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Bug? My shiny new driver is out of date? WTF
Cobalt Neutra
As seen on radio
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 48
05-09-2006 11:44
I just popped over to ATI's website, downloaded and installed the new driver update package for my video card: RADEON Catalyst 6.4

I go to login to preview, and up pops a big, official looking, grey SL warning window, which says:

"Your ATI RADEON graphics driver on this computer is out of date.

This is a piece of software that controls your graphics card.
Old drivers can cause 3D graphics programs like Second Life to run slowly or crash.

We strongly reccomend upgrading to the "Catalyst 3.8" driver, available for free download from ATI."


I'm having a WTF moment, here.
Cobalt Neutra
As seen on radio
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 48
05-09-2006 11:47
I got the same messgae, trying to login to the main grid, too.
Shirley Marquez
Ethical SLut
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 788
I had this one a while ago...
05-09-2006 13:23
The fix, that I got from SL technical support, is to use Driver Cleaner to COMPLETELY remove all the old ATI drivers (reverting back to a plain VGA display temporarily), and then install the new ones.