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I am running Cellistia on an Xp machine and Earth has a white ocean. How do I fix that?

astro-jim wrote:I am running Cellistia on an Xp machine and Earth has a white ocean. How do I fix that?

Surely not with the official Celestia 1.3.2 distribution!
Many thousands of users run the official 1.3.2 Celestia distribution on XP machines without observing a white ocean...If indeed true, you should check also other OpenGL applications, since then I suspect your installation is filthy...

What /precisely/ did you modify? Which Celestia distribution do you install? Which graphics card, which driver?

Without this detailed info, your question sounds analogous to this one:

"Hey man, the motor of my car stopped working. How can I fix it?"

Bye Fridger

Well, excuse me - for not being an expert....
I am using version 1.3.2.0 of celestia. I ran the same program on a lesser machine with win2000 with no problem, except speed. I just wondered if someone else experienced this problem with Xp or is it something else. Obviously there is no obvious answer. Thanks anyway.

astro-jim wrote:Well, excuse me - for not being an expert....
I am using version 1.3.2.0 of celestia. I ran the same program on a lesser machine with win2000 with no problem, except speed. I just wondered if someone else experienced this problem with Xp or is it something else. Obviously there is no obvious answer. Thanks anyway.

Do you have an ATI card? Did you changed a render path (ctrl-v on your keyboard) to OpenGL 2.0?
ATI cards have some problem running Celestia in this mode - sometimes Earth looks like giant disco-ball, sometimes oceans are totaly white as you described.

Astro-jim,

Please read the "Preliminary User's FAQ" which is a "sticky" thread near the top of the Celestia Users Forum.

It's first few Q/As explain what you need to do in order to help locate the problem.

Thank you. I will try these. BTW - Celestia will be great for teaching some astronomy concepts in my course - if I ever get it to work right. Great program!

Render path...THAT WAS IT!! Thank you MK.