Ati - Vista - OpenGL drivers out

SLVista crashes for me after a short random amount of time A real crash, too - causes the computer to reboot. But it at least gets me into the game for a few minutes, where the real client doesn't draw the login screen before crashing.

The Omega drivers however do still support this card. Vista compat with omega, I dont know about however

Yes, they do work with Vista, you just won't be able to use Aero. Though, considering your gfx card, that might make little difference.

since i dont care at all for the aero stuff for now, will SL work fine if i install ati latest XP drivers on Vista for my x1300 card? If so can someone pls post me a link where to find XP only specific ati drivers?

thx in advance

I am using the SlVista version posted here. Works fine for a few minutes at a time but then I get crashes.

I have the 7.1 catalyst drivers installed for my Radeon X850 Platinum.

Now, we aren't saying that I could go back to the XP omega drivers and have the regular Sl client run are we?

I started with the last XP driver from ATI and had not luck. I am assuming that if you have Vista, the only way you can get sl to run at all is the SLVista version. Is this right?

Thank you. And thanks for all the work to get SLVista running. It is greatly appreciated.

This is just the sort of thing that will never be resolved. ATI's drivers seem to work fine for everything else, and LL says it's their fault.

SLVista got me back into the game, but I couldn't build, check profiles, or even delete prims. So I went out and got an Nvidia card. It's working fine.

Oh, and for the record. This version of SL has the time entirely wrong in it. Currently says 10:57 PST, when its 7:30 eastern US time zone, which would mean its about 4:30 in the pacific time zone.

Thanks a lot the SL Vista works fine for me now

Hi Lockhart,

can you point me to the source you're using for compiling VistaSL? As time goes on more and more software on my vista installation come back to life... You use VS2005, right? Will an Express Edition do?

Bye,
Amie

everyone that is having problems with Vista and ATI video cards please open a support ticket with ATI. https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

The more people that complain about it the better.

It is obviously a problem with ATI's drivers considering using an Nvidia card works fine. I had to switch my video card from dual ATI 1950's back to an older, slower single Nvidia card to get it to work.

2 1950 vid cards $600
1 Windows Vista Ultimate $400

Knowing you spent $1000 to "upgrade" only to find out your older hardware from another company worked better.....priceless.

See this page: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Get_source_and_compile

I typically use the latest FL branch, though soon, I am going to just release an older branch to see if it is more stable. There are instructions for Express Edition on that site.


Here is a build that uses the 1.13.3.2 branch. In other words, if this one doesn't work for you, then I don't know what to do. Later I will also release the new First Look client for Vista.

Stable version of VistaSL: http://www.noxforum.net/files/VistaSL Setup-1.13.3.2.exe

i saw a post on logon, that linden labs IS actually workin on a vista compatible build...

i 1x opened the console in XP, an i saw if they detect a ati card thay do some stuff for ati cards only... i guess it all works fine untill XP, afther that i guess the "hack" no longer works and crashes the Client...

Lockhart,

It seems that this newer client, compared to the older client didn't work for me at least. The older one you made (based on the First Look) worked, crashed once and a while but did work. This one, it crashes right after "Detecting Hardware"..never botheres to start up.


[Update]
Sorry, my stupidity. I never uninstalled the old one, so it was gettin confused.

This newest 'older' more stable version works perfectly. The clock is at the right time, and no more crashes from right clicking to send ims.

this newest version working for me aswell...no more crashes at precaching

thank u!

Man, I must have the worst luck - even the new "old" client crashes me at random times. I wish LL would fix their official client, unfortunately I don't have much hope for that, their recent statement sounds like they'll be able to start looking into that "in a few weeks". And I haven't even made it through the four tutorials!

Thanks for putting the effort into making SLVista - even though I have problems with it, it sure as heck works better than the official client.

Vista SL was working fine for me up until last night, when i got the new version. I got the new version because my old version crashed after about two minutes and decided to keep doing that. Now it dies after "Detecting Hardware" Just like the old vista used to do.

Update: It might be working now, I did a reinstal

Did you uninstall the old copy of VistaSL first? You can't reinstall over top of it.

amd 64 VISTA ati rADEON x1950 pro and the new drivers.
Dies on startup screen.

Blä

Yea, you were right. Ive installed over an old one before though, so that didn't occur to me at first. Thanks.

Bump, this thread was useful for people attempting to run SL in Vista.

Hi,

Seems like some great work being done here... I just got my new 'future proof' PC and installed Vista , biggest peice of anal controlling crap I've seen in my 20+ years of computing. Microsoft should have launched this under the title of 'HollyWood BigBrother'. Fortunately I partitioned the HD before letting Vista run its shackling binary all over the system, so XP will rein supreme for a long time yet.

I found out purely by chance, if you throw a dart at the Vista CD, it sticks in very well. I will probably use it to scrape the ice off my windscreen in the winter mornings.

lmao totally agree

It finaly dawned on my what sacrifice is made in the VistaSL binaries.

Bodies aren't shaded anymore; *O.o*

Darn and I was mapping a CEO's face on an avatar. Shading would have come in useful.

so basically we need to wait for ATI to release better drivers?

btw, thanks for VistaSL! works like a charm