Second Life on Windows Vista
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Skye Wishbringer
Second Life Resident
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 13
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03-13-2007 07:52
Stability: About an 8 out of 10, tends to crash when attempting to do too much.
Hardware: Compaq Presario V6000Z Notebook
AMD Turion 64 2ghz
1GB DDR2 ram
nVidia GeForce Go 6150 128MB DDR2 (Shared)
80GB SATA 5400RPM HDD
Conexant Audio
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
First Look is more unstable, about a 6 out of 10, useable.
Framerates: About 17fps in the sky with standard client, about the same with First Look
Noticed Bugs: Other than the occasional unexplainable or unduplicable crash, talking will occasionally result in the player's comment being displayed in the Chat as if posted twice. Not observed during IM sessions. Graphically, no glitches noticed.
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Pegasus Alva
Registered User
Join date: 15 Jul 2006
Posts: 30
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03-13-2007 12:12
From: Skye Wishbringer Stability: About an 8 out of 10, tends to crash when attempting to do too much.
Hardware: Compaq Presario V6000Z Notebook
AMD Turion 64 2ghz
1GB DDR2 ram
nVidia GeForce Go 6150 128MB DDR2 (Shared)
80GB SATA 5400RPM HDD
Conexant Audio
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
First Look is more unstable, about a 6 out of 10, useable.
Framerates: About 17fps in the sky with standard client, about the same with First Look
Noticed Bugs: Other than the occasional unexplainable or unduplicable crash, talking will occasionally result in the player's comment being displayed in the Chat as if posted twice. Not observed during IM sessions. Graphically, no glitches noticed. I hate to say it and it is truly unfortunate but laptops will always have more stability issues with high load programs than desktops, that being said I'm impressed that it's working on that. Quick question though, for the info you gave about bugs, stability, and glitching using windowed or full screen and were you using standard interface or aero since that could make a big difference? |
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Skye Wishbringer
Second Life Resident
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 13
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03-17-2007 08:34
From: Pegasus Alva I hate to say it and it is truly unfortunate but laptops will always have more stability issues with high load programs than desktops, that being said I'm impressed that it's working on that. Quick question though, for the info you gave about bugs, stability, and glitching using windowed or full screen and were you using standard interface or aero since that could make a big difference? Was running Fullscreen, in 1024x768 and 800x600 in different situations, even tried under 1280x800 widescreen. Ran under Standard interface and under Aero, actually seems to run a bit better under standard interface. I have also noticed, that with the SL Original Client, when going into full screen mode, it acts like the player is constantly slowly turning to the left, on my machine. Doesn't happen under First Look, though. |
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FireFox Bancroft
Registered User
Join date: 30 Jul 2004
Posts: 134
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03-20-2007 17:39
From: Skye Wishbringer
nVidia GeForce Go 6150 128MB DDR2 (Shared)
There's the reason you can run SL on Vista, for us ATi users; unfortunately we have to wait for a D3D version of SL before we'll be able to run it on Vista. Otherwise it just crashes without even loading the login screen. |
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Paulo Dielli
Symfurny Furniture
Join date: 19 Jan 2007
Posts: 780
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03-20-2007 20:54
Stability: 10 out of 10.
I never ever crash, not even with SL, IE7, Photoshop, Illustrator, Poser all open at the same time. I even think everything runs a tad smoother with the new Nvidia driver that seems to support OpenGL better.
Of course there are the usual probs due to lag and LL-updates. But nothing related to my pc-performance with Vista.
Specs: Vista, Intel Core2 4300 @ 1.80 GHz, 2 Gb Ram, Geforce 7600 GT.
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Cherika Soothsayer
Registered User
Join date: 23 Oct 2005
Posts: 22
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acer
03-24-2007 22:57
acer aspier 9410
intel pentium dual-core T2060
17" wxga+acer crystal bright lcd
120g hdd
1024 ddr2
intel graphics media accelerator 950
802.11 wireless lan
windows vista preium
i just got this lap top this past week and it runs like a dream i have had no problems with it in sl eq photoshop poser everything runs great
just my 2 cents
smiles Cheri
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Farallon Greyskin
Cranky Seal
Join date: 22 Jan 2006
Posts: 491
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03-25-2007 20:45
From: I have also noticed, that with the SL Original Client, when going into full screen mode, it acts like the player is constantly slowly turning to the left, on my machine. Doesn't happen under First Look, though.[/QUOTE THat is actually an old bug and it does happen under the normal client and on XP. The easiest way to trigger it is to use the UI scaling and set it to 0.80 or 0.83 or something then move your camera with the mouse, it will quite often keep moving. You can somtiems fix it by widening or shrinking the window size buyt a pixel (Well not possible in full screen). So it's slightly random based on a few parameters it looks like. I've bug reported it frequently, Nice to see it still there  |
