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[quote="selden"]Murphy, You'll actually get better 3D graphics (although slower) if you disable hardware graphics acceleration entirely and use software OpenGL routines. As Fridger mentioned, the OpenGL drivers provided long ago by 3DFX are obsolete and buggy. If you're running Windows, yo...

Maybe 16MB is not enough? Vendor: 3Dfx Interactive Inc. Renderer: 3Dfx/Voodoo3 (tm)/2 TMUs/16 MB SDRAM/KNI/ICD (Jan 16 2001) Version: 1.1.0 Max simultaneous textures: 2 Max texture size: 256 Supported Extensions: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_ver...

[quote="dirkpitt"][quote="Murphy"]2. My text graphics are square boxes not letters so I can only read some of the program text.[/quote] Sounds like either a driver issue, missing fonts, or insufficient VRAM. Are the square boxes light-purple rectangle outlines, or are they solid ...

What kind of jacka$$ would hack this site? Jeez.. If I'm going to risk going to prison for computer hacking, this site would not be anywhere near the top of my list... If your getting hacked then I totally understand your problems so far as website speed. The site is speeding up as I write this howe...

Yes, I can be of assistance. 1. Improve the website by loosing all the fancy stuff that gobbles bandwidth and creates software problems. Graphics are great but not when every single button, icon, menu, etc etc on the site is crammed with them. 2. Organize the information in a useable format that doe...

[quote]I am one of the authors of Celestia (yes there is more than one!). All of us are highly professional characters, each one having his strong area of competence. The professional associations range from NVIDIA software engineers, to theoretical physics Professors...Both NASA and ESA have been u...

When I click a link on this website, nothing happens!!!!!!!! I have to wait for 45 seconds, then the page goes blank, wait another 10 seconds and the page starts to load... 45 seconds later, most of the page loads but graphics are still working. Almost 2 minutes later, page is completely loaded. Its...

Ok.. Lets start with the first problem.. This website.. PING TIME 1 = 250ms PING TIME 2 = 270ms PING TIME 3 = timed out PING TIME 4 = timed out I click on my bookmark to this form.. Time to page load = ~45 seconds. Time to page load last night at 2am in the morning = >1 minute Time to page load at t...

What the freak heck is wrong with this program? 1. Orbits lines are half missing or the graphics are screwed up. ISS and Hubbel orbits pass behind the planets. 2. My text graphics are square boxes not letters so I can only read some of the program text. 3. It is almost impossible to get an add-on to...