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Swift McCoy
Junior Member
Join date: 29 Apr 2004
Posts: 1
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04-30-2004 09:48
I just signed up for the game last night I was all excited to play and it says something about driver s installed and that I cant play with a generic video card is there a way around this...
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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04-30-2004 09:59
Second Life features a state of the art 3D graphics engine, which requires a high-end graphics card to run well, preferrably an nVidia FX card.
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Moleculor Satyr
Fireflies!
Join date: 5 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,650
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04-30-2004 11:05
"Generic video card"
You mean a GeForce isn't common enough to be 'Generic'?
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Pedro Pendragon
Registered User
Join date: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 77
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04-30-2004 14:17
We got secondlife to run with the onboard video on the Dell we just bought. It's a Dimension 4600 and comes with "Intel Extreme Graphics 2" integrated video.
It was definitely usable, but not nearly as pretty as the nvidia we bought soon thereafter.
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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04-30-2004 15:31
You need a video card with 3D acceleration. If yours is just a 2D card, SL won't run.
If you can figure out the specific card you're using with the generic video driver, you can install the proper drivers for it and it may work just fine. Do you know what model of card it is? Do you know if it's a seperate card or on your motherboard? Is this a laptop?
Do you know what video card you actually have? It's likely you just have to install the video drivers and it'll work fine.
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
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04-30-2004 23:41
I just got a computer with a Trident 9680 graphics card. Will that work with SecondLife? 
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