Peggy Paperdoll

I have no bones to pick with any of the ratings. General is fine though I seldom go to parcels or regions with the G rating. Moderate is great for me........mostly because my parcel is moderate and every parcel in the sim I live on is moderate (and the mainland continent is almost all moderate). And I occassionally go to adult regions if something there is interesting or I have some reason to go (like shopping or to see some build I've heard about). I just obey the rules for the area I'm in at the time........I'm pretty easy that way (if I don't want to obey the rules then it's very easy for me to just TP away..........I do it all the time, in fact). There is another reason why some people opt to rate their region or parcel to A. I'm an adult in RL (and not just a new adult.........I've been one for quite some time now) and being an adult I'm not interested in playing nursemaid to minors. I don't have time (or the patience) to be dealing with some 15 year old's issues about Bobby pulling pigtails. I know minors can infiltrate the moderate and adult areas (and I'm sure they do) but, at least, when they do so they are knowingly cheating and generally try to act adult like.......they don't snivel as much when they think it will give their secret up. Setting the region to adult is putting up the biggest block possible to those minors. And I believe some of the adult areas are rated that way just that reason.

It sounds like you are tryiing to run SL using some machine that does not run either Windows (XP, Vista, Win 7 or Win 8), a Mac OS, or a Linux distro. All those operating systems are supported by the official Second Life viewers and most likely all third party viewers (TPVs)..........I say most likely for the TPVs since there could be a few that are not coded for one or more of the major operating systems run on modern computers. Or you could be trying to run SL on a smart phone or tablet........those OS's are generally not supported by most viewers. There are a couple of viewers available that will run SL in a very limited way. I don't know what viewers those might be but someone will come along soon who does.

Star, it would be best to create your own thread. That way there won't be distractions and confusion about who anyone might be responding to......the OP or you. And in order to get the most from your quesion and have a much greater chance for a successful resolution, include an accurate discription of the problem plus any error messages (if you get them). Probably the most important thing to include (on any technical question no matter where you ask) are some computer specifications, the operating system you use, the SL viewer you use and how you connect to the Internet.

I don't believe you can "upgrade" Snowglobe. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Snowglobe This page was last updated July 12, 2011 (that's nearly a year and a half ago).

Second Life, like many other online games/platforms, has minimum system requirements in order to run successfully. When you installed the SL viewer, it performs a basic check of the hardware in your computer to determine if that hardware will run SL. That check revealed hardware in your computer that does not reach that minimum requirement......in other words, as it stands right now, that check determined that you will not be able to run SL successfully. Specifically, it found the graphics capabilities of your computer are where it fails to meet the minimum. Exactly what the problem is cannot be specifically spelled out since your graphics capabilities could be caused by many factors.........not just your GPU is too weak. That message probably said something about maybe your video drivers need to be updated. And, that would be the very first thing to address..........update your video card/adapter drivers. Giving some computer specifications would be something that would allow a better answer than the one I just gave. Without information about the computer it's impossible to give help......nothing but general advise about drivers and system requirements (which probably are not going to help you much at all). Use the "Options" in the upper right corner of your post and "Edit" to add the system specs and any other information you might have that will help others to help you. Please don't start a new thread. A pretty thorough article on a computer that will run SL well is http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Choosing_a_computer Read the article in it's entirity and follow the links provided. Most, if not all, your questions will be answered there.

Well it souds like Second Life is just not for you. If you are not willing to do what it takes to make SL work the way you want it to work (whatever that may be.....I don't have the foggiest idea myself) then maybe it's time to just delete your account, uninstall the viewer (if more than one, uninstall those too), and move on. Good luck.

