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Hi, I've just downloaded Celestia, and I think it's an awesome piece of software, my physics teacher will go nuts over it. Thanks to the maker(s), for making it and for distributing it for free.

A quick question, though: is there any way to show the milky way galaxy iin a simpler form, maybe only a few big sprites instead of hundreds of puffs? Whenever I enable galaxies, my framrate takes a huge hit. I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Pentium 4 1.7GHz, with 256MB RAM (dunno what type) and a GeForce 2 MX400 64MB.

you shouldn't be getting lag with a system like that

I have a P4 1.5 with 512meg, with a Geforce 2 GTS 64

I have everything turned on
Plus I have added large Textures for Earth (43meg), Mars (21meg),
and the Moon (12meg).
and the 10000 stars data file installed

Then it only just gets slightly jerky, if I have all stars showing

What video Drivers are you useing
if your not useing them, use the latest Detonator4 drivers (40.71)
from http://www.nvidia.com

Thanks for the tip, the new drivers have improved things a fair bit, but it's still jerky, even with star count turned down, and no hi-res textures or extra star packs.

I just checked the frame rates, and mucking around with galaxies off, I get 30+ fps. When I turn galaxies on and get the centre of the galaxy in view, the framerate drops to the tens.