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New Nvidia drivers installed yesterday, today crash
Celerity Epoch
Genius in absentia
Join date: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
12-10-2002 17:13
I'm noticing crashes that appear to be random, I get in world, build for a while, then just die.

Anyone else using these drivers and getting this?

Gonna revert to my last set and see if it goes away
Orrey Stone
Huh?
Join date: 5 Dec 2002
Posts: 42
12-11-2002 08:01
Great - report back on what you find on revert - I am also on latest Nvidia drivers and have been crashing every 10 - 20 minutes If I move much. It seems stable if I remain in one place , like working on a object etc, but if I fly or turn alot Ill crash.
Celerity Epoch
Genius in absentia
Join date: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
sadly
12-11-2002 08:27
after reverting I am still crashing frequently enough. after the 6th crash of the evening I gave up so I could come back to it today.
Celerity Epoch
Genius in absentia
Join date: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
still happening
12-11-2002 20:35
I think I have somehow displeased the gods, as I now have difficulty staying online for more than 15-20 mins at a time. I can spot no commonality between my crashes save the crash itself. Happens in the middle of conversations, while I'm building, while I'm flying around, as I'm coding.
Pat Murphy
The Wandering Wizard
Join date: 2 Dec 2002
Posts: 142
12-11-2002 22:18
I upgraded and I am only having problems when I'm doing a lot of flying at high altitudes over large distances, in which case it has a tendency to crash. I hadn't noticed this problem before, but I haven't been using long or regularly enough to give an accurate comparison. I did revert to the older drivers for a while, and saw no change. I'm happy with the performance at the moment as long as I'm sitting in one place or moving slowly.

One thing to note: If you use the nView desktop manager, and start Second Life on a desktop besides your default, sound will not work. Can anybody confirm this or is it just me?

-Pat Murphy
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Celerity Epoch
Genius in absentia
Join date: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
I'm gonna tweak...
12-12-2002 07:12
my settings.
I'd tried setting my view distance to 256, last week, maybe I'll drop back to 128 and see if there's any change.
Steller Sunshine
Idontre Member
Join date: 13 Mar 2002
Posts: 237
Celerity
12-12-2002 09:05
Sorry to hear your having the crashing problems, had wondered where you went! Hang in there!
Doug Linden
Linden Lab Developer
Join date: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
12-13-2002 16:24
If you're crashing frequently, we want to hear from you... Our stability in our office is pretty good, but we don't have the variety of hardware (and software) that our users have.

See the link below for how to report a crash.

/111/2a/65/1.html

We're also going to make it a lot easier to report crashes, and have also fixed many crashes in our development tree. When the new release is out(which is soon!), you'll hopefully see some improvement, so hang in there...

- Doug
Celerity Epoch
Genius in absentia
Join date: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 179
my crashing
12-13-2002 16:35
seems to have been mitigated by dropping my viewing distance from 512 to 256
Mikey Zebrastripe
Registered User
Join date: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 3
12-17-2002 20:52
I also have been experiencing crashes after a few minutes that so far seem to occur while flying. I did not experience any of these crashes with the old client. It was very stable. However, I have also just upgraded to the latest 41.09 Nvidia drivers (the ones that are not yet WHQL certified). I have a feeling the problem may be the video drivers rather than the client. The drivers that I had before were 40.73 or somewhere in that range. I am going to roll back the drivers and see if that could be the cause. Is their anyone out there at the moment not experiencing crashes that is running WinXP with a Geforce4 Ti 4200 with 41.09 drivers? Maybe this can be narrowed down to a certain hardware/driver configuration.