Two problems have occurred from the start. Firstly, the Gigabyte motherboard utility (the GUI-MFC portion) requires UAC permission after every restart. It also needs UAC permission when logging in as a different Vista user (I use a separate Vista account for Second Life) even though it’s already running under the admin login. I assume this is needed because it is the visual portion of the tune-up application. Also, the GUI-MFC has, on a few occasions, gone 100% on a single core and needs to be terminated. Then, it sometimes takes two or three attempts at starting the tune-up app (with UAC on each attempt) before it is able to be accessed from the system tray. Very unstable for the first couple of days but seems to be settling down.
Secondly, I’ve had a couple of video driver resets while using Second Life. The application doesn’t crash but the screen is black so I have to exit anyway. More recently, I’m seeing occasional freezes that have the same feeling as when the video driver resets, but SL recovers after 2-10 seconds. This was a major problems this morning when I had two instances of SL running. Memory, CPU and network load were all low but the screen kept freezing. I think it’s the video driver. However, AVG Free was doing a scan at the time.
Oh, Bill, while I have your attention. There’s a bug in Notepad (where I’m preparing this blog entry). I’ve used Notepad as my preferred text editor for 17 years and now you’ve broken it. If you turn Word Wrap (yes, I know, Notepad didn’t have word wrap back then) on and go back and edit some earlier text, the soft line breaks get screwed up. Cycling Word Wrap fixes them so I believe it counts as a bug. Also, when I paste the contents from here into WordPress, I have to turn Word Wrap off otherwise it copies the soft line breaks as hard line breaks.