Problem opening Celestia

[DubThomas]

HI:
I just installed Celestia and when I tryed to run itI get this error message:

"The application has failed to start because its side-by side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for ore detail."

I use the following:

Windows Vista Home Premium, 2 GB Ram, 1680*1050 Resolution
Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4CPU - 32bit - 3GH
Celestia 1.6.0

Google Earth works just fine

Thanks, Dub

[piellepi]

Hi Dub
I found quite the same problem yesterday in my notebook, after installation of a graphic program.
The error message is really ugly: after a lot of googling I found that the culprits are some missing dll files from (in my case) "VC++ 2008 redistributable package" .
I had to look at System Error Event to find that VCL90.ATL had a problem: the real problem is that VCL90.ATL doesn't exist at all! Microsoft is very cryptic: the missing dll was atl90.dll...
IMO it'd be better to write "missing dll" instead to write the uncommon sidebyside (on my piano keyboard... ) thing.
Ciao
Pierluigi

[DubThomas]

Any advice on how I can fix my problem?

Dub

[selden]

A problem caused by missing DLLs was supposed to have been fixed for V1.6.0.

Celestia for Windows is compiled using Visual Studio 2008.
You might try downloading and installing the VS2008 runtime DLLs from Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/deta ... laylang=en

Please let us know if this fixes your problem.

[DubThomas]

No such luck.
I guess I will uninstall Celestia.
Do you think it is a problem with Vista and it might run in Windows XP ?

Thanks, Dub

[selden]

Celestia runs fine under Windows XP and under Vista for many people. (I use XP) It also works under Win7.

It is not at all obvious to me why it doesn't run on your computer, so I don't know if it'll run under XP for you. It'd be really nice if the error message provided more details.

[BobHegwood]

No such luck.
I guess I will uninstall Celestia.
Do you think it is a problem with Vista and it might run in Windows XP ?

Thanks, Dub

I'm not much help here, but this program runs fine on my Vista system with
the Nvidia drivers installed. Just FYI...

Thanks, Brain-Dead