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Originally Posted by Alexa Lioncourt  A couple of quick things:
1. Always check to see if your video drivers are updated. If you update and things get worse (and ya, it's happened) go back to the previous driver. |
Ah, it's resolved now, but eh.. for ATI users having issues with cards that should be able to run
SL acceptably...
While I normally believe the same thing about updating drivers, I have to disagree with this for
SL right now.
SL has been broken for ATI cards since, well, December. There is something horribly wrong with
SL while running with drivers that are more recent than catalyst 7.11. Turning on AA completely breaks retrieving values from the deph buffer(aka altcam is rendered completely useless. No joke.),
sl randomly locks up or crashes, etc. If you have these issues, it may be this driver problem. You however, don't need to downgrade your drivers to 7.11 to see if that's the issue..
You can easily put the ati 7.11 opengl dlls right in the secondlife folder and it'll use those instead of your current drivers.
atioglxx.7z atioglx2.7z
I just have atioglxx.dll in my secondlife folder which seems to work fine, and if it doesn't work for you, reversing the changes is as easy as deleting the atioglxx.dll/atioglx2.dll from the secondlife folder.... It's certainly easier than messing with driver installs.