Error message: Windows Creation Error

I am using OpenSUSE 11.1 with Nvidia gforce 8400 video card. Installed the drivers for the card and SL will not open up. Please help.

I purchased this card to replace the onboard Video. SL was really lagging and didn't recognize my new video card that was installed. Downloaded and installed drivers and now I get the error message. After I installed the card. I had to manually configure X11 file to even get the GUI working, as it dropped me down to a command prompt.

Any Suggestions?

The issue has been resolved. Installed the Nvidia Driver from nvidia. No problems for now, except for the music lagging and no video display on the SL television.

I installed Ubuntu Jaunty today, and the SL viewer. The viewer worked after installing it. But later in the evening after some other installations and general playing around, it no longer works, I get the window creation error. As far as I can tell none of my video settings are different, I'm still running the most up to date Nvidia driver, etc. I've tried to undo everything I did since I had it working, but I'm fairly inexperienced with linux.

Run in a shell:
glxinfo |grep direct
you should get:
direct rendering: Yes


Try:
running secondlife with:
DISPLAY=:0
./secondlife

Also maybe
reinstall the nvidia driver

The exact same scenario here. I unpacked my new computer,correctly installed ubuntu, the nvidia driver and SL. Upon first start there are no problems whatsoever, i was able to run SL @ultra settings with no glitches.

Now,2 hours later it's sort of dead.I did reinstall the driver without any effect.
The first recommended command answers:
direct rendering: Yes
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access

This is really odd,since my system is brandnew and up to date.I'd be thankful for any hints as I keep trying.

I also have this problem, and am running Debian Squeeze w/ everything up to date. Everything was working fine until yesterday, and I do have direct rendering enabled on my system.

Even tho you didnt make any changes to the drivers and SL itself, theres still the possibility that a new kernel or a new xorg version got installed. Whenever that happens, you need to reinstall the nvidia driver too. ...just in case you didnt know ^^;

- Asriazh

If you have made changes to the anti-alias settings in hardware options delete your .secondlife folder from your home directory. Make any needed anti alias setting changes from the nvidia or ATI control panel directly,

Hope that helps

Be aware that this will also delete your chat and IM logs etc., if any. I think one can get the actual setting file(s) by:
find ~/.secondlife |grep "settings[[:alnum:]_]*\.xml"
(There might be several if you use different viewer versions.)

Or just move .secondlife to another name instead of deleting it, e.g.
mv ~/.secondlife ~/.secondlife_`date +%F`