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Problem in running Celestia with windows vista

Posted: 31.03.2007, 13:19
by Matteo
I have a computer with Windows Vista Home Premium, 2046 MB of Ram, and a video-card ATI mobility radeon X-1400, processore Intel Core (TM)2 CPU T5200 1,60 GHz, 32 bit.
The version of Celestia I try to run is Celestia 1.4.1.

The problem is that when I move the view in Celestia the program doesn't go well. What can I do?

In another computer I have with windows xp and a video-card Nvidia GE-Force X5200 goes all well.

Thanks in advance.

Matteo

Posted: 31.03.2007, 17:42
by Kolano
Celestia uses OpenGL/OpenGL2, so my guess here is that ATI's support of those APIs isn't that good under Vista yet.

There seems to be some discussion around this at...
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/385/1/

Posted: 31.03.2007, 20:54
by tech2000
Kolano wrote:Celestia uses OpenGL/OpenGL2, so my guess here is that ATI's support of those APIs isn't that good under Vista yet.

There seems to be some discussion around this at...
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/385/1/


Actually ATI's latest drivers v7.3 works very well in OpenGL. Be sure you have the latest drivers and you should be okay. Download them from http://ati.amd.com/

Bye, Anders

Posted: 01.04.2007, 06:04
by LordFerret
"Windows Vista Home Premium, 2046 MB of Ram, and a video-card ATI mobility radeon X-1400, processore Intel Core (TM)2 CPU T5200 1,60 GHz, 32 bit"

You're running Celestia on a dual-core system. We have a recent post discussing the issue. You might want to check it out.

http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10892

re

Posted: 01.04.2007, 16:56
by John Van Vliet
hi also Microsoft disables OpenGL in there drivers so ALWAYS use the drivers from the card manufactures site , in this case ati
http://ati.amd.com/

Re: Problem in running Celestia with windows vista

Posted: 11.04.2007, 17:22
by linuxm@n
I have a computer with Windows Vista Home Premium, 2046 MB of Ram, and a video-card ATI mobility radeon X-1400, processore Intel Core (TM)2 CPU T5200 1,60 GHz, 32 bit.
The version of Celestia I try to run is Celestia 1.4.1.



I have the same problem with a same configuration exept dual-core 7200 ant a ati 1750 on a laptop azus.

Windows vista refuse to run catalyst drivers and celestia don't' run properly (catastrophic)
My "old" 2400XP is realy faster (1.5 mb)
Vista with 2 mb memory is too short this os require munch more memory than XP. Windows Vista Basic can use 12gb of memory and 128gb for others vista version.
I'm a computer 's dealer and i have any computer in my store with 4 mb of ram. (La Fnac first PC dealer in Fran?§e)

Lot of people return their vista computer in Fnac and ask for Windows XP.


Since Yesterday you can try ATI-catalyst new-driver , they said that there it is fully vista compatible......try it

Linuxman

Re: Problem in running Celestia with windows vista

Posted: 11.04.2007, 19:10
by Fightspit
linuxm@n wrote:Windows vista refuse to run catalyst drivers and celestia don't' run properly (catastrophic)
My "old" 2400XP is realy faster (1.5 mb)
Vista with 2 mb memory is too short this os require munch more memory than XP. Windows Vista Basic can use 12gb of memory and 128gb for others vista version.
I'm a computer 's dealer and i have any computer in my store with 4 mb of ram. (La Fnac first PC dealer in Fran?§e)


:wink:

re

Posted: 12.04.2007, 19:05
by John Van Vliet
avoid ALL MS products and move to one of the Linux flavors