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Intel 945GM card = crash new viewer
Duck Dinzeo
Registered User
Join date: 17 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
03-30-2007 14:51
After the upgrade my 3 month old laptop locks up badly. SL claims it needs opengl version 2.0......intel does not support it for this adapter, only 1.4 .

I'm out of ideas, can anyone help?
Chantal Bachman
c'est moi!
Join date: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 7
03-30-2007 16:29
im having the same issues- anyone make a patch yet?
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Phoenix Psaltery
Ninja Wizard
Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,599
03-30-2007 17:33
Here's your answer:

http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php

"Second Life may not run on graphics/video cards other than the ones listed above. Unfortunately, if your graphics card includes any of the following words, it's NOT compatible with Second Life:
  1. nVidia cards that report as a RIVA TNT or TNT2
  2. ATI cards that report as RAGE or RAGE PRO
  3. ATI cards that report as RADEON 320M, 340M, 345M, or similar model numbers
  4. Intel
  5. Intel Extreme
  6. 3DFX
  7. RIVA
  8. TNT
  9. SiS
  10. S3
  11. S3TC
  12. Savage
  13. Twister
  14. Rage
  15. Kyro
  16. MILENNIA
  17. most cards by MATROX"
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Duck Dinzeo
Registered User
Join date: 17 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
Thanks
03-31-2007 09:27
Bad news...VERY glad I saw the down side to SL before I spent more $$ with them.
Katier Reitveld
M2 News Manager
Join date: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 412
04-01-2007 10:54
From: Duck Dinzeo
Bad news...VERY glad I saw the down side to SL before I spent more $$ with them.

Not really a 'SL' problem more a gaming problem. The intel graphics chipsets are NOT gaming chipsets. SL, technologically is a game, as such you need gaming grade hardware to run it properly.
Tasman Perth
Geekette Extraordinaire
Join date: 7 Jun 2005
Posts: 225
04-01-2007 11:01
From: Phoenix Psaltery
Here's your answer:

http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php

"Second Life may not run on graphics/video cards other than the ones listed above. Unfortunately, if your graphics card includes any of the following words, it's NOT compatible with Second Life:

  2. nVidia cards that report as a RIVA TNT or TNT2
  3. ATI cards that report as RAGE or RAGE PRO
  4. ATI cards that report as RADEON 320M, 340M, 345M, or similar model numbers
  5. Intel
  6. Intel Extreme
  7. 3DFX
  8. RIVA
  9. TNT
  10. SiS
  11. S3
  12. S3TC
  13. Savage
  14. Twister
  15. Rage
  16. Kyro
  17. MILENNIA
  18. most cards by MATROX"

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Which is NOT to say that SL "WILL NOT RUN" on Intel graphics.. I've been running the SL client since about 1.6 on a Dell laptop with Intel 915 video and it works surprisingly well. Now, of course, I keep expecting one of the multitudes of LL tweaking/tinkering will break this, and frankly, I'm surprised that it hasn't happened already (knock_on_wood).. I was half-way expecting it to happen back in
the big 1.7->1.8 fiasco.. But then I'm an IT support person, and I keep my machines right up to date on everything, so that could be the reason I've been so lucky with the Intel video.. I'm gonna cry when it finally does stop working, since I spend a LOT of time in wifi-equiped coffeeshops and I'd die without my SL fix... sigh!!



The bottom line-- YMMV!!




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