V. 1.4.0 doesn't recognize nVidia card that works with 1.3.2
Posted: 02.09.2006, 17:55
As a temporary solution to the inability of compiling Celestia 1.4.1 on my Slackware Linux 10.0 system, I have installed 1.4.0 with KDE support. It mostly works, but performance on my nVidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra with 256 M of RAM is worse than Celestia 1.3.2 with GTK on the same system.
I configured Celestia 1.4.0 with:
This version apparently doesn't properly recognize che card. The OpenGL info command does show the card:
But the only available renderpaths are Basic and Multitexture, while Celestia 1.3.2 provides more such as nVidia GeForce FX, NVIDIA combiners, etc. And there is the performance degradation.
How can I diagnose this performance issue? How can I tell whether Celestia 1.4.0 is properly recognizing and using my card? Can I force its use via configuration options or other ways?
Paolo Amoroso
I configured Celestia 1.4.0 with:
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--prefix=/usr/local/celestia-1.4.0 --with-kde --with-lua=/usr/local/lua
This version apparently doesn't properly recognize che card. The OpenGL info command does show the card:
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Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer : GeForce FX 5600/AGP/SSE2
Version : 1.2 (1.5.3 NVIDIA 71.74)
Max simultaneous textures: 4
Max texture size: 4096But the only available renderpaths are Basic and Multitexture, while Celestia 1.3.2 provides more such as nVidia GeForce FX, NVIDIA combiners, etc. And there is the performance degradation.
How can I diagnose this performance issue? How can I tell whether Celestia 1.4.0 is properly recognizing and using my card? Can I force its use via configuration options or other ways?
Paolo Amoroso