"... Creating skins or clothing outside of SL "specifically suited for SL Avatar use" just for the fun of it, then dumping the designs seems a little bit suspicious to me. ..." ------------------------------------------ Why is that suspicious? I learned to make skins by using (actually tearing apart) the templates I obtained legally from Eloh Elloit a few years ago. I made skins just for the fun of it. Somewhere in the inventories of this account and my alt account I have about 30 or 40 skins ranging from the very bad (read ugly) to pretty darned good (the skin I wear 99% of the time right now is one of the "for fun" skins I made a couple years ago). I've given some of my skins away to friends (even strangers who expressed an interest). Though I have not given them as "freebies" I have consided it in the past for newbies. Everything about the skins I created is on the up and up..........entirely legal and the later "models" are 100% mine. I used the templates just like I use the avatar templates for clothing (as guides and those templates are not part of the uploaded skins). If I want to "dump" my skins, then that's well within my rights as creator and well within the ToS. I made them, I own them, and I can give them to whoever I want. I can put restrictions on them if I choose or I can give them without limitations (afterall that's exactly what Eloh did years ago with her skins templates.......she gave them away to us for free). Do you suspect her? I don't..........I'm enternally grateful for her generousity.

There are probably as many reasons why one would choose to go that route as there are reasons for not going that route. I'm not endorsing the use of third party wedsites but, then again, I won't condemn the use of them either. The likelihood of using illegally obtained content on Marketplace is just about as great as any other place on the Internet. The only difference is that LL has control and assuming LL is a trusted company that would be a plus. But it's alway, ultimately, up to the user to make sure the content is legal. That's the crux of digital content.......it's very hard, if not impossible, to know for sure who the legal owner of the content is.

Copyright infringement laws still apply no matter where you might sell digital content. As long as you do not violate any law you are free to sell what you want on the Internet. Linden Lab does not care how the the content is produced or distributed as long as it's not violating any US or LL law. To be honest, LL cannot know that you are not the creator of content once it's uploaded.........a TGA file is a TGA file no matter who or where it was originally made. I could send you a TGA file of one of the skins I've made for myself and you could turn around and upload that same, un-altered, file and LL can not tell who the original creator is.....me or you. Just obey the laws and don't plagerize content.

Just like real life, that's the hazards of having a free society. Adult regions may very well have saved LL's butt....but the opposite is still quite possible. If not for adult regions could SL have expanded exponentially faster and larger? No one knows that answer.

Statistics. Don't we love them. Below is the current Second Life Grid Survey. Ownership Total General Moderate Adult Offline Total Area (km²) Total 27706 3924 19842 3932 8 1815.74 Linden Owned 7098 1725 5026 346 1 465.17 Private Estates 20608 2199 14816 3586 7 1350.57 Bless Jack's heart. He actually got it nearly dead on for Linden Owned land (4.9%.......that's the red highlighted text. But it seems he believed the private sector would follow LL's lead. He missed that by about 12.5% (17.4%.....that's the orange highlighted text). I guess us civilians are more perspicuous than LL. Just take a look at the General regions that LL owns compared to the Private Estates. Naughty, naughty us :smileyvery-happy:

"...And I only say relatively because there's that old saying, "Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool." I really wish I could remember who coined that phrase so I could give credit where it is due. ..." ----------------------------------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_proof

I have faith in AMD. Just about the same as I have with nVidia (the chipset manufacturer I happen to use and prefer). It has nothing to do with AMD.........it has everything to do with Toshiba (in this case). I haven't explored AMD's driver site in about a year but I know they used to caution users to get the laptop drivers from the computer manufacturer..........as did nVidia. Since I don't use a laptop, I can't say they still caution users (but I bet they do). Generally speaking when updating or installing drivers (any driver, but especially video drivers since graphics are so critical to any computer) to read the proper way to install the driver and all cautionary notes. Things change in the driver installation area so, even if you do know what you are doing, it's a good idea to read the "how to" every now and then.

