It has some great information.

This is a perfect example of what we’re trying to help with. This isn’t a support forum so I don’t want to derail it. Feel free to come by our site or get with us in-game for some help.

I will say that a google search for “second life X1650″ produces no results of anyone having a problem like this in the first ten pages. I popped one into my PC here and ran the game with no issue.

The point is that we will do the best we can to help you figure out what the problem is and get it fixed. When is that last time you asked someone for help and they went as far as to install the card you are using to see if they could recreate the problem you’re having?

When ATI/AMD gets rid of OpenGL (like we know you are trying to do) then I’ll no longer be able to run Second Life. I’ll also not be able to run Google Earth, Moray, Nasa Whirlwind, and a couple of games as well. Guess what’ll happen then – I’ll no longer run ATI cards in my computers. If ATI cannot keep OpenGL then I won’t be able to keep ATI. Which is a pity because I’ve run ATI cards since 3dfx went foom.

For the Linux driver thing, I can’t really respond since I don’t use it. The number of people using Linux vs. Windows to actually game (rather than serve games or business apps) is very very very very very very very small. Linux people won’t admit to that so I’m sure this is going to inflame several hundred people while the millions of Windows users won’t care.

I can think of no better way to explain the nature of TeamATI and what we’re doing in SL. Yes, AMD sponsors us. No they don’t dictate what we do and what we say nor to they provide us with our opinions. No AMD employee would say what I just said above no matter how true it is.

As far as how AMD “get’s Second Life”… AMD has their own corporate island which is, as far as I can tell, just as popular as virtually every other corporate island. Where AMD is different is that they are allowing a gaming group they have been sponsoring for years to do some really cool stuff for them.

The TeamATI island is TOTALLY a work in progress. We are building and scripting the things that are important to us and the things we think are important to other people. We have a bar and a garage sale and houses. We also have an expo center where you can pop in and learn a little about technology if you want. Our island is where we hang out.

AMD is a business. Second Life is a business. The real reason SL doesn’t have more corporate presence is the fact that it’s almost impossible to make actual real money by being there for anyone other than Linden Labs.

Think about this, there is a significant portion of it that carries over into real life. There really are a lot of real life businesses that have some kind of presence, you can spend real US dollars to get in-game currency and SL just had a convention in Chicago. But when it comes to empowering real business to make real money SL falls completely flat.

It is very rare that a company does something just because it’s fun or cool. But TeamATI is no company. We ar bunch of people who have been gaming together for years and fell into SL the same way most other people have. We learned to build and script by trial and error and reading guides.

Of course we are all AMD fans; we always have been. We had been building our little island for over two months before AMD even found out. I was very glad when they said- hey, this is kind of cool. What are you going to do next?

So now we find ourselves in a position to do more cool stuff like contests and giveaways. If you’ve read this far I’ll give you a little sneak peek into something really cool. We have some info on the next-gen card and will be posting some info about it as well as some contests in which you can win one.

Is that a corporate play at marketing? Of course it is. But remember that AMD is routing it through gamers to gamers in SL. Of all the things they could be doing they think that SL really is important and so does TeamATI.

There’s no such thing as “this videocard is better than this” between ATI and Nvidia, they are the most powerful companies into videocards, fairly equal match. However… I’d say ATI is better because they have good honest service all years long. They don’t go trying to brainwash you into buying their card in some videogame’s intro… like Nvidia’s stupid ads in most EA games.

Now AMD/ATI is here, where’s the hell is Nvidia and Intel? Oh right, they came and left, leaving junks all over MoU’s Sims.