Secondlife instantly crashes to desktop

I downloaded Secondlife a few hours ago and installed it. After it finishes detecting my hardware it quickly switches to a black screen with a resolution lower than native. It then almost instantly dumps me back to the desktop with a dialogue box telling me that Secondlife has crashed. I've searched around on the forums and on google for a few hours looking for a solution and I've tried a number of things that people have suggested to those having issues with Secondlife and ATI cards (rolled back my catalysts, updated my chipset drivers, disabled vpu recover etc). Nothing works, whatever I do, the same thing happens over and over again. My hardware specs etc are included in the Secondlife logs attached.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm about ready to give up, lucky it's a free trial.

Hi...

Not entirely certain, but... it seems your graphics cars is an ATI Mobility Fire GL T2, is that right? That would be a laptop card...

If it's not that, then I'm guessing it might be set up wrong or being detected wrongly.

Anyway, there seems to be an issue with ATI Mobility cards. There's a page on the website which lists some System Requirements including graphics. Yours isn't mentioned in either the 'yes it works', or the 'no it doesn't' section, but it might be a good place to start looking.

Maybe one of the others can help more.

Yeah, my card is definitely a FireGL T2, I know at least one other member is using a FireGL (which is the model down from my card) successfully with Secondlife, although they mention that there is frequent graphics corruption.

Then I'd check the drivers. Perhaps there are newer ATI drivers (or older maybe) that work properly... or maybe AGP drivers on the motherboard. Again, I'm guessing here and don't know.

Can you get in contact with this person who has the same system as you? If you can't get in world, maybe I can contact them for you and have them email or PM you... (forum private message).

Alternatively, try the support section of the web site. Someone might have an answer there.

Good luck, and I hope we can get it solved before you decide to quit on us

Yeah, I'll try contacting the guy to see if he did anything special to get it working. I've already tried different driver versions etc, no difference. Anyway, thanks for the help so far!