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Gustavus Bing
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Join date: 2 Jul 2007
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07-02-2007 12:46
Hi! I've been unable to start Second Life because of my video drivers. I just downloaded and installed Catalyst 7.6 for my Radeon Xpress 1150 (on my Vista AMD 64) and still I get the error about my drivers. I can't seem to figure out what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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Rhyph Somme
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07-03-2007 03:39
Were you able to run it with the previous version of the drivers or whatever you had installed previously? If so, just do a rolback or manually download and install the previous version drivers which are available from ATI's site.
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Gustavus Bing
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07-03-2007 08:47
No, I haven't been able to login/start at all. I had an old computer with an old video card, so this is new laptop. I want to join in the fun, but the darn thing won't let me.
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Rhyph Somme
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07-03-2007 09:09
Interesting.... Post some specs on it?
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Gustavus Bing
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07-03-2007 10:00
Okay:
Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD Turion 64 1.6 (GHz) ATI Radion Xpress 1150 (Catalyst 7.6) 1918 MB RAM Windows Vista Home Premium Based on all that, you'd think it would work! Anything come to mind? (Thanks for asking!) |
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Rhyph Somme
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07-03-2007 10:14
It should be able to handle it. Vista + ATI however is typically not a huge success, but it seams to be working better as of late. Try running with an different viewer. I'd recommend:
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/ Grab his latest update, 17g2 and slap it in there and see if it works. _____________________
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Gustavus Bing
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07-03-2007 10:25
I still get the video driver out-of-date error. Darn.
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Rhyph Somme
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07-03-2007 10:42
I had read elsewhere here that 7.6 may have been causing this problem. If you are adventurous, you can try to fall back to 7.5 and see if that helps, but I do recall reading now about a very similiar case where that was the end result to correct the issue.
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Gustavus Bing
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07-03-2007 11:38
It works!
Of course, it turns out it was all my fault. I, er, had downloaded the 64-bit version of 7.6. When I figured that out, I downloaded and installed the 32-bit, and it worked. I'm such a dolt. Nevertheless, if you hadn't asked those questions, I never would have figured it out. So: Thanks! --Gus |
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Rhyph Somme
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07-03-2007 12:07
YAY!
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