Somethingo goes wrong
Posted: 30.01.2002, 02:02
First of all, I say that Celestia is a very cool program and I follow it from the first version release.
I've just installed the newest version of Celestia on my machine, a Pentium II 350 MHz with a Matrox G200 and 128 Mb of RAM, running Windows 98 Se, and I've tryed the program.
First, I searched for old bugs I've noticed before, and I found (so far) only the one about the texture of the Earth (but, as before, rezizing the image fix the problem) and that it wasn't possible to use the function that displays the dark side lights.
I've tryed the new visualization options, and found that the only resolution that works properly is 800x600 (the actual resolution of my screen).
When I choose a different reolution I see only my desktop flashing, but the menu is visible when I move the mouse at the top of the screen and I can return to previous setting safely.
Pressing Alt+Enter changes to fullscreen, but when I return to winowed mode pressing another time the keys I can see only the borders of the window and the menu.
In the previous version of Celestia, I could use the resolution of 1024x768 changing the settings of my screen before launching the program, and everithing was ok. With the new version I'm unable to see the content of the window when I change to 1024x768.
When I choose "goto ...." the visualization is not continous: the scene starts moving, stops, display the planet, stop another time, and finally visualize the motion continuously (it was similar to previous versions, but now is more evident).
I is possible that in some cases it's my computer fault, so I'm going to verify everything it's ok, as I think and hope.
It was really a pity...
Regards
Anarion9
I've just installed the newest version of Celestia on my machine, a Pentium II 350 MHz with a Matrox G200 and 128 Mb of RAM, running Windows 98 Se, and I've tryed the program.
First, I searched for old bugs I've noticed before, and I found (so far) only the one about the texture of the Earth (but, as before, rezizing the image fix the problem) and that it wasn't possible to use the function that displays the dark side lights.
I've tryed the new visualization options, and found that the only resolution that works properly is 800x600 (the actual resolution of my screen).
When I choose a different reolution I see only my desktop flashing, but the menu is visible when I move the mouse at the top of the screen and I can return to previous setting safely.
Pressing Alt+Enter changes to fullscreen, but when I return to winowed mode pressing another time the keys I can see only the borders of the window and the menu.
In the previous version of Celestia, I could use the resolution of 1024x768 changing the settings of my screen before launching the program, and everithing was ok. With the new version I'm unable to see the content of the window when I change to 1024x768.
When I choose "goto ...." the visualization is not continous: the scene starts moving, stops, display the planet, stop another time, and finally visualize the motion continuously (it was similar to previous versions, but now is more evident).
I is possible that in some cases it's my computer fault, so I'm going to verify everything it's ok, as I think and hope.
It was really a pity...
Regards
Anarion9