Game Crashing all the time now

every since the last patch...my game crashes like every 10 mins...does anyone else have the same problem?...can someone plz help me??

any anwsers?...I know i cant be the only person with this problem...plz someone

I'm crashing a lot too and was before the last patch And it's not just crashing the game, but most often it locks up the whole computer and I have to do a hard reset.

I'm on a Dell XPS M170 laptop, 256MB NVIDIA GEForce 7800GTX PXI Express, Mobile Intel Pentium M Processor 780 (2.26GHz, 2MB Cache, 533MHz FSB), Windows XP, 2GB DDR2 dual channel SDRAM at 533MHz.

Connection is DSL 768 kbps.

Instances when I crash:
--in a high traffic area in open chat
--when building
--zooming way in on something with the camera
--when Yahoo messenger is on at the same time as SL
--when my fps shoots above 45+ (there are times I can see the fps going above 60)


However, crashing does not always happen when I'm doing these things or a combination of these things. I also notice the laptop is overheating only when I'm on SL and usually when my fps is very high, not in any other application or game.

In Preferences I have my draw distance set at 96. Shiny and ripple water are on, but nothing else. AGP is checkmarked. Cache is set at 1000. I have streaming audio and video on.

Are there other stats I should be listing? I send a crash report every time, but I have no idea what to say in a bug report, if this is even a bug???

Any advice would be appreciated.

The over heating of your laptop could be the issue. Secondlife uses a lot of processor power, and the processor will over heat if not properly ventilated.

I don't know what else could be the issue, as the laptops I had would crash if they overheated. Along with anything I was using at the time.

I'd tell you to play with your Nvidia profile and create one for second life but it doesn't seem to be a video issue.