SL is just a mess of flying coloured polygons

Help me? I just logged into SL for the first time in about 1 and a half months and all I can see is this mess of different coloured polygons, on a black background, moving violently around the scene. Occasionally I get a glimpse of my avatar but that's it. It's like being travelling thru light speed or something.

SL used to work perfectly for me on my machine. In the 1 and ahlaf months I haven't logged in I have updated the driver on my graphics card but I don't see why that would make this happen? What has gone wrong???

This could definitely be your problem. Often, when drivers are upgraded new issues can occur, just like with the RC candidate of SL. Developers either have to hope it gets fixed, work around it, or just hope people use the older driver.

Computer specs, and driver version?

Everytime i have experienced this it has been due to the card overheating because of dust build up in the fan and heatsink assembly and / or the card is failing.

Id have the lid off, pull out the card and give the heatsink a thorough clean out with a soft brush or compressed air.

Try turning off vertex buffer objects in your SL preferences, especially if you're running ATI hardware. ATI cards are notorious for filling the screen with random triangles when VBO's are turned on.

Hi!

Thanks to everyone that replied. I turned off the Vertex Buffer thing and it seems to have solved the problem.

Another thing that i didn't mention is that some of the text appears garbled, but only a bit, i can live with that. But does anyone know why this is?

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!