I play Second Life quite a bit and have recently started crashing constantly. When I say crashing, I mean my computer literally shuts down completely. It only does this when playing Second Life. I am beginning to think there is a problem with the graphics card because at first the colors on the screen would just go crazy. This would freeze me up and I would have to restart. Then I started noticing there would be a message about my graphics card being reset...blah blah blah. Don't really remember what it said exactly. That stopped happening but then I just started crashing. I can't be on for like 30 minutes and then the computer just cuts off. Takes about 15 minutes before I can boot the computer back up. Hubby said he updated the drivers the other day...but in the middle of updating he got an exceptions error. He hasn't tried again and I keep having the same troubles. I have no clue where to go to update the drivers...so I guess that is basically my question. The graphics card we have is a Radeon 3D Graphics Card. I don't know if there is anything else in the name or where I could look to find out but if someone could please help me I would greatly appreciate it. I know our computer is up to standards as far as the game requirements but there is just something I can't quite figure out and I'm hoping this is it. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and sorry so long.
mdbobbitt
mdbobbitt
