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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, stopped working with SL?

DeviantBone Xi
Deviously Deviated.
Join date: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 14
03-30-2007 21:42
I've been able to use Second Life using a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics before, but now, once I load up Second Life I get this error:

Second Life is unable to run because your video card drivers
are out of dare or unsupported. Please make sure you have
the latest video card drivers installed.
If you continue to reveive this message, contact customer service.

Im pretty sure I have the latest driver installed for it, i've used SL before on this card without any hassels, until recently

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
03-30-2007 21:52
Try this:

http://www.driverzone.com/

The scan is free but you have to subscribe to download the drivers. It's easy and I've found the drivers are good and most come with installers (meaning all you have to do is install them..........no complicated and scarey uninstalls before installing the new drivers). The scan will check your hardware for the latest drivers........you don't even have to know what hardware you have in your machine.
Distilled1 Rush
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Join date: 29 Jul 2006
Posts: 504
03-31-2007 14:45
one of my box's run this card and just fine... you need the latest drivers for it..
you can get them straight form NVidia as well as the ^ above.. or google Drivers for NVidia fx5200 :D
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DeviantBone Xi
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03-31-2007 19:03
Thanks guys!

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Rat Barzane
Registered User
Join date: 9 Mar 2007
Posts: 7
what the...
04-14-2007 06:27
Ok I also have the nvidia geforce fx 5200..... I downloaded the drivers for it 2 days ago, have been playing sl with it since then, except just now, I got that same message... How likely is it that they went out of date that fast? I guess i will try getting new drivers but it strikes me as extremely odd...
Draven Langset
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Join date: 26 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
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04-14-2007 09:57
i have the geforce fx 5500, and having problems with that too, i get rainbow prims, that flicker continuously. ive got the latest drivers, any ideas what it could be?
Nessa Yiyuan
Registered User
Join date: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 146
02-15-2008 16:45
I have the pny nvidia geforce fx5200, running a driver from '06 and can log into SL and walk around fine but textures take forever to load.

Every time i try to update the drivers to the latest version, i get the message when i start up SL that the video card drivers are out of date and SL shuts down. anyone have a clue as to what i can do.
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Alazarin Mondrian
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Join date: 4 Apr 2005
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02-16-2008 01:04
No idea. I have an nvidia 6200 and get exactly the same 'unsupported' message even when using the Omega or the Tweakforce Extreme drivers. Oddly I have no such problems with my 32mb nvidia GeForce2 which manages to limp long at around 3fps. I really need to find a way to be able to use my 6200 as sometimes the computer it's on is the only machine I have a available to connect to SL.
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Thili Playfair
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Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
02-16-2008 01:52
Everyone seem to run into this if you use nvidia on SL, gotten it myself using nvidia 6800,7900,8800.

Usually comes if you install a new vid card driver without uinstalling first, but SL is just the only program thats so picky about it, guess its opengl thing.