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Veris Gothly
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jun 2008
Posts: 1
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06-24-2008 18:16
When I try to run the program it says
Second Life is unable to run because your video card drivers are out of date or unsupported. Please make sure you have the latest video card drivers installed.
My specs are:
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
ATI Series 0x5975
Internal DAC 400 MHZ
Memory 318MB
Computer Specs
I have a AMD Turion Duo Processor
894MB Ram
32-Bit operating system
Plenty of space and I do have Direct X 10.
I've been on SL before on a computer far worse than this one. It's a dell and it's only about 5 months old. I'm not sure what the deal is, can anyone help me out please? I tried updating my drivers but not sure if it worked or if I got the right ones. Please help I want to get back on. Thank you.
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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06-24-2008 18:44
Since you said you have DirectX 10 I'm guessing you are using Vista as your operating system. If that's the case you are pretty low on system RAM. SL and Vista together comsume more than 1 gig.
Editing: DirectX has nothing to do with SL. SL uses OpenGL for grahics rendering.
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Osgeld Barmy
Registered User
Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
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06-24-2008 19:24
ahem vista is a different beast From: someone Windows Vista provides for three OpenGL implementations. The first maps OpenGL calls to Direct3D ones. This allows for hardware acceleration of OpenGL through version 1.4 from a standard install, but features of versions after 1.4 must be accessed as extensions. The second uses legacy Installable Client Drivers (ICD) available for Windows XP. This will disable the Aero desktop but otherwise functions as expected. The third is a full implementation that will work alongside the desktop and still allow access to OpenGL 2 on the GPU.[2] either way it should not make a difference try running sl in xp compatibilty mode, it might get you somewhere, but yea 1 gig of ram for vista + sl is quite low (all that eye candy eats ram and computer power, but hey at least it nags you every time you click  ) |