Playing Second Life on new MacBook

wow really? you tried it in parallels as well and it still didn't work? has anyone tried it in boot camp on XP? this really blows!

levmyshkin wrote:
Mine freezes as well. Brand new MacBook. The workaround does not work. I tried running it in Parallels with XP -- no dice.

Still freezes. I thought that Parallels would solve the problem for sure, but it doesn't, which means there's a pretty serious hardware problem.

Had issues, changed the Occlusion, was very happy but still froze. Stopped using Airport and got an Ethernet cable and know now that any problems with SL is SL's fault! Wonderful!

such a bummer!

mika50 wrote:
Had issues, changed the Occlusion, was very happy but still froze. Stopped using Airport and got an Ethernet cable and know now that any problems with SL is SL's fault! Wonderful!

No...everything runs perfectly on SL now. the only problems I have are typical SL problems!!!

Excellent! Going form Airport to ethernet cable? did that work or improve your situation? I installed windows yesterday on using boot camp then installed SL and SL does the same thing in windows on my MacBook as it did on the OS X side... I can't get in long enough to change the occlusion setting but for the life of me can remember how to get the debug menu up.

mika50 wrote:
Had issues, changed the Occlusion, was very happy but still froze. Stopped using Airport and got an Ethernet cable and know now that any problems with SL is SL's fault! Wonderful!

GraphicTodd wrote:
I can't get in long enough to change the occlusion setting but for the life of me can remember how to get the debug menu up.

You do not need to go online to change the occlusions. You can do it manually. Please see the instructions I posted above.

hi Andrew, I understand that as that's what I did to SL on the OS X side but I can't find the settings.xml file in the windows version... that's why I was going to try and log in and change it in the debug menu.

Andrew Mcvinnie wrote:

GraphicTodd wrote:
I can't get in long enough to change the occlusion setting but for the life of me can remember how to get the debug menu up.

You do not need to go online to change the occlusions. You can do it manually. Please see the instructions I posted above.

GraphicTodd wrote:
hi Andrew, I understand that as that's what I did to SL on the OS X side but I can't find the settings.xml file in the windows version... that's why I was going to try and log in and change it in the debug menu.

I do not spend a lot of time in Windows, but I assume you have looked here?
Find this folder on your system: \Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml

I've looked everywhere and I've also searched but have yet to come up with the settings.xml file in the windows version of SL. You understand that I'm trying to fix the windows version of SL that I'm trying to play on windows under boot camp?

Andrew Mcvinnie wrote:

GraphicTodd wrote:
hi Andrew, I understand that as that's what I did to SL on the OS X side but I can't find the settings.xml file in the windows version... that's why I was going to try and log in and change it in the debug menu.

I do not spend a lot of time in Windows, but I assume you have looked here?
Find this folder on your system: \Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml

Hi GTodd,

Yes, I understand that you are trying to play on Windows in BootCamp. The fix works for Windows as well, I know because I did it.

I understand how hard it can be to find files -- any files -- in windows, especially files hidden in "AppData" folders.

The following file location is for Windows, not Mac OS X. That is where it is in my Windows installation.
\Documents and Settings\myname\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml

Andrew, you rock! you were correct and I did indeed find the settings.xml file exactly where you said it would be! thank you so much! I was able to get into SL and it seems to play so much better on the Windows side... only problem is I can't figure out how to fly using the arrow keys! 🙂

Andrew Mcvinnie wrote:
Hi GTodd,

Yes, I understand that you are trying to play on Windows in BootCamp. The fix works for Windows as well, I know because I did it.

I understand how hard it can be to find files -- any files -- in windows, especially files hidden in "AppData" folders.

The following file location is for Windows, not Mac OS X. That is where it is in my Windows installation.
\Documents and Settings\myname\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml

There isn't a file for SL in my Application Support folder...

I suggest everyone trying to play Second Life on their MacBook late 2007 or anyone having the freezing issue to post here:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3494

Log in using your Second Life name and Password, on the left side of the page click comment and write away... maybe if enough people start posting we'll get a fix instead of the terrible settings.xml fix that still doesn't work.

bump

Anyone have any updated info on this situation yet? I talked to some yesterday about the GMA X3100 graphics card and they said it was the worst graphics card that apple could have used and it's not good for gaming at all... is that true?