Major Graphical Glitches

Try running this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Video-Card-Stability-Test.shtml

Let us know if you get any graphical corruption. I'm leaning toward saying your video card is FUBAR.

Yeah I am im also getting the test failed

Someone told me that its a problem with the card and until nvidia stops releasing utter shit and fixes the problem, looks like I won't be logging into SL for awhile.

But until a fix is release or something... i just found my stock card that came with the PC looks like I will have to use this *sigh* but hey, atleast im duel core...

Honestly, it sounds like your card is just dying, and that's nothing that Linden Labs can fix, or that nVidia can fix with a driver.

If it works fine with your old card, I'd suggest splurging a bit for a new video card.

Whats the best card on the market right now? nvidia or ATI

SL tends to perform better with nVidia cards at the moment.

To get rid of the Polygon problem, go under "preferences", "Graphics" (make sure you put a check mark on "Custom" and under the Hardware Options, uncheck the box that says "Enable Open GL Vertex Buffer Objects". It should fix that problem.

Unfortunately for me, on two of my machines the new viewers (doesn't matter if it's Windlight or the normal viewer) seems to have a memory leak so bad it could be called a memory hemorrhage! One machine is ATI and the other is Nvidia. The graphics drivers have been updated and, in a last ditch effort to find the problem I ran a video card stability test program and it was fine. The problem is with the viewers. I can only run SL for a couple of minutes before my FPS drops to 0.4. <bangs head on desk> Guess I'll have to wait for a new viewer & hope they fix this so I can play SL again.

Well this is odd... I don't seem to have any problems now...

What I did was I opened up my case and instead of removing the video card, I just cleaned out all the dust inside (quite a bit) and removed the screw that keeps the card snug now it seems to run find... knock on wood.

That sounds like your card somehow got unseated in the slot.........or maybe a small amount of dust or corrosion got lodged between the contacts for the card and motherboard slot. That's something I should have thought about myself..........it has happened to me once about a year ago.

Glad your got it all fixed.

didnt think of it either, eventho i often take pencil erasers to the "goldfingers" of all my cards quite often

interesting note tho, i have an old geforce 2 GTS, after 7 years of being severely over clocked and as you imagine heated up the board no longer sits perpendicular to the slot as it should

the top of the card is nearly a full half inch to the left, and if you screw it into the provided hole the contacts no longer fully contact on one side of the agp slot and of course will not work

leaving it unscrewed and in its magic position works fine, but leaves the card very prone to the slightest bump, which could cause a system lock or worse damage

my solution to that issue (on that old beater of a 1.3ghz amd thats no longer with us) was to drill a new hole where the card liked to sit