to second Magicland park... if you read my blog, you will see it was romantic for me... but I also enjoyed WEDCOT.. (like EPCOT)... you can see fireworks.. and walk around and go on rides together. If you are a couple, you can both chip in $500L and get a Frank's Elite membership.... But there is a great (but way more laggy) free version - Frank's Jazz ... it is a great date place or to meet someone. WEDCOT - Blog entry

Thanks Storm.. and I will do that... I have started looking at other blogs and linking them to mine. It is actually a lot of fun finding cool places and getting to share them with a lot of people.

If you guys have any requests for type of places or any feedback or comments, let me know... I really enjoy finding and sharing new places in SL.

I actually never tried the 8th Element.... It all depends... what you like.. Laggy (and popular) are.... Frank's Place Dance Island Bogurt's Muddy's is nice too... and I like the Black Horse if you like country.....

Just wanted to let you know I have started a blog over a month ago on what to do around SL.... It explains different things like hunts, breedables, etc.. and highlights different and cool places to visit. It is still newer.. but I hope you may find it useful. If you are curious --> http://rezvirtualworld.blogspot.com/ My recent posts were about Disney like sims on SL, some hunts... and other nice places to visit... Hope it helps!!!