Vista conspiracy?

My understanding is that a lot of new people are discovering SL, and most of them are discovering that they don't have enough computer. But they can't buy a new computer, because new computers run Vista, and Vista can't run SL.

Suppose some brain trust at Microsoft noticed that this upstart SL thing could be the wave of the future. And they're way behind on that type of app. So, how to they buy time to catch up?

How about they realease a new operating system that is incompatable with the upstart, and choke the life out of it by preventing users of new computers from accessing the upstart.

I have Vista and have no problems running SL.

Ya sure its all a conspiracy.

/me looks for my tinfoil hat.

BTW works fine on Vista for me.

Who says Vista can't run SL?
I am running SL just fine, there was one "optional" client that made me crash a lot but I am not sure if it was because of Vista...

If you can't find your hat, I've got extras

SL also works fine on Vista for me, though I rarely use Vista unless it's on a work machine

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I just purchased a new PC... and of course, thinking I needed to up the RAM and all that good stuff, but duh... I didnt check to see if SL was compatible with Vista. Well this is the only program I am really having problems with. Can we compare PC specs to trouble shoot. Gimme a hint, how do you know when its vista and when it isnt? Any assist would be great, as this is the only game I hadnt played for months and was itching to get back to! HELPPPPP. giggles. I wanna play too.

CPU: Intel Pentium Pro (Unknown model) (2133 MHz)
Memory: 2046 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 GTX/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.1.1
LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.10_0000000000)

ive ran SL on vista 32 bit no problem, from what i understand its the 64 bit version that may give you trouble

that machine was
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ (2.25 ghz) barton
1024mb pc 3200 ddr ram
Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS (512 mb) AGP 8x

Hi,

I also have Vista on my pc and SL works fine. I sometimes crash but that's because of SL I think.

My machine:

Dell Dimension 9200 Viiv 2 Duo Core 2.4 GHz
Windows Vista Ultilmate 32bit
4096Mb RAM Dual channel DDR2 (4x 1024)
640GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS 256MB

Greetz,

Camden
xxx

It's threads like this that are a waste of bits

People actually voted on this!
There is no end to this crap

Put me in the Vista runs great crew.

You desperately need this product:

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

This is too funny.

Setting aside for the moment the fact that many of us are running SL on Vista with no problems at all...

Even if Microsoft was the True Source of All Evil (tm), it would take more than a measly few million "users" (most of those duplicate accounts) to even make their radar. Given that such a low-level "tweak" is unlikely to happen late in the development cycle when the Windows folks are working 80-hour weeks just trying to get the thing out the door before the stock price takes another nosedive, and given that SL was barely noticed by anybody until less than a year ago, I think it's safe to say that it didn't happen.

Funny thing about operating systems - people tend not to buy them if their favorite apps and games won't run on them.

Microsoft just about completely crippled all bluetooth support in vista.

I doubt SL is high on their agenda of stuff to make useless

I have almost exactly same computer.... if crash you're getting is same as me it's the nvidia drivers not vista that's the problem....

/me too

now if that wasn't an excuse for dismissing any and all support requests that have nothing to do with Vista but because ONE of my computers run it...

:/

Oh, is it so?

My crash is the following: I'm walking around in SL and suddenly the viewer stops. Just closes down without reason...

And what can we do about it? Is there an update for the Nvidia driver available?

For the record, I was playing one day for 11 hours and only had 1 crash like this... I don't have it all the time.

Greetz,

Camden
xxx

I sometimes get a little pop-up telling me there was a problem with the graphics card but that it has recovered.. but not always. Seems to happen pretty randomly.

Apparently there are issues with other graphics intensive games with nvidia/vista and a fix is being worked on... the latest driver (4th May?) doesn't help... just keep checking the driver download page at nvidia.com for new releases.

Yeah, I think Microsoft spent millions of dollars and spent years working on an OS that wouldnt work for a few users of SL. I expect Bill Gates spent a lot of sleepless nights plotting ways to annoy a small percentage of the SL community by making Vista uncompatable with SL on a few machines so that he could release his own version of SL sometime in the future.

The guy is a genius!

I get the same pop-up sometimes too and the SL-viewer turns black and doesn't do anything anymore. It indeed happens randomly and not all the time if i'm in SL.

I'll keep checking the Nvidia driver download page and let u know if i find something to help...

Greetz,

Camden

Microsoft is deliberately harming Open GL, not Second Life. That Second Life is affected by Vista changes is not deliberate, but if someone tells Microsoft they'll probably pause, think for a second and say "actually, that works to our advantage!"

If MS ever did create a platform to rival SL you can gaurentee that it will have more bugs and be more expensive as thats the way they roll.

Vista 64-bit runs SL just fine; I am happy to report. ;>

lol, SL can certainly run with Vista,, just double check your system configation again