I know it's very common here in the forums to always tell users to go to the graphics chipset manufacturers for any driver update. And that's usually sound advice........for desktops. However, for many (if not most) laptops that's not the place to go for graphics drivers. Laptop makers are constantly fighting battery issues (the batteries just don't last that 6 hrs they spout in the promos). One way the manufacturers help to extend the battery life is that they ask (or commission) the graphics manfufacturers to develop drivers that are easier on the batteries.....in other words they use customized drivers. Lots ot times (and I believe you are experiencing one of those times) the drivers you get from the graphic chipset manufacturers just don't work properly......the computer is wanting (and needing) a the custom driver written for the specific computer the graphics hardware is installed. You need to go to Toshiba for your graphics driver. But betore you install that driver, since you already have a driver installed that is probably incorrect for you system, before installing the driver you get from Toshiba. Another common advice given in the forum, which is just as dangerous, is that you need the latest driver. That's absolutely false. You need a driver that works for you and what you need it to do........that is often not even close to the "latest" driver. Yes, you got a message that your driver may be out of date and were advised to update the driver. Normally that fixes the problem........but, if it doesn't then you have to find one that does work for you. Dropping back a one (or more) versions is the fix. That's true for desktops as well as laptops. If you are having driver issues or suspected driver issues, then try updating. If that fixes the problem then great.......if it doesn't then you havee some other problem (and dropping back to an earlier version is often the fix). Video drivers are tricky. They really should be installed carefully and properly. When they are not then you get some real strange problems that just don't make much sense. You need to be systematic in finding the problem and correcting it. Throwing the kitchen sink at the problem causes confusion, which causes you to do more unnecessary stuff, which leads to more problems (mostly unrelated to the original problem). It gets complicated and it really should not. Rule of thumb for video drivers. For desktops go the graphics chipset manufacturer's driver site. For a laptop go the laptop manufacturer's driver site. The driver you get there is probably not going to be the "latest"......but that driver should work. If it doesn't then contact the laptop manufacturer.

The answer may be here: _______________________________ HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed/uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant device ("the source device") to a compatible digital audio device, computer monitor, video projector, or digital television.[1] HDMI is a digital replacement for existing analog video standards. There are a number of HDMI-standard cable connectors available, each of which can be used for any uncompressed TV or PC video format, including standard, enhanced, high definition, and 3D video signals; up to 8 channels of compressed or uncompressed digital audio; a CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) connection; and an Ethernet data connection. HDMI implements the EIA/CEA-861 standards, which define video formats and waveforms, transport of compressed, uncompressed, and LPCM audio, auxiliary data, and implementations of the VESA EDID.[2][3] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check to see if you are using the proper cable for what you want to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

A sort of deep Google search found this site: http://techtips.salon.com/difference-between-gts-gtx-nvidia-video-cards-29181.html After reading several articles I arrived at the same conclusion that I've held for a very long time.........it really doesn't mean much beyond "bragging rights" for the hard core gamers. Here's a summation that seems to be the concenus: ---------------------------------------------------- Considerations When choosing a video card, it's best to look deeper than the GPU number -- especially if you're trying to hit a "sweet spot" between price and performance. Take a look at the number of processor cores, the MHz speed of the GPU, the memory bandwidth and all of the other detailed specs. In general, however, whether the GPU is called GT, GTS or GTX makes very little difference. ---------------------------------------- If you find a card that fits your budget and it happens to be a GTX then go for it....if not, you won't see any noticible difference between a GT, GTS or GTX.

To expand a little on Rolig's answer, it's always best to download any program setup file to your hard drive and not install from the website. A couple things that the simple act of saving to your hard drive are (1) it gives you the opportunity to run any anti-virus or mal-ware software across it (yes, even from trusted sites it's a good idea). And (2) you have a complete copy of the setup file that you can move to a location on your drive where, if necessary or desired, you can, at a later date, run the setup again (in this case, think how easy it would be to simply re-install the older viewer that you prefer or need).

Actually Windows 8 is pretty poor in the driver area. Being a new operating system all Microsoft includes in their driver pool are generic and/or old drivers. Most people with Windows 8 have driver issues (do a quick search of the forums and you'll see a pretty good sampling of the issues others are having with drivers). Use the search "Windows 8 problem"......most of the problems are driver related. So you re-installed the driver for your video.........I hope you did a "clean" installation instead of installing the new driver over the top of the old one. That leaves your graphics device and it's compatibility. If you would simple do the obvious and list your computer specs you might get some advice or suggestions from some of the people here. I know I'm not going to just throw out guesses until, on the very off chance, something works. You have to help a little yourself......giving specifications is just about as easy as it gets.

