Problem with 1.2.5

Black · Post #1by **Black** » 10.01.2003, 00:31

Celestia 1.2.4. version working on my Athlon4-1000Mhz/196Mb/ATI Rage

with no problems , But 1.2.5.version crushes when in DEMO appears

Solar System. Why? Chris answer please.( excuse me for my English

I`am russian)

TVTExtreme4 · Post #2by **TVTExtreme4** » 10.01.2003, 02:43

I am having problems also. Celesita 1.2.4 works fine but whenever i go to earth in Celestia 1.2.5 the program freezes. I have an ATI Radeon 8500/AMD Duron 750mhz. I think its the new ATI drivers because if i roll back to the older drivers celestia works fine. Is anyone else with an ATI card havin this problem?

Darkmiss · Post #3by **Darkmiss** » 10.01.2003, 02:47

Wouldnt touch one with a barge pole :roll:

T.P. Reitzel · Post #4by **T.P. Reitzel** » 10.01.2003, 06:26

I'm using an ATI Xpert 128 (Rage chip) and it works nicely. Although, the Rage is far from state of the art, it renders adequately on a fast CPU which is enough for my purposes. Celestia 1.2.4 definitely had problems with the Rage chip, but so far, v 1.2.5 of Celestia is performing admirably. I'm not really sure what the problem is with the Rage and Radeon, but it's PROBABLY associated with the OpenGL drivers. BTW, a big THANK YOU to the Celestia team for adding the KDE interface. Now, I waiting for the GNOME 2 one as well ...

Celestia 1.2.5 is NICE!

Black · Post #5by **Black** » 10.01.2003, 11:46

Ok. You Think the Problem is VideoCard in

this case?I dont think so(why 1.2.4. working good with ATI Rage?)

T.P. Reitzel · Post #6by **T.P. Reitzel** » 10.01.2003, 23:23

Black,

I'm not sure to whom you are referring, but the obvious answer would be the OpenGL DRIVERS, not the card itself. BTW, I'm using Linux instead of Windows to run Celestia. I can NOT vouch for the stability of the Rage OpenGL drivers for Windows, but I can vouch for the stability of the GATOS OpenGL drivers for XFree86 v 4.2. From memory, I think the website for the GATOS project is http://gatos.sf.net for LINUX drivers. I don't recall if the GATOS project supports Windows. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to test the stability of my ATI OpenGL drivers for Windows 98SE with Celestia.

Keep at it. You'll find a solution eventually WITHOUT having to trash the Rage card.

Black · Post #7by **Black** » 11.01.2003, 00:13

[quote="T.P. Reitzel"]
T.P.Reitzel,

Thanks for answer.

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