SL Incompatible with NVidia 8800 Ultra?

Hi - I have a quad core machine with an NVidia 8800 Ultra video card. I was running SL just fine when I had my old NVidia 6600 card, but now with the 8800 I'm getting the error message "Second Life is unable to run because your video card drivers are out of date or unsupported. Please make sure you have the latest video card drivers installed."

I have the most current Forceware drivers released a week ago from NVidia, version 163.69.

Is anyone having a similar issue or can anyone offer some advice?

Thanks!

-Dreamy Intel

Ugh, yeah I had problems with my 8800GTX when if first came out

But that was because the 8800 did not exist at all in the "gpu_table.txt" file that came with SL. The 8800 Ultra SHOULD fall under the 8800gts/gtx category but... maybe it's returning a different string

The idiotic think is that in cases like this SL should at least run in lowest compatibility mode and then allow you to up the features by hand. I't ALWYAS a STUPID idea to think you are smarter than you are and refuse to let a user run a program based on what you THINK he is running for hardware. A simple warning (even if wrong ilike in this case) but running anyway is always the best thing to do.

There seems to be a command line parameter to disable the hardware probe. I have not tested it but it is in the soruce. Try adding "-noprobe" to the shortcut and try running it that way...

I just tried adding '-noprobe' to the target command line and it seemed to bring up the error message much faster (it skipped the 'Detecing Hardware' stage), but alas, it still is bringing up the error message.

If you hadn't already had it running fine with he older card I'd say make sure you have disabled the onboard video chip in the bios if you have one, even though... that shouldn't be a problem anyway, at this point.. who knows :/

I've seen this error message for two reasons:

1. I installed a new driver without uninstalling the old one first. This can be a right PAIN to fix to LL's satisfaction. I engaged in quite a festival of uninstalling and registry cleaning before getting SL happy.

2. This one is really odd. I had accidently set an OpenGL parameter in my driver wrong! depth-buffer-bit-depth was set to 16, and SL requires 24.

Good luck!

OH! That reminds me! I got the error once when I tried setting Extension Limit to On in my video settings. Make sure that is off and make sure Conformant Texture Clamp is set to "Use OpenGL Specification"

Maybe an OpenGL setting in your video cards advanced 3d settings that's doing it...

I have just installed the new NVIDIA driver.
Since this append, i can no more start second life.

It seems sencondlife not to be campatible with this driver.
I have made some tests with different paramaters for driver (performances, quality and so on) without any success

Any idea ?

Hmm I never had a problem with my 8800GTS, worked first go 6 months ago, and I updated the driver last week
Only issue I ever see is the black avatar textures on the second monitor, though I suspect my old 7800 with 512Mb ran dual clients better than this one with only 360Mb

don`t use the 163.69. i had problems myself. install 163.44_forceware_winxp_32bit_international_beta instead ( this set is international drivers ) but try the non international ones and you be all set.

Usagi