Panic Mode Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I bought my HP Envy 17 a year and half ago. Imagine my surprise when I tried to open second life and got the black and or white screen of "your video card is not compatible". I googled and dug through here and found some loop hole.. a registry hack or something pretty easy that allowed me to log on.Windows updated. It erased what I had done, I can't remember what I'd done and now can't seem to find the info anywhere. Can ANYBODY help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panic Mode Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 I remembered.. I figured I'd answer my own question for anybody else who has this problem in the future. It's the windows seven areo display that, for some reason, screws it. If you're running off of a radeon 7850M video card and when you open your viewer you get a solid black screen, a solid white screen or a two toned screen this is the problem. Go to control panel > apperance and personalization > personalize and select one of the "Basic and High Contrast" themes. I didn't even have to shut down the frozen viewer. It insantly loaded correctly. I have no idea why this problem exists.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Panic Mode, you have a marvellously appropriate name, and now you've found the solution again (well done, and thank you for sharing that), you should be called Panic Over. :matte-motes-big-grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake1 Nightfire Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 just as a side note,.. the ati radeon hd 7850M does not met the minimum requirements for running SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyll Bergbahn Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Drake, AMD changed the ATI branding to AMD at least two years ago so the Radeon HD 7850M is not an ATI card, it's AMD and it not only meets the minimum requirements, it exceeds them by a sizeable margin. The desktop 7850 is up there with the Nvidia GTX 570 while the notebook 7850M provides about the same performance as the desktop Nvidia GTX 550 Ti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake1 Nightfire Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 i suppose LL should update the minimum requirements page then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chibbchichi Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 On a sidenote... it's not really the wrong theme selected but Aero running. That's the 3D mode of the desktop in Vista and Win 7. With selecting an alternative theme you probably disabled Aero aswell which fixed the white login screen. What you also could do would be: - Rightclick your shortcut or executable to SL - Properties - Compatibility - check "Disable Visual Designs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoteDote Edison Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Excellent! This solved my problem as well. Radeon HD7870 and 65" TV connected HDMI-HDMI and every other game in the universe runs perfectly (some in 3D). Even Rage runs very well - the only other OpenGL game that I've played recently. But no Second Life on this computer since Summer. And such a simple solution. I did fill out a bug report with AMD a week ago, before I saw this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzzi Kiranov Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Please help! I've got a ati raedon too and this didn't seem to help Im running a HP DV8000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyll Bergbahn Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Suzzi, the HP DV8000 is a seven or eight year old budget laptop which doesn't have the processor, memory or graphics card (an ATI radeon 128 MB Xpress card) to allow it run Second Life no matter what you do. Time to invest in a new gaming laptop that will run SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzzi Kiranov Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Awe ok Ty!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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