Playing Second Life on new MacBook

This occurs for me as well. Similar hardware same results

I bought my Macbook like 1 year ago and I have no problem playing SecondLife... Works just fine for me.

Ditto here. Got a 2GB Black Macbook today. Can log in, and maybe last 30 secs before a hard freeze. I know it was playable on the old model. Either the GMA X3100 chipset or Leopard is doing something. I would suspect the former, as I can play it on a recent iMac with Leopard installed.

I can confirm this on the new MacBook running a newer version of Leopard (Build 9A3110).

I just got a MBP SR 2.2ghz and 4gb ram last week.

I can maybe get 30 minutes of Secondlife going before the hard restart has to happen. Doens't make a diff what I'm doing runing/not running... wish someone would get thier ***** in gear though and fix it. I was looking fowad to finally playing this game after 7 years on a g4 400, but I can't even do it now.

I tried it out just too see what it was all about on my mid 07' MacBook with the stock 1GB of RAM (2.16Ghz).

It ran reasonably under Leopard with no freezes. I think the problem everyone is talking about is definitely limited to the newer MacBooks.

Here is info for newer MacBook Pro users with the nVidia 8600 chip: Second Life will crash after short use due to a memory leak that apparently derives from the drivers Apple is using. This leak is known to Apple and Second Life, and SL says they can't do anything about it. It is a !@#@$!-ing drag, but until Apple gets their act together and fixes it, there is only a shoddy workaround available that I have not personally tried. In the meantime I just run SL on my iMac G5.

Here are a couple of links:
http://sl4mac.com/2007/10/01/macbook-pro-2007-graphics-freeze-workaround/
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MacBookPro_2007_Graphics_FreezeWorkaround
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1978

The last link has some correspondence from some Lindens about their contact with Apple.

Bottom line, this *****, and Apple/nVidia should be doing something about it, but so far no progress in sight. The fact that this problem continues with Leopard is really, really disappointing.

IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING MORE UP-TO-DATE THAN THIS, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW, TOO!!

Hulsenbeck

Since you're using a MacBook Pro, you may want to have a look at this:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MacBookPro_2007_Graphics_FreezeWorkaround

I'm getting the exact same issue, just got a brand new Macbook (White, 2.2ghz, November 07). Crashes quickly when opening up Second Life.

😟

The same with me. Treid to use openGL and the workaround.
same effect.
Freezes after 30 seconds.

What do you think who can help?
SL just told me that they do not support intel graphic chips.

Just got my wife a new MacBook (White w 2gb ram). Everything works well and the MacBook does so many things faster than my iMac G5. Yesterday I wanted to show her what Second Life was all about. SL loaded up super fast and then after about 30 seconds to a minute it froze the whole computer and I had to shut it down and re-start. Not a great way for her to get to know Sl : (
What a drag. I'm really disappointed. I assumed that if it ran well on my 4 year old iMac that it should run GREAT on a new MacBook. This is the first time I've been sorry about a Mac purchase. I did not think to check into this issue before I ordered it. What a drag.

Hello,
I've got a june 2007 Macbook pro,(under Tiger at this time) SL manage to freeze the whole computer, no other software did that before...
When SL does'nt freeze the mac, it's VERY slow (slower than my old pc)

At this time, I suggest you to install unbuntu linux 🙂 or windows XP 😟 in dual boot to play SL,
waiting Apple and Nvidia to make better Mac drivers.

I though I had bought a powerful laptop, with an honnest graphic card, seems to be a bad joke.

Just got my new MacBook today. I was so excited to have something fast enough to run SL and Leopard. Unfortunately, the same problems that everyone has been discussing struck me too.

Is Apple going to do anything about this?

APPLE. FIX THIS PROBLEM. This is ridiculous.

I hope you've sent some feedback here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbook.html