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Faithless Babii
Iam F.A.B
Join date: 5 Feb 2007
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05-15-2008 09:48
hoping someone can help...i installed windows service pack 3 and it borked my driver settings (nvidia) so i took it to my loxal pc place who said that sometimes when you install a service pack it can rubbish your drivers, they sorted it out for me ..and i can now see things , before it was running on 4bit colour and wouldnt detect the graphics. Howeverrr...im still getting the message from SL as the viewer opens *this needs 32 tru bit colour to run, set it to this or run in full size and the viewer will detect and run it for you*.
Im runing in windows mode...so hmm how can i change the viewer settings if i cant opne the viewer? Ive checked my display settings and they are in 32 bit...
any ideas anyone?
thanks Fai x
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Faithless Babii
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05-15-2008 10:28
ok this is driving me nuts...ive checked and double checked iam running 32bit tru colour..and STILL the SL viewer wont open and says *i need to run 32 bit true colour to run this viewer*
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Novis Dyrssen
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05-15-2008 10:45
Have you tried reinstalling your drivers? Maybe there is a new driver out that is compatible with Service Pack 3 (which I personally won't touch with a ten-foot pole until... oh, in about a year maybe when it's stable *gg*).
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Faithless Babii
Iam F.A.B
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05-15-2008 10:58
yes i did update them a while back.and tried it again after i returned from the store (although it does tell me im runniing 32bittru colour and everything else is brilliant now)..and i guess youre right about the new service pack  Im not sure how to UN- install it either...or even if i can...im not very savvy
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Kidd Krasner
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05-15-2008 12:26
Exactly what steps are you taking to determine that you're running 32 bit TruColor (or TruColour).
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Faithless Babii
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05-15-2008 12:35
From: Kidd Krasner Exactly what steps are you taking to determine that you're running 32 bit TruColor (or TruColour). welllll when it all went pear shaped at lunchtime...when i checked my display settings on the control panel it would only let me see the 4 bit option ~gulp~ everything looked really weird, then i checked my graphics card out by clicking on it and using diagnostics. (its always run on 32bit tru colour and sl is fine on it UNTIL today) Sooooo when the store reinstalled the drivers (they said the service pack had deleted them,apparently this can happen) then i could have an option on the display setting, 4, 16 & 32..i chose 32..and voila! everything came back to normal...EXCEPT SL which is still telling me i have to run 32bit trucolour to run sl....then it exits itself. Ive reinstalled sl, and tried a few older releases...but no joy...is there another way i can determine it?
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Kidd Krasner
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05-15-2008 15:38
Are you saying that you clicked start, then clicked Control Panel, then clicked Display, then clicked the Setting tab, and on that tab, it said 32 in the colors drop down?
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