Objects are rapidly changing textures!

Is anyone else experiencing this?

When I log in to 10.4.4 different objects will start rapidly cycling through textures. Sometimes it's the ground, sometimes it's someones face or clothes... sometime it's a piece of furniture or the floor. It's not every object, and it isn't the same object each time. I've cleared my cached, reinstlled SL, tossed out preferences and application support files, and still happening.

This is only on my desktop G5. I'm not seeing the problem with my PowerBook G4

See it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFsaSA-PM2E

Wow.. that's an odd one.

I take it you've tried deleting your cache, preference files, and redownloaded the program from www.secondlife.com/download/ ? Just thought I'd ask.

yes, yes and yes, but thanks for asking!

I am not an apple user, but I will tell you that I've seen it happen with video cards that can't figure out what texture to rez, so they start grabbing whatever you have in your texture file in your inventory. I don't know why, but it happens.

Updating the video card driver didn't help either, just needed a different card.

I'd agree with the "try a different video card" option. If you have a G5 tower under warranty, you might be able to get an apple service provider to swap cards based on this problem alone.

I work as an apple service technician, so that's why I say that.

If not a driver issue, I have seen a couple bad video cards do very similar things in 3D rendering.

That looks like the texture flash issue that's known to exist with the nVidia 5200 boards. I start seeing that after a while, but usually not until I've been logged into SL for a bit. Once it starts, it just keeps getting worse. I've had some luck switching between windowed and full screen mode, and back, which makes the problem go away for a little while, but it's a temporary fix. I wish a software fix comes along for this, since my video board is built into my iMac.

Do you still have this problem in Second Life 1.10.5.1 ? I have not seen it on my 5200 iMac G5 lately and want to close that bug badly

But I had that problem from the moment I started playing for the first time (Tried to edit appearance and BAM, all the panels flipped out). Happens on my work machine consistantly. Was funny...LiveHelp said they had never heard of such a thing...until further on further reflection that they had the same problem, with the similar Intel embedded graphics chip. Hey, great! SL and driver updates the last few months haven't fixed it...think it's just hardware.

How To Mitigate The Problem: Change clothes or edit appearance in a deserted sim. Find one for sale and go there. Usually helps, since there are fewer textures around. As far as it happening all the time...dunno. I get that too, but not as often as when I change clothes or edit appearance.

Hi Matt, are you by any chance using a dual-monitor setup? Running SL on the secondary monitor will cause Appearance mode to flip out.

No, nothing of the sort. Just an Intel 82845G-series card. I'd like to run dual monitors, though, but on my home machine.

We haven't any reports of texture-swapping on Intel cards (this thread is about a problem where textured objects and even Linden trees randomly cycle through many textures . Is that what you are experiencing? It sounds like you are experiencing corruption of Appearance mode. Please send me a snapshot inworld of the problem. Make sure you have 'Include UI in next snapshot' checked

I have an iMac G4 1.8Ghz, 1.5G ram with the GeForce FX 5200 card. I too have been experiencing the rapidly changing textures. I tried going from window mode to full screen and back, and that did temporarily stop it, but it didn't last long. I have dumped prefs, re-installed, and cleared cache. Any help would be appreciated.