Flickering / Strange textures

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Suensyan
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Flickering / Strange textures

Post #1by Suensyan » 26.11.2007, 17:10

Hopefully I don't do anything REALLY stupid by putting this question to its own topic :oops: , but I have two problems:

1. Some planets, not all of them, are flickering. Sometimes flickering disappears when zooming in or out

2. Some planet textures seems very odd, I mean they don't show all, just stripe around planet, moon etc.

My computer is 1,6 Mhz, graphic card is 3D Blaster 4 Ti 4600 and Windows XP. And there's now problems with speed in Celestia, I mean that there's no slowing or nothing like that, it works fine and smooth (except those problems).

And Celestia is that educational one.

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Re: Flickering / Strange textures

Post #2by Andy74 » 27.11.2007, 08:42

Are you using the latest drivers for your video card?

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Post #3by BobHegwood » 27.11.2007, 14:00

Sounds to me like there could be something wrong with your
"solarsys.ssc" file too... If this file is pointing Celestia to a planet
texture which doesn't exist, you will get some strange displays.

You described one of your problems thusly:

"Some planet textures seems very odd, I mean they don't show all,
just stripe around planet, moon etc. "

The "stripe" around a planet can occur easily if a ring texture has
been incorrectly defined in the "solarsys.ssc" file. Use Notepad, or
whatever your equivalent editor is, and have a look at this file in
your Celestia/data folder.

Just FYI...

Thanks, Bob
Brain-Dead Geezer Bob is now using...
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Gateway Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200, 2.5GHz
7 GB RAM, 500 GB hard disk, Nvidia GeForce 7100
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Post #4by Hungry4info » 27.11.2007, 14:12

It may help to post some pictures of what is going on.
Current Setup:
Windows 7 64 bit. Celestia 1.6.0.
AMD Athlon Processor, 1.6 Ghz, 3 Gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics


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