[irainbow]

Okay, guys and gals -- I'm at my wit's end, and lord knows, I can't spare any!!!

I have an older dinosaur with an ATI Radeon 9550SE series video card. It's pitifully small in memory (256K) but I'm trying to avoid buying a new computer until I can't do anything but. Need it to run Second Life, but have been unsuccessful at updating the graphics cards.

In the past, I was able to update myself (?) by following basic instructions. Now, it seems everytime I try, it leads me to installing one or another software which locates 14-20 missing drivers, but then asks me to register (and pay) for it! I'm leery.

Is there any way to find the updated driver directly and install it? (Apparently, the Radeon 9550SE series graphics drivers is not handled in the same way as most of the other Radeon graphics drivers.)

Also, I *have* succeeded in downloading an upgraded "console center," but I'd need a college degree to figure out how to set all the settings. So far, I've twice failed at Second Life after installing -- once, the monitor just went black with no warning, and the other time, I just crashed!."

(Thanks for moving this to the category it belongs!

TIA for all help,
Iris

[replay]

your driver is here (assuming you have windows xp)
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...5&lang=English

[irainbow]

Consider yourself hugged and kissed! Well, I'm still lagging bigtime in Second Life, but at least I seem to not be crashing anymore. (And I've no idea what I actually installed with that one driver -- it seemed to include 3 components -- I didn't dare remove any without knowing what I'm doing! (TV remote? BAH!!!)

ROFL -- have a great day/evening/night/morning

(I *will* be shopping for a new computer soon ... with at least 2MB video memory (instead of 256K in the card).

Again, thanks a bunch!