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Hi, yesterday I downloaded and installed celestia-win32-1.3.0.exe.
When I launch Celestia, it just breaks down after few seconds.

I have a GeForce 2 MX/MX 400, with nVidia driver 45.23 (newest) and DirectX 9.0b (OpenGL uses DirectX low level API). Current resolution 1600x1200x32 bit palette. My OS is Windows 2000 Pro UK SP2

The program seems otherwise to be very great. Very few times I succeded using it in 30 seconds before breakdown.

I would be happy for some hints

Regards Lars

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DrWatson log (little part of it):

Application exception occurred:
App: (pid=1160)
When: 8/24/2003 @ 15:30:04.971
Exception number: c0000090
()

*----> System Information <----*
User Name: Administrator
Number of Processors: 1
Processor Type: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6
Windows 2000 Version: 5.0
Current Build: 2195
Service Pack: 2
Current Type: Uniprocessor Free

*----> Task List <----*
0 Idle.exe
8 System.exe
168 SMSS.exe
196 CSRSS.exe
216 WINLOGON.exe
244 SERVICES.exe
256 LSASS.exe
436 svchost.exe
464 spoolsv.exe
492 msdtc.exe
608 CDANTSRV.exe
624 Ctsvccda.exe
636 DKService.exe
652 svchost.exe
692 nvsvc32.exe
720 regsvc.exe
676 mstask.exe
792 tcpsvcs.exe
812 SNMP.exe
840 stisvc.exe
884 VetMsgNT.exe
896 vsmon.exe
912 WinMgmt.exe
928 MsPMSPSv.exe
948 svchost.exe
968 mqsvc.exe
1068 explorer.exe
1188 devldr32.exe
1420 LVComS.exe
1460 CTNotify.exe
1492 ahqtb.exe
1472 winampa.exe
1548 VetTray.exe
1216 cisvc.exe
1560 HPLamp.exe
1568 rundll32.exe
1284 Macros.exe
1180 Mediadet.exe
1516 zapro.exe
1384 1stClock.exe
1592 wuauclt.exe
1316 taskmgr.exe
1392 TOTALCMD.exe
148 IEXPLORE.exe
1160 celestia.exe
1344 DRWTSN32.exe
0 _Total.exe

Hi, someone please help, I would be so happy.

Best regards Lars

Lars,

Please download Celestia v1.3.1 prerelease 9 to see if this is a problem which has been fixed. The prereleases are available at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/


[added slightly later]

Be sure to install the new version of Celestia into a different directory. Installing a new version "on top of" an old version often causes problems.

Hi Selden, thanks for your tip. Unfortunately it didn't help.
I installed C 131p9 in another directory, started it and after few seconds I had the same error :

Application exception occurred:
App: (pid=1572)
When: 8/28/2003 @ 08:03:55.070
Exception number: c0000090

If the entire DrWatson log (approx 300 kb) are of interest I would be happy to email it directly to you.

Regards Lars

It did help me though. thanks for the tip. the only (small) downside is that the default goto distance seems to have got closer. is this adjustable ? Earth now overfills my screen by default.

Lars,

Sorry, I don't do any of the coding, and don't understand the dump files.
I'm just an experienced user. One of the developers would have to investigate the problem.

Knight-gkla,

The newest versions of Celestia try to show a more accurate vield of view. They try to display a field of view which is proportional to the amount of space actually occupied within your own field of view by the window on your screen. When you run Celestia in a window on desktop, the field of view now is much smaller than the field of view shown when you run Celestia in full-screen mode. Unfortunately, even the full-screen field of view is slightly smaller than the previous default of 45 degrees.

Unfortunately, and I have to consider this a bug, the default distance after a GoTo hasn't been adjusted to compensate for this change in the field of view.

Selden,

The, how can I come in contact with one of the developers then?

Regards Lars

They read the forum.
You have to be patient.

For info to the developers then, below is my OpenGL info from Celestia

Regards Lars

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Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE
Version: 1.4.0
Max simultaneous textures: 2
Max texture size: 2048

Supported Extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging
GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_ARB_point_parameters
GL_ARB_texture_compression
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
GL_ARB_texture_env_add
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_program
GL_ARB_window_pos
GL_S3_s3tc
GL_EXT_abgr
GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_color
GL_EXT_blend_minmax
GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
GL_EXT_fog_coord
GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_packed_pixels
GL_EXT_paletted_texture
GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_EXT_rescale_normal
GL_EXT_secondary_color
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
GL_EXT_texture_cube_map
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
GL_EXT_texture_env_add
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
GL_EXT_texture_lod
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
GL_EXT_texture_object
GL_EXT_vertex_array
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_KTX_buffer_region
GL_NV_blend_square
GL_NV_fence
GL_NV_fog_distance
GL_NV_light_max_exponent
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil
GL_NV_pixel_data_range
GL_NV_point_sprite
GL_NV_register_combiners
GL_NV_texgen_reflection
GL_NV_texture_env_combine4
GL_NV_texture_rectangle
GL_NV_vertex_array_range
GL_NV_vertex_array_range2
GL_NV_vertex_program
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
GL_NVX_ycrcb
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
GL_SGIS_multitexture
GL_SGIS_texture_lod
GL_WIN_swap_hint
WGL_EXT_swap_control

your set up seems the same as mine. i'm running XP on a PIII and the new pre9 works fine.