Second Life and Intel 965 Chipset

I am not sure where to post this information, but I found a fix if you have a laptop that has the Intel 965 Chipset and cannot get on Second Life with Vista or XP. I located this fix while working with a student's laptop and it works for him. The Macbook Air has this chipset, too, and, while I can get into Second Life, it did crash sometimes. I have edited the file stated below and it seems to help. It definitely helped the student-- he can get right in now and never crashes!

Find the "user_settings" folder under your Second Life folder that is under AppData or Applications Data. (This may also be under .../Roaming/Second Life/user_settings/) You will also see a folder with your avatar's name. Don't change the settings.xml file in that folder, just the one in the user_settings folder.

Open the settings.xml file in the user_settings folder with Notepad. You will have to manually add the two lines below to this file to disable object occlusion. The lines to add (someplace after the first couple of lines and before the last couple of lines in the XML file) are:

<!--Enable object culling based on occlusion (coverage) by other objects-->
<UseOcclusion value="FALSE"/>

Chose to SAVE AS and overwrite the old setting.xml file, restart the computer, and, hopefully, you will then be able to connect to Second Life! I hope this works to solve the problem for some of you!

Kathy