![]() Let me point out first that I am using a rather old PC running Ubuntu 11.04, on an old Athlon XP 3000+ Barton with an nvidia 6200 w/ 256mb. Be sure to download and install the proper drivers for your Video GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and will come with OpenGL. This is why Second Life is cross platform since it dosen’t rely on Microsoft. Windows does NOT come with OpenGL since it’s open source and Microsoft is not allowed to distribute it with a comercial product like Windows. One last thing about Window 8, or any fresh instal of Windows. So it’s best if you leave compatibility mode on if you have alts and want to log them on, or it will fail. It only seems to fail when logging in with the viewer for the first time after a clean install. Oddly enough if you turn off the compatibility mode after you have successfully logged in, Phoenix will still work. So you don’t need a copy of windows 7 laying around or installed to use this. Keep in mind this is compatibility mode, not any sort of virtualization mode. Right click the icon for Phoenix, compatibility tab, and Checkmark compatibly mode so it’s enabled, and choose windows 7. Quick answer to fox this? Set compatibility mode for the Phoenix Viewer shortcut to Windows 7. Installed Phoenix and it crashes on login. Installed it, updated it, installed drivers, bla bla bla. So I did a clean install of Windows 8, zapped my boot HDD clean by deleting partitions and installed Windows 8 from a DVD image i burned (which upgrade assistant creates for you). It did not see Phoenix viewer as being incompatible nor much of anything i had as incompatible Most of the things listed as incompatible was ironically microsoft software. I used the Windows Update Assistant app that scans your system looking for hardware AND software incompatibilities. At that time I didn’t really care since I wasn’t using Windows 8 on a PC I used full time, and it was a “Preview” version of windows and would likely had been a bug that would probably work it self out once the retail version of windows 8 is released. It’s hard to do any support on an unofficial operating system that can change drastically from beta form to official releases. I’ve told the Phoenix Team about this months ago when Win8 was still in “preview” and they don’t seem to care. It will either just hang there not progressing with the login or crash with an odd error message I’ve never seen before. While it installs fine and launches fine, it will fail during login. Phoenix doesn’t run properly in Windows 8. ![]() I my self have been using the consumer preview since last spring on a secondary desktop PC. I’m sure a lot of users have switched up to windows 8 over the past week. ![]()
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