Windows 7 support
Revision as of 09:22, 8 September 2010 by Torley Linden (talk | contribs)
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 card drivers. That's true for every version of Windows, and if you have a problem with the Viewer on Win 7, it may not specific to the operating system, so do some investigating.