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Chromal Brodsky
ExperimentalMetaphysicist
Join date: 24 Feb 2004
Posts: 243
11-23-2007 21:31
It looks as though I'm another in the number of 8800GT users experiencing trouble with WindLight's shader support. It flat out isn't functional.

Intel E6750 / Nvidia 680i / 4GB DDR2-800
Vista 64
EVGA 8800GT/512 / nforce drivers169.12

Looking forward to the fix!
White Guildenstern
Second Life Resident
Join date: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 3
11-24-2007 00:57
From: Astry Mirabeau
I just threw in a new 7600GT (running Win XP) and installed the latest drivers, as well as updated the chip drivers. I cannot get past the "detecting hardware" before getting the error:

"Second Life is unable to run because your video drivers are outdated or unsupported. Please make sure you have the latest drivers installed"

I have uninstalled, and reinstalled the vid card drivers, as well as tried several different versions of SL (even third party ones) ... all with the same result. I have even gone so far as to uninstall drivers, and used a driver cleaner, and started fresh, no luck.

I finally got ahold of a gentleman from the Live chat outworld, (and on the phone a few times with concierge) and he suggested that my driver date in dxdiag was outdated, (oct 4, 07) however Im not sure why that would matter since SecondLife uses OpenGL. I have also tried running another virtual world program, that also uses OpenGL, and it ran fine, which leads me to believe it is SL that is screwy, and not my card.

If anyone has had any similiar occurances, or helpful advice, please share! Ive spent a week trying to sort this one.


I was having the same problem. So far the solution that worked for me was to uninstall the video drivers (nVidia 163.75) and install the 169.09 (beta) drivers.

I have a 8600 GTS
Ilmira Yesheyev
Registered User
Join date: 8 Dec 2006
Posts: 40
8800GTS and 169.12 NVidia drivers
11-24-2007 09:33
Tried the 169.12 beta drivers from NVidia and all shader support is disabled on the 8800GTS in windlight and the normal viewer. Going back to 163.75 restored the shader support. If you are running fine with the 163.75 drivers, stay away from the newer ones.
Astry Mirabeau
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Join date: 1 Oct 2005
Posts: 163
11-26-2007 10:52
From: White Guildenstern
I was having the same problem. So far the solution that worked for me was to uninstall the video drivers (nVidia 163.75) and install the 169.09 (beta) drivers.

I have a 8600 GTS



Thank you for the tip :) However it didn't solve my problem. :/

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