Invisible Avatars After the Update

After the required viewer update last week, I noticed that other avatars are nearly invisible until I am within about a meter or two away from them and then the avatar bodies/clothes emerge.

This happens on any sim I've visited and all I see are a couple of black blots for shoes, a blot for hair and I can see the name tag clearly. All other items (scenery, builds for example) seem fine.

My PC specs (from the Help menu):

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Northwood (2659 MHz)
Memory: 511 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 1.4.0
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.18791 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.13_0000000000)
Packets Lost: 215/225793 (0.1%)

Thanks for advice,

June

This has been a problem for a while. Sometimes all I see is hair, and when I zoom in on it the avatar appears.

Thanks Anya, then you have my sympathies!

I'd love to find a resolution. This effect can be dangerous. I went to a public sandbox last night and rezzed a small build that I was working on. I hope the avatar that I crushed under my build will be okay!

i see similar weirdness with the RC viewer.

Things look fine.
I zoom in slowly on an avatar...
When I get about 1m away, the hair disappears. (No, I am not inside the head yet.)
When I get a little closer, it comes back.

Although I did not see my exact problem in the forums, I did try a few ideas from some of the threads about avatar appearance issues.

I updated Quicktime, and I updated my graphic card driver to 175.19. I was a little worried about the last because my card is so old, but the Nvidia site said that driver would go with the card.

So, (knock on plywood prim) my problem on the 1.20.17 viewer is resolved.

June

511mb of ram wont get you far.... try upgrading to 2gb..
and.......... OpenGL 1.4???
Update your drivers and try and get either drivers that support at least 2.1, or change your GC.