Visual interference in SL with nVidia 7500 LE, XP and Viewer 1.19.0

During and after (not sure about before) the recent big ISP crash, whenever I could get inworld I get green and magenta patterns repeated almost everywhere I go. It starts with the login screen with small flashes of colour until I login then, POW, The sky has enormous grids of pink and green which slowly disappear only to reappear somewhere else on the horizon. Then there are small (1/2 inch square) grids repeated all over the screen. Trees have these grids instead of branches, walls seem to have them repeated in the same way as the original textures. My avatar's hair and clothes have them. It goes on. Grass has stripes and patterns of sandy colour and towards the end, I was floating above a patch of land about forty metres square surrounding never ending ocean. LL reset my sim and the ones round it but I still get these patterns.

On LL advice I changed the viewer, to no effect, so I went back to my earlier version.

However, I have seen some tiny bits of these patterns in Explorer, too, on the buttons, which left me completely lost, as I thought it was an inworld problem. Now I don't know at all!

I've got a new Intel Dual core E6850 processor on an ASUS P5KC M/b. with 4 G RAM and my old nVidia 7500 LE Graphics card.

SL was all working beautifully until the recent crash now it looks as though I'm on acid.

I have been told to upgrade the graphics card, say, to an nVidia 8800 but have just read a thread blowing these out, so now I don't know. Can anybody help me, please?

Sorry about this. Just noticed that the colours do NOT show in explorer or Outlook express when I'm NOT logged into SL. Thought that might be significant. Thankyou.

Does your game world something like this?

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3763/slglitchly9.jpg

If so, I'm facing the exact problem too. Only that my ISP didn't crash, but I haven't logged into Second Life for months. Re-downloading and re-installing the client didn't work. So I'm guessing it's my crappy nVidia FX5500 graphics card. If that is the case, I guess I'm won't be able to enjoy SL until I get a new PC.

Nobody knows a way to fix this? I just read that even people with some high end graphic cards are also prone to this weird bug, so it doesn't necessarily mean I have to upgrade mine, right?

Anyone? No?

*sobs*

If any of my vid cards where doing that id remove it instantly, could be various things but id say its either

- power, not enough
- card is dying/faulty~dead ram
- overheating due to little power from psu to it

Course theres drivers issue but i dont think its in this case.

Also nudge it in case to see it fell out of slot, and test your system memory (memtest86) it can cause uglyness like that to but im not sure if its that issue here from screenshot.

Suggest doing a complete reinstall of windows with new drivers to test, if its still doing that you might want to get it replaced as these vid cards usually come with 3~5 years warranty.

6600,6800,7950,8800 320, 8800 640, doesnt have much issues with SL so its safe i ran these and none had anything close to this screenshot, but i do run with 500~600watt with high amps on them.

Did anyone fix this problem? I updated my Nvidia GEForce 6600 GT Drivers today and went from a beautiful experience in SL to multicolored pixaled buttons and maps. Never had a problem before.

Well, it looks like you guys can add me to the list. I tried logging into SL for the first time in several weeks last night, and again this morning, and I'm getting the *exact* same glitch that you guys have (as shown in Bendable's screenshot). Never had a problem until now.

As an experiment, I cranked the graphics all the way up to "high", just to see what would happen. The scenery began to turn "normal" again, but NOT my avatar, or the toolbar. Naturally, everything slowed to a crawl. Once I set it back to "low" again, it reverted to its strange, colored pixeled state.

I just recently updated the drivers on my graphics card (GeForce FX 5200, and yes, its old. I'm getting a new one soon), but I don't think it really has anything to do with it. This is the only game I'm having a problem with.

Here's to hoping that someone finds the answer.

For a 6600GT, try the older 169.21 drivers.

The 175 drivers don't play nice with some older cards.

I believe Thili Playfair offered some real help for this issue back on April 22.

I'm with her it doesn't look like a driver issue, though it is a possibility. I looks like a card going south to me. Probably not the quick and cheap fix you are looking for but I'm afraid I have no other ideas. And apparently others who have read this thread are out of ideas too.

I'm not throwing the "revert your drivers" suggestion in out of the blue. The nVidia 175 drivers messed with my card, reverting fixed it.

I think I mentioned that the drivers could be the problem........I just doubted that from what I saw in the posted pictures. I don't use the most recent driver for my video card either.......I actually use the same driver you do for my 8600GT. It's about two driver updates back from the most recent.

Next to clearing the cache, drivers are the next most easy thing to do to fix things in SL.........well, relatively easy if you do it correctly. Drivers are a big cause of many problems in SL........but they are not nearly all the causes. SL being what it is works most computers to their maximum. And by putting that much strain on a computer if you have a weak link somewhere in your hardware it will most likely show up when you use SL. Hardware failures don't always happen all of a sudden...............in fact all the failures I've had showed signs before they failedl. I've learned from experience to watch for things that happen unexpectedly and move to fix it right away. If it's not a driver or other software problem, it's time to look at hardware.

From the discription and pictures that have been posted here, it looks more serious than drivers. Yes, check for a better driver and get it installed correctly. If that does not fix it.......time to start looking at something else. Drivers are free........hardware is not. Sorry to be so doom and gloom.......but just telling it like I see it.

I've seen bad drivers do that, but as Thili said it can also be a sign of:

Overheating
Weak PS
Card dying

Switching driver version seems to be the simplest (and lowest cost) thing to try before one starts swapping around hardware or wiping OS.

And if someone's having trouble, definitely be sure to use one of the driver cleaning utilities between uninstalling the current drivers, and a different version. Remnants of mis-matched driver files can cause odd things.

I've used this one with success:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655

I was mostly addressing this post:



In this one case, updating the drivers seems to be the immediate cause.

Whether or not it could be drivers for others is sort of complete guesswork unless some of the other posters feel compelled to grace us with version numbers.


Some light reading and a small sample to prove I'm not exaggerating the 175 issue:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=377477

Oh, and if people are just installing the 175 "over the top" of an older driver, rather than the proper uninstall-reboot-install process, this can cause trouble as well.