Celestia 1.3.0 freezes on Win2K

[dakdoc]

I am running Win2k sp4, with a Matrox Millenium G450.
I am also running the virtual desktop eDesk. I am on an
amd athlon 1600+ with 512MB ram.

I've run Celestia twice, and both times it has frozen the PC to
the point that ctrl-alt-delete does not work. The cpu activity is
frozen at max (like it seemed to often be while running this app).

Seems like a cool app. WOuld be nice if there was a way to plot a
course thru the galaxy past each planet & orbits around a few
planets/moons to show the kids.

Paul

[Tech Sgt. Chen]

dakdok wrote:

I am running Win2k sp4, with a Matrox Millenium G450.
I am also running the virtual desktop eDesk. I am on an
amd athlon 1600+ with 512MB ram

I'm no expert so, bear with me; How much RAM does your graphics card have? Do you have any background programs running when you open Celestia? Hit Cont, Alt, Del then Task Manager and Performance, compare your available resources on the Resource meter before and after opening Celestia.
Is your HD near capacity?
Have you tried disabling the Virtual Desktop?

I've run Celestia twice, and both times it has frozen the PC to
the point that ctrl-alt-delete does not work. The cpu activity is
frozen at max (like it seemed to often be while running this app).

Are you connected to a network that uses DMA (Direct Memory Access)?
Also, is your Task Scheduler set to run any BackUp or other pre-scheduled programs?

There are a lot of possible causative factors that may be involved and the forum would be better equipped to help with all the information that you can provide.

[dakdoc]

dakdok wrote:

I am running Win2k sp4, with a Matrox Millenium G450.
I am also running the virtual desktop eDesk. I am on an
amd athlon 1600+ with 512MB ram

I'm no expert so, bear with me; How much RAM does your graphics card have?

32MB

>Do you have any background programs running when you open Celestia? Hit Cont, Alt, Del then Task Manager and Performance, compare your available resources on the Resource meter before and after opening Celestia.

My card has 32MB on it.

>Is your HD near capacity?



Have you tried disabling the Virtual Desktop?

I've run Celestia twice, and both times it has frozen the PC to
the point that ctrl-alt-delete does not work. The cpu activity is
frozen at max (like it seemed to often be while running this app).

Are you connected to a network that uses DMA (Direct Memory Access)?
>Also, is your Task Scheduler set to run any BackUp or other pre-scheduled programs?

They would not have been running. I tried it just after rebooting &
it still locked up after a few minutes of playing around. I had 350MB+
of RAM available. I do have an HP office jet with many (default) support exe's running, but I cannot easily remove them.

My system generally runs for 25+ days (24*7) between reboots or crashes, so this is particularly less than satisfying.

>There are a lot of possible causative factors that may be involved and the forum would be better equipped to help with all the information that you can provide.

Maybe I should try it on my dual 1GHz mac?

Paul

[Star Lion]

I know exaktly whats wrong

Your using windows 2k SP4, that service pack makes celestia buggy,

So there are two things that you can do:
1.Reinstalling celestia sometimes helps
2.Upgrading to SP5 will fix it

[Silikat_de]

w2k without sp4 ist buggy. on my computer it works gorgeously with sp4. but i await sp5.

[Star Lion]

On the windows 2000 computer I tested celestia on Celestia stoped working after installing SP4, and only worked again after installing SP5 (Beta Version)