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Earth looks all wonky

Posted: 05.12.2005, 05:02
by RanTen
Hi All,

I have installed Celestia at my work as well as at my home.

At work i have no problems.

However at home, the earth looks like this:
Image
(Click on image to see at actual size)


My system configuration at home is:
MS Win 98 SE

Intel Processor
Display Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1
512 Mb Ram

Samsung Syncmaster 753 Dfx 17" flatscreen

The only difference between my home machine and the one at work is that, at work i have an NVIDIA GE ForceFx 5200 graphic card.

Is the graphic card responsible for the warped Earth image?

Thanks

RanTen

Posted: 05.12.2005, 06:24
by Malenfant
Most likely it is the graphics card. Nvidia 5200 is more than capable of doing 3D stuff, but intel cards are somewhat lame.

Posted: 05.12.2005, 06:28
by RanTen
hmmm

means i have to spend some bucks for the card at home....

but another thing that i forgot to mention...all other planets/stars look just fine....

i havent as yet added the hubble/iss 3d models...lets see how they behave..

ranten