Back in March, I decided to take the SL trial on my Windows 98 comp, despite the requirements since there was no major harm in it. After isolating the causes of crashs for my computer, I decided SL was still fun enough to play(and buy). Come around the next patch, the client does not even -allow- me to load since I am on Windows 98.
Am I out of luck until I get a system upgrade, or is there any workaround patches or whatnot out there somewhere?
Dyne Edo
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Dyne Edo
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06-13-2005 10:02
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06-13-2005 10:40
There's no fix. Second Life has never supported Windows 98. In the past, there were certain near-random combinations of hardware and software that worked. However, international keyboard support (a 1.6 feature) has no Windows 98/Windows ME equivalent, and as such Second Life will not load on any 98/ME configuration.
Unfortunately, the install base of computers that run 98, yet have hardware that meets our Minimum System Requirements, is very small, and we have to balance the time it would take to write extensive backwards compatibility for an operating system no longer supported by Microsoft, versus spending the same amount of time improving support and performance for all our users (or providing support for users with new hardware that doesn't currently work). As such, I don't know of any plans to extend 98/ME support (as we made the decision not to support them originally). |
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Dyne Edo
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Re: Recent patches -completely- locking out Windows 98 users.
06-13-2005 11:34
I was afraid of that. So with the new patches, none of the Fluke 98 systems that worked can function with the new features that are being released?
It looks like I'll need to see about making a huge upgrade soon in that case..bah. |
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09-11-2005 20:01
There's no fix. Second Life has never supported Windows 98. In the past, there were certain near-random combinations of hardware and software that worked. However, international keyboard support (a 1.6 feature) has no Windows 98/Windows ME equivalent, and as such Second Life will not load on any 98/ME configuration. Unfortunately, the install base of computers that run 98, yet have hardware that meets our Minimum System Requirements, is very small, and we have to balance the time it would take to write extensive backwards compatibility for an operating system no longer supported by Microsoft, versus spending the same amount of time improving support and performance for all our users (or providing support for users with new hardware that doesn't currently work). As such, I don't know of any plans to extend 98/ME support (as we made the decision not to support them originally). So when Vista hits, will you eventually drop support for XP, or will XP remain a definite keeper =P |
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Teeny Leviathan
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09-11-2005 20:13
So when Vista hits, will you eventually drop support for XP, or will XP remain a definite keeper =P Vista is a long way off. When it does come out, it will be some time until the user base is mostly Vista users. At the rate Vista is moving through development, I'd guess XP users will be shut out in at least 5 or 6 years. _____________________
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a lost user
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09-11-2005 20:15
Vista need High End Gamer card to get full use out it
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Blueman Steele
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09-11-2005 20:28
So when Vista hits, will you eventually drop support for XP, or will XP remain a definite keeper =P When Vista hits SL will only support Macintels  but seriously.. is vista really going to cripple OpenGL? |
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Jeffrey Gomez
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09-11-2005 22:07
I'm hoping there'll be a Linux client before Vista hits.
Mostly, because I'm not going to touch Vista with a ten-foot pole if they try to push the TCPA on it. _____________________
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a lost user
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09-12-2005 16:57
I'm keeping XP until it starts to die, then I'm off to Debian full-fledged and just hope I can emulate all I need w/ Wine and Cedega =[
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