Crash after crash

I am pretty pissed off now. At first the new viewer seemed okay. But wtf happened these past few 3 or 4 days?! I crash after 5 or 10 minutes. And then again after 5 or 10 minutes. And then again. And again and again. Most of the times I don't even move my mouse and I'm only typing in IM, but I still crash. Three to fife times a night.

I've never had so much crashing before....

Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz (2 CPUs), ~900MHz, 2046MB RAM, DirectX 10, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT.

You think Linden Labs cares?

I mean really?

Second Life is the crashiest, least stable computer software product IN HISTORY. BAR NONE.

Here's a tip for Lindens: DO NOT RELEASE SOFTWARE WITH BUGS IN IT. Beta test your software!

Can you imagine if, say, Photoshop CS3, or Call of Duty 4, or Pro Tools, or any of these types of programs crashed at all? I can't imagine it, because they don't crash.

Meanwhile I am going to write a letter to Apple about Second Life, because when it crashes on my Mac, I get a dialog box that reads, "The application Second Life has quit unexpectedly." This is a lie. It is not unexpected at all. It should say, "The application Second Life has randomly quit for no apparent reason, which is to be expected."

-=GE=-

Yesterday I tried everything to solve the crashing. I tried different SL viewers and updated my graphics Nvidia driver with several driver versions. The latest recommended driver for my 7600GT is:

ForceWare Release 169
Version: 169.25 WHQL
Release Date: December 20, 2007

So I tried that, but the crashing remained the same and the only difference was that SL became more 'sluggy' (is that the right word?). I mean: not so smooth anymore when using the camera. So I went back to my current installed driver 163.69 and the regular crashing, at least a few times per hour.

I know I can't ask here if someone has a solution, because hardware problems can be so complicated. But maybe someone can tell if I should keep on looking to improve my hardware configuration, or if it's just a bad SL viewer. The crazy thing is that the RC before the latest RC worked perfectly for me. But then I was forced to upgrade and everything went to hell again...

Well try nothing. i have the best computer and i have many problems too.
The problems come from Lindens Lab.
What can you do ?
Waiting for a good version, or trying to play to Sims or World or Warcarft lol

Paulo, I had the same problem.

The newest release of the Nicholaz viewer has been quite stable for me and it works with Windlight (SL viewer 1.19.1.4).

Omg!!! I Am Soooo Tired Of Crashing. I Am Hating The Way Sl Is Treating Me, I Am Getting On Sl And I Cant Stay But Maybe 10 Minutes At The Most If I'm Lucky....what Do I Do, This Lates Update Is The Worst I Have Seen Since I Signed Up Back In December Of 06......this Shyt Suxxxxxxx.

This latest version keeps rebooting my computer as soon as I move the mouse. I can not believe I just became a paying resident and bought land. ONE week ago everything ran smoothly, barely any lag, everything enabled....

Now I start with graphics set to LOW, unable to move, and unable to do ANYTHING. Great job, Linden Labs. Will you refund

a) my yearly subscription fee

and

b) the price I paid for land?

Of course you won't. May I ask you please to FIX your product so your customers can USE what they paid for?

Thank you!

wonder why people are crashing all of the time, only time I crash is when I hit a border and the vpn/ftp dosnt shoot me to the next sim (lagged out) 2.08ghz with 512mb ddr1 ~333mhz and a 64mb nvidia mx 4000 video card. and running the 1.19.0.5 client. hm maybe rollback your video drivers or start rolling backup dates to windows until it corrects its self? or heck even a format and reinstall of windows. so idea just shooting things into the wind here.

Well, I see a few people crashing a lot. No where near as many as just reading the forums would lead you to believe though. Take this thread.........over a month old with 8 posts (9 if I get in before someone else) and 6 are saying then have the same problem. In the first place, that sort of says crashing is not a huge problem.......just the numbers over a month. But, read whet the posters are really saying........they are crashing, but they discribe a slightly different crash.

Off the top of my head (I'm no computer geek, but I do have problem solving skills) I can think of several different types of crashes. A program/software crash where the program (SL in this case) simply quits responding..........I won't go into the many ways it can be diplayed but suddenly finding yourself at you desktop is typical. There's the operating system crash where you get a system error and everything shuts down. And (the most severe) a complete computer lockup where you need to shut off the power to get your computer back.........rebooting is a form of this. These are completely different crashes indicating completely different problems. I see three different crashes reported so far in this thread. If the posters are accurately discribing what is happening then they are experiencing different problems.

The problem with lumping "crashes" into a single pile is it makes it difficult to analyze and solve. And I see most people way to anxious to point a finger at the client for all their problems........even the rebooting of the computer (not likely a software issue unless it malicious code........eg virus).

And of course there is always the ones with "the greatest and best computer ever" and they refuse to look at their computer. To fix any crashing problem you need to look at the problem with an open mind..........not focused on what you think is the problem. What that causes is frustrations and unhappiness. And it never (or seldom) gets anything done to correct the situation.

To the OP..........check your drivers, your internet connection, check background programs that might be running unnecessarily. To the person that the computer continually reboots.......run your anti virus, anti malware programs. Check to make sure your fans are working. Open your case and blow out the dust. Those are the simple things to do...........continually rebooting is a bad bad sign. Something is very wrong inside your computer. Heat is a common cause.............but impending hardware failure is also a very common cause too.