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Harald: Thank you kindly for the link. I am sorry I didn't find it myself when I did a search. :( I quote: b) Any graphics card with drivers that support OpenGL v1.4 (e.g. ATI Radeon 9500 or better; Nvidia GF4 Ti 4xxx series cards) (Note: As of March,'04, ATI has fixed many of the bugs in the driver...

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I have cycled the 3 different render paths with CTRL+V. Multitexture and Basic both work fine. OpenGL does not.

I have continued to think about this anomaly and something occured to me: All of the affected planets are gas giants but Jupiter was not included with them. I then asked myself what those three had in common and the answer is: Ring systems! I experimented by turning off ring shadows and the planets ...

I had to reinstall my OS this week. All software, hardware and drivers are the same. My system: Windows 2000, SP4, DirectX9b ATI Radeon 9200se, 128 MB, 4x 1024x768 32 bit display Duron 1.1 Ghz 768 MB RAM + 1.5 - 2 GB pagefile. I previously had Celestia 1.3.1 running quite fine. I had added several a...

Thanks for the welcome Don!

I have another question concerning proper installation of .DDS add-on files. Should I start a new thread?

It seems I have solved this one myself.

Solution: reinstall DirectX 9.

~Jim

This is my first post here so please forgive any posting improprieties. System: Duron 1.1 Ghz, 768 MB RAM, ATI 9200se 128 MB AGP video card, W2K + SP4. Running Celestia v1.3.1 I found this wonderful program some time ago but it didn't run properly on my old video card, which was only 8 MB. I got the...