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This question comes up a lot in the forums in varied forms: | This question comes up a lot in the forums in varied forms, and this page is a stopgap to answer: | ||
* '''Is the Second Life Viewer compatible with Windows 7?''' | * '''Is the Second Life Viewer compatible with Windows 7?''' | ||
* '''Does Second Life run on Windows 7?''' | * '''Does Second Life run on Windows 7?''' | ||
* '''Can I use Second Life on Windows 7?''' | |||
The answer is officially ''yes'' from Linden Lab, with the following caveats: | The answer is officially ''yes'' from Linden Lab, with the following caveats: | ||
Revision as of 09:20, 8 September 2010
This question comes up a lot in the forums in varied forms, and this page is a stopgap to answer:
- Is the Second Life Viewer compatible with Windows 7?
- Does Second Life run on Windows 7?
- Can I use Second Life on Windows 7?
The answer is officially yes from Linden Lab, with the following caveats:
- The System Requirements page needs to be updated. Changes are in the queue but they're awaiting a future web push. Yes, it sounds counterintuitive — dontcha wish it was as easy to change some text there as this wiki? ;)
- We support 32-bit Windows 7. Torley's asked to find out if there are any particular known issues with 64-bit Windows 7, since there are an increasing number of modern systems that have >3 GB of RAM. There are many reports of the Viewer running fine on x64, but make sure to update your graphics drivers. That's true for every version of Windows, and if you have a problem with the Viewer on Win 7, it may not be that OS-specific, so do some investigating.