Display Driver has stopped responding

[Roxana Mavros]

Shortly after entering SL, I recieve the message 'Display Driver has stopped responding" then I crash. I've installed and uninstalled a number of SL viewers, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Problems started on July 10. I've checked my graphics card and it's working fine.

Please will some kind soul save me? I work in SL in a university and this is so not good :(

These are my stats:

Second Life 2.7.4 (235167) Jul  8 2011 11:39:10 (Second Life Release)
Release Notes

CPU: AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-60 (1900 MHz)
Memory: 2814 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 8200M G/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.15.0011.8644
OpenGL Version: 3.0.0

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v6.4.1
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Not Connected

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Go to Nvidia's site (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us) and update the drivers. You can use Option 2 and it will find the right drivers for you (you may have to try it in different browsers; works for me in IE, but not in Firefox).

[Everest Piek]

umm

as silly as it might sound: did you try to run the viewer as an administrator?

this is really sounding like the videocard is trying to load a saved texture from the cache but actually cant find any because vista and its strange overprotective system is refusing to write/overwrite any textures in the cache

ev

[161488303349]

If is always happening on the same sim then there's probably a viewer crasher object on the sim. There is one loose inworld that crashes NVidia cards. It glows very very brightly and is animated as well. You have to block it, or the person wearing it before it overloads your card. Once blocked you can either return it or AR if necessary.