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If not intentional, this is an issue that typically manifests itself as your avatar being a solid or otherwise clashing color, or featuring spikes, bumps, and other unsightly protrusions coming out of your body.
 
First, if your graphics card meets our [http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php System Requirements], make sure you've updated to the newest drivers. This has historically been known to affect Residents with ATI cards more than nVIDIA ones.
 
If the problem still persists, or if you're running on unsupported hardware, try going to '''Edit > Preferences > Graphics Detail''' and deselecting the '''Avatar Vertex Program''' checkbox.
 
[[Image:_Graphics_Detail_tab.png]]
 
If there are still odd stripes, lines, or other glitches on your avatar, try a [[How do I rebake textures|texture rebake]].
 
{{KBnote|''' This is not the same as having an all-black avatar. For solutions to having an all-black avatar, see: [[My avatar is all black!]]
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 30 November 2011

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