Second Life journal
02-13-09: I joined
Second Life (SL) a about a month ago because a family member told me how
much fun she was having.
I had know about SL for about a year and had thought
about join it them, but did not. So she convinced me to try it out and give
it a chance.
I am still setting up my avatar and have not put much
time into it yet, but SL has gotten my interest now.
You can consider this my first journal entry, here is a
picture of my current avatar, needs a lot of work still.
One thing before you join SL, there are some interesting people in SL and
you will know them when you see them.
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02-25-09:
Here is a screenshot of my cousin's avatar Leeny as
she camps a location to earn Linden Dollars, Leeny is her screen name
in Second Life.
The choices for female clothing is huge compared to male items. There are a
few place were you can get free items to start with and the select is very
large.
03-02-09:
this past Sunday my cousin Leeny brought down her
computer so I could update the hardware and software for her. It was generic
OEM brand with a 2.4GHz Celeron, a MSI MS-7005 motherboard, a gForce2 MX 400
with 64MB RAM, a 40GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM.
I update the RAM to 2GB using 2 PNY 1GB 400MHz sticks down clock to 333MHZ,
because that is what the motherboard only supported. I update the video card
to a gForce 5200 FX with 128MB of RAM and plan on adding either a ATI Radeon
2600 or 3650 series apg card later.
While testing the system updates we found that Second Life (SL) would no
longer login to the network. I updated the video card drivers six times,
reinstalled the SL software about four times.
My cousin then contacted one of her friends in SL who pointed us to the
system requirements page on the main website to see that the gForce 5 series
of video cards are not supported at all.
We lost about four hours trying to figure this out on our own. It never
occurred to me once that the video card was not supported. I know
outdated drivers would cause this issue, but to support gForce2, gForce 4
and gForce 6, but then skip completely gForce 5 makes no sense. Had to
reinstall the gForce2 card for now so she can login to SL.
Her friend is sitting on left in the image above here, thank you for your
help Angus.
You can check out the complete system requirements page online to see if you
need to update you hardware to run Second Life. LINK >>
HERE
