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It has been discussed that in a future version of Celestia, virtual textures can be dynamically unloaded to free up memory. That would be a good Feature, otherwise i need 8 gb RAM and a 64bit Sytem. Although Memory has lower Prices now, it makes Problems on my Board trying to use more than 3 Module...

If i zoom a few Times into Earth, Moon, Mars it doesn't take 3 Minutes - my 2 GB RAM are full and it's going to use the Swapfile on Disk, working about 20 Seconds i can't do anything until i see the next made zoom Action. I Know i nearly use the biggest Textures for Celestia that are available - on ...