ATI Radeon, OpenGL, Second Life, and Avimator

I recently upgraded to a new video card, an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro.

With the latest drivers, the graphics in Second Life look terrific. For the first time, I can finally see the clouds in the sky and glow and water reflections!

However, when I started working on an animation for Second Life in QAvimator, I discovered that mouse double-clicks were now broken in OpenGL. The same thing happened in Avimator. When I click once, it works correctly, although with a weird delay. If I double-click, the second click registers in the center of the screen instead of where I was pointing the mouse. The result is that I can ONLY double-click on something if it is in the exact center of the screen. Very very broken and frustrating.

I experimented with all of the previous drivers available from ATI and found that the newest driver where double-click works is 7.11 while the oldest driver where shaders work is 7.12. Anything before 7.12 results in shaders looking horribly blocky and ugly, like viewing in 256-color VGA mode.

Has anyone run into symptoms similar to this and found a solution? Please help!

I actually had to deal with this problem today, except my problem came with Poser.

The problem was resolved when I decreased the graphics hardware acceleration when using Poser (I found this on the e-frontier website).

Go to your Control Panel - Display - Settings. Click the Advanced button, then the Troubleshooting tab. You'll probably see that hardware accelaration is fully on. Turn it off, and you might be able to use Avimator.

Now, I don't know yet whether I'll have to turn hardware acceleration back on when running SL, I haven't tried that yet.

I had same problem with ATI, and I just found here in the forum, that all you have to do is to go into preferences>grafich>hardware and uncheck VBO then you should be doing better