"unsupported" driver my ***

hey folks....dont post often i know but who cares....


seriously are you kidding me? i (today) installed the latest viewer and still get that annoying "error" message that reads:

"Second Life is unable to run because your video card drivers did not install properly are outdated or for unsupported hardware please make sure you have the latest bla bla bla yadda yadda"

and before you start bashing me around:

Intel Core2Quad Q9550

XFX GTX260 (WITH latest and SUPPORTED drivers everything else works FINE!)

4gigs of RAM (kingston)

1.5TB hds (3 sperate drives)

Vista Ultimate 64bit


that pretty much sums it up ALL(!) games i have run perfectly FINE so why does second crap NOT? is linden really so incompetent to not support a widley used graphics card?

</rant>

Is this the driver you are using?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_191.07_whql.html

thats correct except that i have the german version since well....you can guess it i presume

I know that card works with SL. I'm not exactly sure I've read or heard that anyone uses that card on Vista 64 but I'm sure there are some some who do. The card may be "unsupported" by LL because it has not been tested..........it takes time for the developers actually test all those new cards that come out weekly, it seems. You should be able to continue during log in despite the message. But it seems you cannot. That makes me think that there actually is something wrong with your driver.

When you installed that driver did you uninstall the older one you were replacing first? That's an important step before any driver upgrade........especially video drivers. There are third party driver cleaner programs that many here in the forums use ("Driver Cleaner" is one.........Google it if you are interested). I, personally, don't use such programs but I do uninstall my drivers before I install or upgrade. That has worked for me without incident for quite a few upgrades............probably over 100 in my lifetime. If you did not do that then I suggest you go to nVidia's site and download the driver again and save to your hard drive (don't run from the site). Then uninstall (or use a driver cleaner program) your present driver and when you do the required reboot don't let Windows search for on install a driver for your card (Windows will see your card without a driver and treat it as new hardware). Then install the driver you downloaded.

And if that does not work, you can try a different driver. I did some searching and that GTX260 uses the same drivers as my 9800GTX+ card (for either 32 or 64 bit). I use driver version 185.85 for my card and have absolutely no issues with SL. It might be worth a try. But remember to uninstall the driver you are replacing first.

Hope something I've said helps.

Linden Labs apparently is unaware of the Nvidia 200 series. I found that installing the latest driver before installing SL worked for my system.

If you have problems, you can also right-click on the shortcut for SL and in the Properties box add "--noprobe" after the target line. That will stop SL fro looking for your graphics card so you can set it manually. Then just use the Properties menu in SL to set the slider to Ultra for your card, and under the Hardware Options you can turn on AA (I use 4x and it looks great, others with your hardware say 16x runs fine) and move the memory slider up to 512 (the max video memory SL will use for textures).