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Angstrom Kivioq
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Join date: 24 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
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07-30-2007 10:06
I have not too long ago purchased a new Gateway laptop that came with windows Vista, and although Vista users are experiencing problems I am curious if my ATI Radeon X1150 causes my crashes by perhaps falling below the minimum specs for SL. As I start SL the welcome page does not even load, it is simply a black window that stays for a few seconds before closing and being replaced by a crash report.
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Avacea Fasching
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Join date: 23 Dec 2005
Posts: 481
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07-30-2007 10:55
First Make sure you have the most current drivers from ATI.
Did it ever run correctly on your laptop?
If it did, it should still work.
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Amity Slade
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Join date: 14 Feb 2007
Posts: 2,183
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07-30-2007 11:15
If you didn't buy your video card tomorrow, it is out of date.
But that doesn't necessarily address your problem.
I have logged on to Second Life using a fairly new ATI and a fairly old nVidea. The nVidea is slow but stable. The ATI is fast but only lasts about a half hour before it starts bugging out, and is a frequent crasher. For some reason, ATI cards and Second Life don't play together well.
From what I have been able to determine, Second Life has bugs related to the texture cache that cause bad memory leaks. The problem isn't all with Second Life, though, I get crashes faster if I have been doing something that uses the graphics card before I log in to Second Life. I have to clear the Second Life cache AND reboot the computer to get reasonable performance for any period of time. I think both Second Life and the ATI drivers handle memory poorly, and when the two come together, they both cease functioning together all the faster. And I do religiously check the ATI site for new drivers.
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