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SL Wont run after Videocard upgrade
Cruise Swain
Virtual Life Stream
Join date: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 60
08-14-2007 04:12
Hi there,
Ive got a bit of a problem here..
I ran SL just fine (a little low on FPS) on a Asus 9550 ATI card, but decided to upgrade some stuff and got my hands on a XFX 7950 GT card which i just installed. When i start SL though, it gives me an error telling me that my video card/drivers are not supported. I upgraded my video card drivers (from the XFX site) and re-installed SL.. but it keeps giving me that error.

Anyone else have any ideas?
Randal Kline
huh?
Join date: 1 Jul 2007
Posts: 192
08-14-2007 04:41
shouldnt you be getting your driver updates here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

try uninstall sl, update the graphic card's driver, then reinstall sl.
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Cruise Swain
Virtual Life Stream
Join date: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 60
08-14-2007 04:54
Nevermind, i got it..
I had to uninstall the drivers, remove the hardware (through hardware devices) reboot, reinstall the downloaded drivers and reboot again. That fixed it :)

Thanx
AWM Mars
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Join date: 10 Apr 2004
Posts: 3,398
08-14-2007 05:40
You can set the SL client to 'don't be so anal about my system' setting. In preferences, uncheck 'check hardware on startup'....
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