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Unfortunately, you aren't actually using the Nvidia driver, so updating it won't make any difference. Celestia's OpenGL output reveals that you're using SciTech's OpenGL-to-DirectX translator. Since Nvidia's graphics driver supports both OpenGL and DirectX, the SciTech graphics driver is unnecessar...

ozzyoscy, looks like you are trying to run Celestia with a directX opengl wrapper. This is not going to work. Celestia rendering engine will not be able to initialize properly and will throw the pixel format error you are seeing. I guess there is an opengl32.dll in your Celestia directory. Please d...

When I try it in full screen, even when running in 256 colors, I get a 'fatal error' which says 'Could not get appropriate pixel format for OpenGL rendering'. This may be the error I hear when I open Celestia whilst not running 256 colors.

With older graphics hardware, setting the display to a high resolution reduces the number of colors available. You might try reducing the resolution (to, e.g. 800x600) to see if that makes a difference. I use 800 x 600 anyway, so it didn't work on that resolution. I've also tried 1024 x 768. Which ...

Up to a year ago, Celestia worked fine. I tried it yesterday and the splash screen and the program loaded, but then there was an error sound and the window was white (I didn't see any of the screen, like planets and such). The window wasn't frozen really, just white or displaying the image of a prev...