On the eve of the motorcycle event, I thought this might be useful for anyone else who has a notebook or desktop running Vista without a dedicated graphics processor.
Apparently Intel's new x3100 Integrated Graphics Chipset (which, for being an integrated solution, I must say is quite formidable), is presently incompatible with Second Life. Second Life will crash immediately upon opening. Getting Second Life to run requires making a small settings hack, as Intel's most recent driver does not fully support OpenGL Object Occlusion (Wikipedia Link: See "computer graphics")
This settings hack is detailed here, in the Intel Software Network forums as a cross-post from the Second Life forums.
Wanting to run Second Life on my Lenovo X61, this did the trick. Maybe it can help others, too. This integrated graphics processor can run Counter-Strike: Source on almost full settings, and the drivers are still in beta. I can't wait to see what they can do once the remainder of this card's potential is unlocked.
Comments (1)
Yeah, I don't like when companies release hardware without finishing the software with it, but I guess its better than getting hardware that will never be as good.
I'm having some problems with my ATI Radeon Mobility X1400, got any suggestions there?
Posted by Josh Hepworth | October 15, 2007 12:56 AM
Posted on October 15, 2007 00:56