CreateRmSysmemSurface: __glNvRm AllocMemory64 failed 42 ?? Please Help

CreateRmSysmemSurface: __glNvRm AllocMemory64 failed 42
CreateRmSysmemSurface: __glNvRm AllocMemory64 failed 42
CreateRmSysmemSurface: __glNvRm AllocMemory64 failed 42
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This is the message I sometimes have when I log in SL. A second window appears with it and everything starts working bad, rezzing textures, tps and so.. finally I crash.
I wonder if it may be due to my graffic card, I recently bought a new computer with Vista´s and ndivia geforce 7100. Im not very skill with computers iusses. Thank you in advance.

That second window is the Console Window. It's a debugging tool. Don't try to close it, or the whole viewer will close along with it. Instead turn it off by unchecking it in the Advanced menu. (Ctrl-alt-D will add the Advanced menu to your menu bar, if you don't already have it enabled.)

The error itself has to do with memory allocation. From what I just found by Googling for the error message, apparently your video card is trying to utilize additional memory from system RAM, and it's failing to do so. You might want to try lowering your texture memory slider in Preferences -> Graphics -> Hardware Options. Keep it at or below 512MB, since that's what the GeForce 7100 has onboard. I'm not certain that that will solve the problem, but it's worth a shot.

You're not the only one to experience this issue, by the way. The first place Google led me was here: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-9017 . Unfortunately there's no solution posted.



One thing you said puzzles me. A "new" computer came with a GeForce 7100? Are you sure it was new? That card is 3 years out of date. Further, as much as I hate to make you feel bad about your purchase after the fact, I have to point out that the 7100 was the absolute lowest of the low end, even when it was current. I'd highly recommend you invest in a better video card.

So you know, with most nVidia cards, the first digit denotes the manufacturing series, and the second indicates the card's performance level within the series. The second digit is the one that's most important. Anything x1xx is going to be quite bad. For SL, I wouldn't recommend going below x6xx.

8600's go for all of $50-75 these days. They're not exactly new or super high end, but they're good. An 8600 GT would run circles around that old clunker of yours.