Can someone help me in PLAIN ENGLISH

I'm getting all types of flashing going on in-world, flashing textures, my body turning different colors, others changing colors, walls flikcering all kids of gibberish and textrues. Can someone explain to me what it going on, if you're having a similar problem, and what I can do about it. I'm not sure I"ve seen my exact problem in here but I may be asking something already brought up. If so, I apologize, but I would like it laid out to me in plain lay-language.

Here's some of my computer profile, it it helps:

10.4.8
1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 (iMac)
1.25 GB DDR SDRAM
GeForce FX 5200 graphics card

Is there anything I can do to stop everything from dancing textures!!

My first guess would be hardware, not software.
does it happen with any other programs?
make sure your monitor cable is tightly connected.

I'm on a roughly equivalent graphics card in a G5 dual tower box, and I get occasional graphics flashes - not whole textures, but like a bad VHS tape kind of thing. From my research, I think this could be a problem with the firmware of your graphics card; a lot of aftermarket cards for Macs are reflashed PC cards, and they miss out on one of the Apple software updates that delviers kosher cards, a real firkmware update. It's possible you've got a reflashed card. Do you have any others you can try?

(by the way, your machine description confuses me - I thought one couldn't upgrade the graphics in any iMac? Sure you don't have a G4 or G5 tower?)

I have dual core Power Mac G5 2 mgz, 1 gig of ram and I get flashing textures to. It is slower than my new dual core centrino laptop from Gateway. Though the G5 would be faster.

Of course now, with the latest version as of Nov 2006, my G5 won't even run SL anymore. Linden Lab seems to not have any clues to the problem.

ugggghhhhhh!!!!

I have been reading for days on how to get my mac g5 to stop crashing after the last update. I tried everything including clearing my cache but today I fould a fix that worked. Read below.

It is indeed a bug in the current client-version, and it crashed all Macs set to 32768 colors instead of 16,7 millions. That simple.

Hope this works for others to.

Duzzy

Since my iMac is the all-inclusive monitor type, I don't have a cable to tighten like an external monitor has. I suppose I can take the back off and see if any cords are loose. I'm not positive the graphics cards in these iMacs can be replaced, though from the "Recommended Requirements" SL mentions, my card is a bit lower of a model needed to run SL well.

I do work on a lot of photos but I've never had any type of flashing on my screen. This has only happened with SL. It does not happen either on the Windows PC I have at work. God knows I'd really rather not switch to Windows just to play SL, but looking at lovely avitars with black skin or flashing all kinds of textures everywhere is definitely uninviting...

Thanks again, and please keep sending some tips!

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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a FX5200 a lower performance graphics card then a FX 5600?
As soon as I saw your symptoms, I immediately thought "graphics card"


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Mac Minimum System Recommendations:
Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.3 or better
Computer Processor: 1.25 GHz G4 or better
Computer Memory: 768MB or better
Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better
OR ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better
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Yes. Graphics Card. Could be Drivers.
(I'm sorry. I misunderstood the PowerMac comment and thought it was a tower with external monitor. My Bad.) Shin, do NOT open your iMac. That seems unlikely to be the problem. It looks like you keep your Mac up to date with OS x., but

1. I'd make sure of latest video drivers from Apple, using software update.
2. Then, I"d try trashing the video prefs, (named something like com.apple.'vid'.plist, or '.monitor'.plist)
3. and trashing the system cache files. (use the free program Onyx, or similar to do this.)

-->Restart
4. make sure that colors are set to Millions and
5. then try Sl again.

And I just found THIS:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h218/Thilis/infoo.jpg
Try these things! and report back if it works!

AND, see this thread for others struggling with the same issue:
/111/81/128957/1.html

I have an iMac G4 at home, that has no issues, but my iMac G5 at the office (also GeForce FX 5200 chipset) does what you are describing with SL. I'm pretty sure that 1) The graphics chipset (there is no card, its on the MLB) is the cause and 2) nothing you can do about it on your end. Except upgrade to a newer Mac with a more powerful graphics chipset or card.

I'd be happy to be wrong though. But notice that this chipset does not meet the system recommendations:

Video/Graphics Card**:
nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better
OR ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better

http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php

From what ShinnyoEn is describing, it's something I've been calling "texture thrash"; objects in world (clothes, trees, the ground) shifting their textures every 1-3 seconds. The texture it takes on is often recognizable from somewhere else; clearing cache (and relogging) clears it; so did going to full screen mode and back, tho that makes the latest vers crash bigtime on me.

I think PC users see it, judging from past discussion; what I'd like is a quick way to clear it, since fullscreen doesn't do it now.

Love & animated hugz,
Jilly