crash help

ok thanks to everyone will read this here.

ok i have buy a new comp with a nvidia Geforce 8500 gt and vista installed in it.
then when i play sl sometime my comp just completly freeze and i cant do anything for un freeze it i have to press and shut down the comp.......im not sure maybe its not about sl i dont kno at all...i kno my graphic card isnt the best soooo far,but its lot better then my last one i was with xp on my old comp.............maybe my graphic card driver need an update ?? i dont kno how thats work at all,all ive done is to insert the cd and instal the driver was on it and i have run sl....i cant be sure its sl or my comp cuz sl is the only game i play on it soooo....i hope someone will tell me what i can do or at least someone living the same experience lol.thanks

Note "Vista"
This may very well be your problem. I have yet to hear anything good about vista. Graphics incompatibility is high on it's list of problems.

If you can limp along till the Wednesday update (and the inevitable post-update trauma), it's just possible that the problems will disappear. This update promises the most extensive list of internal bugfixes in SL history (perhaps not surprising, considering the number of bugs... no, I won't go there). If it doesn't help, or if the situation is too urgent to wait, there's a helpful Technical Issues forum (/111/1.html) that might address your specific problems, if you can't find them in the jira (https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR).

I read good things about the latest nVidia Linux drivers, but don't follow Vista... though updated drivers tend to be worth a shot--I should think especially with a new operating system.

ohhh no i love vista ,humm to much protection but i love it .i was just asking myself if i needed to go download lastest driver about my graphic card directly to nvidia website cuz i dont kno how its work at all .....i tought they was always giving update to make ur card work better less bug and everything..looool i kno nothing about graphic card i must say...thanks for ur help and no thats not urgent its just few bugs a day since im not having close time during these bug im all right haha .thanks and have a good day

Hi,
I have a Vista system (laptop) with an ATI graphics card (v5200) which does exactly this. (I'm using the catalyst 7.6 drivers)

Start SL, within 10-20 minutes the game will freeze, and in fact the computer is frozen completely. No blue screen or reboot. Power button has to be held down to restart.

Another system with Vista x64 and an Nvidia 6600GT graphics card does NOT suffer this problem, although occasionally (once every ~2 hours of SL) the graphics driver will crash, taking SL with it, but the driver will automatically restart leaving other apps up and running just fine (no reboot needed).

I'm convinced the ATI+SL combination is not good. In fact I had an ATI-based home PC before switching to nvidia and had problems with drivers then.

i have Vista, and XP. not one problem from either, none different than everyone elses - noting that each upgrade uses more memory.

I am having the same problem WITHOUT VISTA. I have a Geforce Go 6600 (which came with my laptop and which I am extremely unhappy to say stopped being supported EVEN before I bought it. (( ) The last driver update they did for the graphics card was in 2005, a few months before I bought it.

I think the problem, if it is not Vista (and since I'm having the exact same problem with XP) is actually with Geforce. This is what I am guessing. Although, I am interested to see that someone above had the problem with ATI also. Maybe the issue is with SL? This does not happen with ANY other application. Nomatter how graphically intensive.

/me is beginning to despise NVIDIA for failing to support products and offering no solutions other than "buy a new computer."

My Toshiba Qosmio was top o the line 2 years ago. I guess to be in SL one needs to buy a laptop every 6 months?!?

This used to happen to me about every half hour or so. After today's update it happens (I kid you not) every 5 minutes. It's very very frustrating.

Anyone know a workaround for updating the Geforce graphics cards since NVIDIA no longer supports them? I may actually break down tomorrow and call them (charge of $35 USD) to get some "official answers." If so, I'll report back. If anyone can save me the $35 that'd be awesome.

I believe that a LOT of laptop users with NVidia cards, use these drivers are they are updated for notebooks far more regularly than official laptop drivers:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

See also their page here:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9243

Brash, thank you so much!! Now I know it isn't SL and it isn't NVIDIA it's the OEM (Toshiba in this case) behind the lack of support for the Geforce Go cards. My modified driver seems to be working just fine. I haven't frozen up since the installation.

Thank you very very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Cheers!

Very glad that fixed it for you! ^_^

hi Pease i really need help here and i was just reading the post on here and i am in tears now as i cant get on SL i just got new pc which has GForce 6800XT card in it when i run sl it comes up saying that i need to update drivers or my card is not suported, i look on the site to check again compatibilty and on it it says gforce 6600 or better im asuming i have better so that should be no problem, then i reupdated the drivers thinking ok the man who i got it from just put any driver on here but just to make sure i updated it. The same thing happens when i log on sl im just getting that the card is not supported or that i need to update the driver.

I am crying becasue on my old pc the gforce which i got is 6600 and works fine but i cant use it on my computer as my new pc hasnt got an agp slot and only got his new pci slots innit and its all over whelming cos i didnt even know they had new pci slots and a motherborad without agp, im crying here.... Please please please tell me that i can get on sl ahhhhhhhhh i would apreciate any help thank you ion advance.

Help a damsel in distress ty

Its ok i figured what i had to do , I had to unistall my graphic card drivers and reinstall it and now it works yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

just install the latest driver for your card... i have 8600gts and vista and everythings sweet...
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp