Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Second Life Crashed My Computer.. Twice.

Yup. And let me tell you, that was not fun. Right now I'm scared to even start the game, so I'm leaving it alone for now. It happened twice, on start-up of the game, when during the loading process the screen just froze up and after a while I got a Blue Screen of Death that informed me that Windows had shut down to protect the system. Great. Thank you, SecondLife!

It all started off well. Well, reasonably well. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change the appearance of my gothic chick and change her make-up, so I ended up creating another character. Sorry guys, I'll friend your characters as soon as I can. My new name is Kolibri Yoshikawa, and she at least looks the way I want her to look, which is major progress in my book. I was enjoying myself for a while even. I visited several places, like Second Sweden, Little Stockholm, and I even found Knightsbridge, London, that looked very ellaborate and even had its little tube station with an underground club. I also ended up going to Osaka, Japan and Rome, Italy! That fountain in Rome really impressed me and I ended up sitting down on the edge there and meditating for a while. So it's all good and fun, but now I'm scared to play! I'm not quite sure what to do about this error and how to fix it.. How very very annoying.

Anyway, hope you like the screenshots. Technology hates me today.

- Eve.

4 comments:

Mia said...

The screenshots look good, Eve. I'm sorry to hear you had trouble with shutdowns etc. Unfortunately that happens at times, especially when we've just got a new client. However, as we were discussing in class earlier, your computers seem a bit too weak as well, even though I'm not sure that's the reason for the crash. We certainly have to discuss this with Teri though.

Eve said...

Yeah, I was thinking about reformatting my laptop sometime soon, maybe that would help. It certainly is very annoying and troublesome.

DigCult [Kristoffer Åberg] said...

There are thousands of people with similar problems with the graphic card "Intel 915gm", the same card we have in our laptops. The laptops, in general, are very fast, but too bad the graphic card is the worst HP could dig up from Intel's trash cans.

Eve said...

Ain't that the truth. Second Life isn't the first game I've had problems with when it comes to the graphic card. Sigh.