Radeon 5650 with Second Life

[Guest]

Hello,

Does Second Life works with the ATI Radeon HD 5650?

 

[rolli59]

It should!

 

[ern88]

Yes.

 

[Guest]

Yes.

Do you have an ati radeon 5650

 

[ern88]

i have a 5850

 

[Guest]

but that one is also compatibel as shown on sl site, it's only the 5650 i don't know. Do you know anyone who has 5650 card?

 

[rolli59]

Hd5650 is way better than the minimum required cards listed http://secondlife.com/support/system-requirements/
It will play it but not on max detail. To do that you would need one of the power cards that are in recommended tab.

 

[Guest]

now i have a nvidia geforce 8400M GT gpu, will it be worse or better?

 

[rolli59]

HD5650 is much better than 8400M

 

[Guest]

Thank you, that is what i wanted to know

 

[Little Lost Linden]

Also, keep in mind that Second Life uses your CPU more than your GPU. Eventually this will change, but at the moment, that seems to be the case.

I use an HD 5850 at the moment with pretty much maximum detail on a Q6600 but I still wish I could get better fps. My cpu cores are usually hit pretty hard:

http://thebotzone.net/tweaks/

There is a new Second Life viewer that came out 3 days ago and it has some graphics improvements. You may want to d/l it:

http://thebotzone.net/2010/06/23/test-drive-viewer-2-1-beta-released-today/

They have really been pushing the envelope lately in terms of new viewer releases. They are shooting for every 2 weeks or so. Should be an exciting year for SL.

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