Before Reformat, Second Life WindLight worked fine. I didn't adjust anything except the settings inside WindLight itself. I just installed it, and ran it. I've had SL installed on this laptop for the past 4 months. I was aware, when I installed it on this laptop, that the gfx card on here was not compatible. It worked fine regardless.
I reformatted last night and came to the surprise today that WindLight didn't want to start up, error being that my Gfx card was not supported. Umm, why now and not before? I tried setting come compability settings to it, such as: Disable visual themes, Disable desktop composition, and Run in Windows XP SP2 mode.
Windows Vista
Mobility Radeon X300
WindLight 1.18.5.9637
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Poptart Skall
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Join date: 10 Dec 2007
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12-16-2007 01:51
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Poptart Skall
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Update = Crash
12-16-2007 12:18
Okay, I updated the driver software Via Driver Properties.
Now SecondLife get's past the error and tries to start up, then crashes immediately. |
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AWM Mars
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Join date: 10 Apr 2004
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12-19-2007 07:38
So you are not only running SL on an unsupported GC, but the Windlight client?
When you reformatted, there is a good chance that you deleted some shared DLL's from programmes you may have not reinstalled. You can also uncheck the 'check hardware on next startup' as that sometimes lets you in with unsupported GC's, which is checked by default, when you reinstalled the new client. In the new Graphics tab, click the Hardware button and make sure nothing in that window is checked. Turn the graphics slider to LOW. _____________________
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Poptart Skall
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12-20-2007 13:26
For one, it IS a supported graphics card.
Secondly, Second Life [None of the three clients] even open, period. There is no way for me to get to any of the graphics tabs if SL doesn't even open. It flashes the main window (the login window) and that's it. |
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Poptart Skall
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12-23-2007 11:18
Can someone please help me.. it is very important that I get on Second Life. I am missing tons of work and I'm sure my friends are worried.
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Kevin Susenko
Voice Mentor
Join date: 11 Jul 2006
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12-23-2007 15:53
Are you using the same version of Windlight as you did before? The new login screen is causing Windlight and the new RC to crash on some computers.
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Farallon Greyskin
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Join date: 22 Jan 2006
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12-23-2007 15:56
Can someone please help me.. it is very important that I get on Second Life. I am missing tons of work and I'm sure my friends are worried. Longshot, try Nicholaz viewer here: http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/ Now are you sure that you installed the /exact/ same video drivers you had when SL was running before as well? video driver updates can break SL usage as easily as fix it. |
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Poptart Skall
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12-24-2007 10:29
To tell you the truth, I can't recall installing any video drivers in the session before i reformatted. I guess whatever drivers Vista installed is what I had. In that case, I should have had the same drivers as before.
As for the version of Windlight.. well I had the latest version there was before i reformatted.. so unless there was an update in the 24 hours I didn't have it installed, I should have had the same version.. *Downloading Nicholaz version..* *Nope, same result.* And Kevin, what about the default viewer's login screen? I installed all three viewers [default, rc, windlight] and they all have the same outcome. |
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Poptart Skall
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12-26-2007 13:44
i got it working.
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Osprey Therian
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12-26-2007 17:56
What did you do? It might be useful for someone in a similar situation if you document your fix.
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Poptart Skall
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12-27-2007 00:23
Vista suddenly came up with a new driver for my gfx card.
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