romanvida wrote:Hallo people! I’m using Windows 7 built 7077 on my computer and when I install Celestia win 2 1.5.1, I couldn’t see anything, only a white screen. Can somebody help me? When I was running Windows XP on the same computer (the same graphic card) everything was O.K.
Thanks! Roman
Hello Roman.
I was just preparing a thread on Windows 7 and Celestia, so you anticipated me.
Never mind.
I'm one of the zillion beta testers of this OS, from it's first beta release at the beginning of this year, the 7000, till to the Beta 7106 I'm testing now, that will be published and available officially on May 5th, but is already available now for a reduced number of testers.
So I followed the many improvements release after release, and here are my latest personal results with Celestia and Seven.
Obviously the same could not happen to other people, due the different hardware configurations, but the comparison of three Windows OS under the same configuration may be of interest, IMO.
I wrote a small cel script, that brought to a series of approaches to ElChristou's ISS last release, from far away to very close, and used it with
Windows x86 XP SP3,
VISTA x64 SP1 and
Windows Seven x64 7106.Here the
worst results, i.e. the lower fps I obtained with the three OS under the same scenary:
Vista 11 fps
Windows Seven 32 fps
Windows XP 34 fps. The results have been obtained with 1920x1200 pixel screen resolution at 32 bit colour depth, with each OS's latest Nvidia drivers (Windows Seven has its fresh own one, kindly released by Nvidia, given the enormous number of Win 7 testers. It's yesterday's 185.81 that exists in both x64 and x86 version, and you can find here
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us chosing the correct one for your graphic card and the relevant OS
).
Dunno if they exist for ATI graphic cards too, sorry.
So, if we consider that both my Vista and Win 7 are x64, so using my 4 GB of RAM fully, we can see that both are lower in performance than XP, and Vista dramatically.
But, there is always a "but", we should consider too that both Win 7 and its related Nvidia drivers are beta, so probably not yet at their optimum, and for this reason I think now we have the Windows XP heir.
Regarding your problem, it looks very strange, I searched for it in some Windows 7 forum, but didn't find any.
My little cent: have you tried to uninstall and then install once again Win 7?
Perhaps the problem is in the installation.
Or perhaps it's in a corrupted file, so I suggest you to download 7 once again.
Moreover, Roman, what is your hardware?
Knowing it could surely help us to understand what happened.
Bye and good luck!
Andrea
P.S.: hey Bob, my post is for you too. Interested?