I've had my current laptop for 14 months now and it was £900, so high-spec. SL used to run like a dream on it, but after not using SL for a few months, I've come back to it (installed the latest viewer) and now it runs terribly slowly. I've not got a virus and all the other obvious stuff is all present and correct. Everything else on my laptop runs fine, including my 3D games (Call of Duty: Black Ops for example). It seems that wherever I am the textures take an absolute age to download and trying to move around is also a nightmare. I could basically stand in one place for ten minutes and after that time some of the textures have downloaded properly, some partially and some not at all. Of course I've tried the lowest detail settings but it makes no difference. I used to run SL on ultra and my laptop handled it really well. I'm wondering if it's the new viewer or that the SL servers are not coping anymore. If someone could help me out with this I'd be very grateful. Basically my specs are: Intel Core i5 processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 (512 megs dedicated), 4 gig RAM, 500 gig HDD, Windows 7 (64bit) Cheers.