Difference between revisions of "How to identify your graphics card"
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With Second Life open, up top under Help, click "About Second Life" All your system stats are listed here. | With Second Life open, up top under Help, click "About Second Life" All your system stats are listed here. | ||
On any version of the SL Client, the main things to look out for are: | |||
( | Graphics Card Manufacturer: | ||
Graphics Card: | |||
OpenGL Version: (the higher the better, generally) | |||
Visit the video card manufacturers website and compare this information with what drivers are currently available. | |||
GENERALLY, its best to update to the current drivers. On occasion Second Life runs better on a less current version. | GENERALLY, its best to update to the current drivers. On occasion Second Life runs better on a less current version. | ||
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Cards with known issues: | Cards with known issues: | ||
* ATI 9800 | * ATI 9800 (bugs in the final design of this chip on this variant of the ATI Radeon cause problems with Ripple Water / Avatar Vertex Program shaders - Client will force-disable these options if cards built around this chipset are detected) | ||
* radeon x300 x86/sse2 | * radeon x300 x86/sse2 | ||
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* ATI 7500 | * ATI 7500 | ||
* SIS 661FX (onboard chipset) | * SIS 661FX (onboard chipset) | ||
* SIS VGA (any variant to date - these are onboard accelerators that do not implement the Hardware TnL required to run SL properly) | |||
* Intel Extreme Graphics Chipset | * Intel Extreme Graphics Chipset | ||
[[Category:Text from In-world Notecards|Graphics Card]] | [[Category:Text from In-world Notecards|Graphics Card]] | ||
[[Category:Articles in need of expansion|Graphics Card]] | [[Category:Articles in need of expansion|Graphics Card]] | ||
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With Second Life open, up top under Help, click "About Second Life" All your system stats are listed here.
On any version of the SL Client, the main things to look out for are:
Graphics Card Manufacturer: Graphics Card: OpenGL Version: (the higher the better, generally)
Visit the video card manufacturers website and compare this information with what drivers are currently available.
GENERALLY, its best to update to the current drivers. On occasion Second Life runs better on a less current version. For the most up to date information, check the forums. http://www.secondlife.com/forums
SecondLife requirements for video cards
(PC or Mac)
Nvidia Geforce2 (32MB RAM) or higher, or ATI Radeon 8500 (32MB) or higher
Players are playing with other cards that work but this is what is supported. If you have a card other than these you will need to find the manufacturers webpage and update to the latest drivers and hope for the best. You may also try the forums and see if anyone has posted with a similar setup to yours and got it to work.
NVIDIA Drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
ATI Drivers: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
11/29/04
Cards with known issues:
- ATI 9800 (bugs in the final design of this chip on this variant of the ATI Radeon cause problems with Ripple Water / Avatar Vertex Program shaders - Client will force-disable these options if cards built around this chipset are detected)
- radeon x300 x86/sse2
Not Supported:
- gforce MX 400
- ATI 7500
- SIS 661FX (onboard chipset)
- SIS VGA (any variant to date - these are onboard accelerators that do not implement the Hardware TnL required to run SL properly)
- Intel Extreme Graphics Chipset