Playing Second Life on new MacBook

Hi Andrew, I tried the workaround above using the OpenGL Profiler.app and selected "Apple Software Renderer" as my graphics driver and I still experience the same freezing. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi Todd,

I am not sure what to tell you. It works for me. The only idea I can add is to suggest possibly experimenting with the other options in that Profiler. Try driver possibilities other than "Apple Software Renderer."

Good luck

Thanks Andrew! I've been doing that as well and it's been yielding the same results... what a bummer!

Andrew, got it working now... one question... do I need to start the OpenGL Profiler first before starting SL? Thanks!

hi got the same problems as all of the above. tried open gl on several settings. which one did u find the best? do i have to do anything else? heeeelp. already pulling teeth out over protools issues. need some hope. this is my first ever mac and its not looking great so far!!!

I have been able to get SL to run in Windows under Boot Camp so that is a solution that works.

(On another note, Portal from the Orange Box works with these new Macbooks and it didn't with the earlier models, that's awesome!)

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Newbie on a Mac here as well. I was specifically sent a new Mac because my PC wouldn't play nice on SL, now the brand new one doesn't play at all...sigh. Great gift to me but gotta get SL working on it. Any updated luck on changing settings? HEEELLLPPP!!! 🙂

Following the directions in the Wiki link in posts above does seem to work for most people. If you are unsure as to what driver to use, play it safe and choose "Apple Software Renderer."

Yes, Unfortunately you must launch SL from the OpenGL Profiler every time. Since it is a work around however, it's better than nothing.

Hi Disco,
Were you able to find a fix? I have your exact same configuration and experience the same problem, of course. I tried to run "OpenGL Profiler.app" and got this scary warning message about how my settings would be changed if I went forward. I went forward and was unable to find anything remotely like Apple renderer or how to change your drive. Any hint would be greatly welcome. Thanks!

Here is an interesting turn of events that leads me to further believe it is a problem with OpenGL in 10.5.

On my iMac Core2Duo with ATI x1600 @ 128mb, I get these types of graphical anomalies when ever I exit a game (Second Life, WoW, Eve)
http://homepage.mac.com/lintila/Picture-2.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/lintila/Picture-3.jpg

Same thing happens on my MacBook, only it crashes just about 10 seconds into anything.
Since I have AppleCare, I'll call this one in tomorrow...

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Thank you, Andrew. Do you think I may avoid the crashes by adding RAM? Is that somehow limiting my Graphics Card (GMA X3100)?

Well, my MacBook has 2 gigs of ram, and it doesn't make much of a difference. My iMac also has 2 gigs. It crashes as well.

I'm also having this problem, but I'm not having any luck using SL in Windows, I get exactly the same problem there too...

Any clues as to why yours works? What version of SL is everyone running?

Thanks!

P.s. Has anyone tried posting on the SL forums, there is a Mac Discussions section there with a few people talking about the X3100 Macbooks.

Hi all,
I just did a bit of searching around regarding this problem and came across this:

http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2007/11/29/there-is-a-hack-for-second-life-and-th e-intel-965-chipset/

I have done the same edit to the xml file detailed above in the Mac OS Viewer and it WORKED.
I don't know if there are any side effects from doing this but it's a lot easier than downloading the OpenGL Profiler and all that jazz.

The file so you know is in the folder:

~/Library/Application Support/Secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml

Of course credit to the person who poster this fix on the intel site. I hope it works for you and there aren't any issues with it.