The error message is telling that you either have a corrupted (damaged) video driver, or you have an out of date video driver, or you video adapter/card is not supported by the Second Life software. Re-installing your viewer will not fix that. You need to fix the problem which has something to do with your video capabilities. Did you install or re-install the driver as LL suggested? If it's merely a driver issue that should fix it for you.......it's it due to your video adapter/card being unsupported then the fix is to get another adapter/card that is supported (and having the proper driver for that video adapter/card).

Someone filed a DMCA take down notice with Linden Lab on content that you had in your inventory. LL is obligated by law to any take action they can to remove the content that is found to be copied illegally and distributed. You are not suspected of copying the content. You did, however, have some of the content in question. You're not trouble with LL at this time......unless you are the one who copied the content (which LL, evidently does believe you are). The content is gone and will not be returned unless the DMCA complaint turns out to be in error (or false). There's nothing you can do to get the content back. The only person who can get content returned is the person the claim was filed against by filiing counter claim at which time the dispute moves outside LL's realm of control and into a real life court of law. In most cases a counter claim is never filed so your content is probably gone for good.

Contact your university's network administrator. It appears that your university doesn't want students accessing Second Life (or any program/game/or Internet site that uses as much bandwidth as SL). Internet access for students at universities or schools is intended for educational purposes (study, research or collaboration). Using a high bandwidth program like SL not only eats up bandwidth (which the school must pay for) it can slow the rest of the connections down for students using the university's network for it's intended purposes. If you succeed in circumventing the network's apparent ban on SL then you are cheating both the university (by increasing the bandwidth usage it must pay for) and the students who are trying to get something done that the Internet access was intended for. Go to a local hotspot or Internet cafe for your SL usage.

The HD 3000 graphics adapter will run SL. But it will work best with your preference settings at medium or below. Rolig has a great point on the camming around putting extra work on the graphics adapter and if your adapter was intergrated any place other than the CPU (which is where that graphics chipset is intergrated) you probably would not be in much danger of overheating the chipset. However, your graphics and CPU are bundled together which presents a very real possibility of producing enough heat to cause damage to the CPU (that is the heart of any computer.....it goes, your computer is completely down until the CPU is replaced. An i5 CPU is a little more than $200 USD.........and that's one that is on sale. Lower your settings in preferences.

The only suggestion I have right now is to list some computer specifications. The easiest way to get what is needed for help is to click on "About Second Life" under the "Help" menu. Copy the specs given and paste back here. Don't start a new thread. Use the "Options" in the upper right corner of your post and "Edit" to add the specs and any comment you might want to add.

Look what I found.

In a date field you would be required to put in numeric values between 0 and 9 for each number. So you say you are 23 years old and you would enter into the field four digits between 0 and 9 for each....those numbers would be 1 9 9 0. You could make a typographical error on any one of those numbers. For the first number (1) the only error that would remain a numeric value would be a 2. Making the numbers you entered 2 9 9 0...........the software will reject that number since that date is 977 years from now. For the second number the error could be either 8 or 0 making the number 1 8 9 0 or 1 0 9 0.......the software would probably reject that number too but maybe not (you'd be either 123 years old or 1023 years old.....but well over the 18 year old threshold to be an adult). For the third number the typo could be, again, 8 or 0 making the number 1 9 8 0 (or 33 years old) or 1 9 0 0 (or 113 years old)........probably accepted but you'd still be over the 18 year old threshold. And for the last digit the only numeric typo would be 9 making the date 1999............that date would reject because you would be 14 years old and you must be at least 16. So you see why everyone is so skeptical of your honesty? You didn't make a mistake at all. What you want to do is to lie about your age so that you can get into mature and/or adult areas in SL. A simple typo would probably not be difficult to get straightened out.........but you still will have to convince LL that it was an honest mistake. Missing your birth date by 5 years just does not add up. Which brings up something else.........do you not check what you enter into a form or application before submitting? So many mistakes can be caught by the few seconds of re-reading what was entered. I'm with Lindal.......you'll probably have to wait until next year. When you really do turn 18.