Full-screen help

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Full-screen help

Post #1by djbog » 14.12.2008, 21:12

Hi,

I have been running regular Celestia 1.5.1 for a while, and not had any problems with full screen. However, with the educational version, putting the display into full screen seems to 'zoom' to the top left corner so I can only see about a quarter of the screen. It is always the top, left quarter regardless of the reolution or colour depth I set. See the screen shot below...
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If I move my mouse pointer to make the menu bar appear, the display resizes to the correct size. See below...
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Any ideas what is going on here? If I quit 1.5.1-ED and load the normal 1.5.1 without changing any settings, the standard release behaves perfectly normally.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give me.

For info, I am running Vista Business SP1 on a Core2Duo 1.66GHz Acer Laptop, 1GB RAM, GeForce Go 7600 128MB graphics.

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Re: Full-screen help

Post #2by John Van Vliet » 15.12.2008, 01:32

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Re: Full-screen help

Post #3by djbog » 15.12.2008, 12:04

Thanks for your reply.

I am running a screen res of 1024x768 for output to a projector. There is no 'Window' option in the Celestia menus. In Render / Select Display Mode I have set 1024x768x16, and it stil outputs at four times the size that it should. Is this the setting that you are referring to, or is there a 'Set Window Size' option somewhere that I have missed?

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Re: Full-screen help

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Re: Full-screen help

Post #5by djbog » 16.12.2008, 01:18

Hi, and thanks again for your reply. The problem has nothing to do with what I output it to. I have same issue in 'clone' mode, 'dual-view' mode and when I'm just using my laptops display by itself. The problem repeats on an lcd monitor, a crt monitor and a projector so it certainly isn't this that's causing the issue.

I also can't see how it can be a driver issue, as Celestia 1.5.1 regular edition works exactly as it should. If it was a driver issue, surely it should be both or neither?

My laptop has the nVidia 97.55c driver installed, (version 7.15.10.9755) and I have the nvidia control panel application on here as well. I have posted the output of the OpenGL Info below:

Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce Go 7600/PCI/SSE2
Version: 2.1.0
GLSL version: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Max simultaneous textures: 4
Max texture size: 4096
Max cube map size: 4096
Point size range: 1.000000 - 63.375000

Supported Extensions:
GL_ARB_color_buffer_float
GL_ARB_depth_texture
GL_ARB_draw_buffers
GL_ARB_fragment_program
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow
GL_ARB_fragment_shader
GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
GL_ARB_imaging
GL_ARB_multisample
GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_ARB_occlusion_query
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
GL_ARB_point_parameters
GL_ARB_point_sprite
GL_ARB_shadow
GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_shading_language_100
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
GL_ARB_texture_compression
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
GL_ARB_texture_env_add
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
GL_ARB_texture_float
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_program
GL_ARB_vertex_shader
GL_ARB_window_pos
GL_ATI_draw_buffers
GL_ATI_texture_float
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once
GL_S3_s3tc
GL_EXT_texture_env_add
GL_EXT_abgr
GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_color
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
GL_EXT_blend_minmax
GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_Cg_shader
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
GL_EXT_fog_coord
GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
GL_EXT_packed_pixels
GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object
GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_EXT_rescale_normal
GL_EXT_secondary_color
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
GL_EXT_texture3D
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
GL_EXT_texture_cube_map
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
GL_EXT_texture_lod
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp
GL_EXT_texture_object
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
GL_EXT_timer_query
GL_EXT_vertex_array
GL_HP_occlusion_test
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_KTX_buffer_region
GL_NV_blend_square
GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color
GL_NV_depth_clampG
GL_NV_fence
GL_NV_float_buffer
GL_NV_fog_distance
GL_NV_fragment_program
GL_NV_fragment_program_option
GL_NV_fragment_program2
GL_NV_half_float
GL_NV_light_max_exponent
GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint
GL_NV_occlusion_query
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil
GL_NV_pixel_data_range
GL_NV_point_sprite
GL_NV_primitive_restart
GL_NV_register_combiners
GL_NV_register_combiners2
GL_NV_texgen_reflection
GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc
GL_NV_texture_env_combine4
GL_NV_texture_expand_normal
GL_NV_texture_rectangle
GL_NV_texture_shader
GL_NV_texture_shader2
GL_NV_texture_shader3
GL_NV_vertex_array_range
GL_NV_vertex_array_range2
GL_NV_vertex_program
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
GL_NV_vertex_program2
GL_NV_vertex_program2_option
GL_NV_vertex_program3
GL_NVX_conditional_render
GL_NVX_instanced_arrays
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
GL_SGIS_texture_lod
GL_SGIX_depth_texture
GL_SGIX_shadow
GL_SUN_slice_accum
GL_WIN_swap_hint
WGL_EXT_swap_control

One other thing that I spotted is that when I launch Celestia Educational Edition the version number shows 1.5.0, even though the filename is celestia151-ED.exe. Which version is it, and will this make a difference?

Thanks for taking the time to help me, I'm sure my students will appreciate it.


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