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I just joined SL about 3 weeks ago. It seems like a world chock full of potential adventure, but I am having such severe issues that I may delete my account. It's a shame because I have bought Lindens and invested some in my avatar. 😔 A friend told me to use the Firestorm Viewer as it is more user friendly. I downloaded it about 3 weeks ago and other than the occasional lag, it seemed fine. I loaded in busy stores and rendered everyone almost without fail. Then, about four days ago, it began to malfunction badly. I was in a shop when it froze and I got the spinning wheel of doom. I tried again and got the same thing within a minute of logging in. Then, I started getting it right away. I would have to force close every time as it froze and said "Not responding." I tried loading in a different region. Same thing. I gave up that night and tried again in the morning. The freezing happened almost instantly. I finally uninstalled Firestorm and reviewed how to do a clean install. I followed the instructions, redownloaded Firestorm, and got the same result. I did searches, read forums, and took a day off. Today, I restarted/recycled my modem via my Internet provider. I downloaded Firestorm and it worked for a little while. I managed to buy a head at Lelutka (which was not letting me in AT ALL at one point) and was working on updating my avatar when the screen started blacking out. It would flash black - on - black - on - black - on. Like it was having a seizure. I logged out, logged back in. This time, I froze. Each log in produced the freezing issue or the black out/screen on issue again. That's a summary. Let me tell you everything else I have done to try and get SL to work and some info about my computer. I have Windows 10 and have downloaded the latest viewer for Windows. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 15 5501 Laptop purchased last year. I have 12 GB of ram. I was on IMVU before SL - and while IMVU does not require the same graphics rendering, I have always been able to use it and run multiple apps at once with little issue. I THINK my video card is dedicated. I am not a tech genius so I am not 100% sure. I just checked my download speed on my wifi and it's 381.10 mbps. Other things I have done to try and resolve: I have whitelisted Firestorm on my Avast firewall/security, done a clean install three times, cleaned my computer, checked for viruses, looked for and completed driver updates, rebooted/shutdown my laptop, loaded in quieter regions (which sometime allow me to hang on a few minutes but eventually, same result), and checked my processes to see if any unknown background application was dragging me down. I am completely lost. While I wanted to have a "Second Life," I have no desire to take days from my ACTUAL life to get the platform to work. Any suggestions aside from what I have already done would be so appreciated. If not, I will just call my small investment a loss and move on. Thank you so much in advance! -Clara 🦊

It's something that's been bothering me for a while, sometimes when i'm looking around with the Camera it changes mode or something and becomes very hard to move having to drag the mouse more, everything looks kind of flatter also the camera wont pass through walls and objects in this mode it's zooms into them instead, like it gets stuck on them. I don't know how to describe it or what to type into a search for a solution, so i included a short video where i tried to capture the effect (Switching between the two modes) I'm using Firestorm Viewer in case that's important, please let me know if there's a way to disable this mode, thank you (Edit: Sorry about the poor image quality but the max file size allowed on here is really small, i had to keep shortening and compressing the video and convert it to Gif too. But i do think it's necessary because this is a visual problem)

Okay... So I'm having an issue with sl where my camera wont centre on me when walking or pressing esc. It goes above my head so i cant see myself and does the same when i walk. is there any fix to this Also - Tried to uninstall it wiped all my documents c':

Im just about at my witts end. Sorry for being all over the place. Bad day as it is. So i click my secone life viewer and it wont go past Initializing VFS. Ive given it time. Ive reinstalled, hell i even tried firestorm. Im so fed up because i cant find answers anywhere. Not firestorm. Just the official SL viewer.

Hello dear fellow SL members, Regular I have this: when my avatar flies up, she gets stuck and keeps flying up. At the same time camera controls and top screen menu (like Advanced, Develop etc) are unable to use. Only thing I can do is relog. But, as you can guess, as soon as I try to fly I get stuck again. I tried /99 stop but that doesn't work. How do I solve this problem? Thank you in advance for your answer/help 🙂 Zia Branner

the back dress won't come off. there is no detatch option and when i go to previous outfits it just stays on her instead of removing itself. i messaged the seller for help, but no such luck since. what do i do? google doesn't seem to have much info on this problem, at least not for what i've been searching. the dress doesn't even show up in the worn category either as you can see in the picture below.

Okay, so I literally am just starting on Second Life tonight and I am stuck at the end of Learning Island in the room with the gate that leads to Social Island... every time I tried to enter the gate, it said that no valid parcel could be found or some such error to that effect. Another new person tried to enter there and could not do so either, so this was not just happening to me. So how does one leave Learning Island and get to Social Island? Or have I encountered some sort of weird bug? Like I said, I am totally new to Second Life so I have no idea what is up with that gate.

Recently I upgraded my head to a Catwa Bento. Unfortunately, my Animations HUD doesn't work 100%. Sometimes I need to keep my mouth open and it return to closed position, so I need to deactivate the option and play again. But the worst happen when my animation HUD got stuck and doesn't work at all. Even I can't detach it and need to restart the program to be able to use it. That happen in any place, laggy or not.

Hello everyone! I have a rather strange issue here, I can load youtube or any other page on my tv and play videos on it, but some videos (more specifically my OWN videos on youtube) never load. I just get the loading symbol stuck while the audio plays with no problem. So the video does load and everything, but the images are not there, just the loading symbol stuck in the middle of the screen. And the weird thing is that it only happens to the videos I have uploaded Any ideas? Thank you

Hi, Something have happen to my Maitreya Avatar, the HUD. I click on and nothing work. And so i go to Maitreya store and I have another one deliver to me, and I put on the newest version of Maitreya, and still HUD no work! I canna explain, but HUD is stuck and have very strange coz is open, and I see it, but is not just one button, and have all pages of HUD open, but stuck? And it do nothing, and I canna do nothing..and is hard for me to give explain, but may be someone have know what is problem and can help me?