Graphics Caqrd Driver Updating

Is your graphics card up to date?

First of all some software is very sensitive to how updated your graphics card drivers are, and I know first hand that Second Life can be a bugger with this, so what we're going to do is highlight what your graphics card is, and how updated it is.

If you are running Second Life on a windows operating system (Windows XP, ME, Vista or 7), press the windows key on your keyboard plus "r", and you will see a small command box pop up. This new box is called the "Run..." window which allows you to type in a command and it will run it.

You need to type in "dxdiag", and then if you click "Ok", you will see the run box disappear and a small pop up asking you if you want to digitally assign drivers. Click yes at this point. Once you have clicked yes, you will see the Dxdiag window appear with more details. For this article, we will be looking at the tab called "Display" or if you have two monitors/graphics cards it will be named "Display 1".

If you have clicked on the tab, you will see a few bits of information. The information that you need is as follows...

Device section -
Name: This is your graphics card name.
Manufacturer: This is the creator of your graphics card.

Drivers -
Date: This is the last time your graphics card drivers were updated. If this is longer than 4 months ago, I'd advise looking at updating these drivers.

To update your drivers, locate the manufacturers website, and then you will see the option on their website to update your drivers.

Good website links:
http://www.nvidia.com
http://www.amd.com
http://downloadcenter.intel.com

Rock on peeps.

Process Credit - Second Life

How do I sell L$?

First of all you need to make sure that your Second Life account has a billing age, which is an age that starts from the moment that you first make a financial transaction.

So if you have bought L$ through www.secondlife.com, have a premium membership or placed a positive USD balance "credit", onto your Second Life account you should be able to sell your L$ and process them.

The process is relatively simple. Go to www.secondlife.com, and if you log in, then scroll half way down the page, you should see your L$ balance on the left hand side. Just below the L$ balance, you will see the options "Buy L$" and "Manage". If you click "Manage", you will see a collection of options drop down, with the title "Manage your L$".

You will see the option "Sell L$", if you click on this, you can see the opportunity to place the amount of L$ you wish to sell. You will see the fields "Estimated Value" and "Estimated Proceeds". The finance you will receive in USD is the "Estimated proceeds" value. Linden Lab take a small portion to help maintain the servers and technology that allows you to make the L$, that you're current selling, so don't worry.

Once you have sold the L$, if you go back to your "Account Summery", you will see half way down under the title Linden Dollar Summery, the field "US Dollar Balance", where you will see the USD that you have just been given.

Do you remember that section of links under "Manage" ? Well if you go back to them, you will see the option to "Process credit". If you click the link, it will take you to the appropriate page, with details and information of how to transfer the USD balance to a Paypal account.

At the bottom of the page you will see the "Paypal" written in green, in the table. If you click on it, you will be taken to the page where you can enter the Paypal address and the amount of finance you wish to send to the Paypal account you want.

Is it really that complicated? Yes.

Rock on peeps!