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Chris?

On my system (see below) the program takes sooo long to initialize and to open the display that by the time I can see Io (my starting location), the logo has disappeared. Can you cause it to remain on the screen for just a bit longer? This is probably just due to my machine, but I thought you'd like to know about it. This may be why others haven't seen the logo too.

Also, I'm encountering *lots* of strangeness with the stars display. If I am using the "fuzzy disk" option, sometimes all of the stars will simply disappear from my screen. At other times, they will assume different colors. If I have just looked at Mars, for example, then move on to jupiter or some other location, the fuzzy disks appear red. If I'm moving from Uranus to Venus, they'll assume a blue appearance.

When I simply use the "Stars as Point" option, none of this occurs.

Just thought I'd let you know.

Thanks again for the *stunning* program. My wife thinks I'm chatting with a girlfriend now since I spend so much time on the Shatters Net Forum.

Take care, Bob

Hello Bob
There are three things i have found to slow down the startup of Celestia

1: starting Celestia in full screen, rather than windowed.

2: using the large stars database file (stars.dat 2072873 stars )

3: using large textures for the planets read by the start.cel

Does any of these apply to you ?

Darkmiss wrote:Hello Bob
There are three things i have found to slow down the startup of Celestia

1: starting Celestia in full screen, rather than windowed.

2: using the large stars database file (stars.dat 2072873 stars )

3: using large textures for the planets read by the start.cel

Does any of these apply to you ?

Paul,

I'm running Celestia in a maximized Window. I am using the 2.68 Meg stars.dat file, and all of my textures are at the 1024x512 resolution.

I'll play with it some more to see if I can improve the speed. Thanks for the tips.

Take care, Bob