installing Blue Marble Next Generation 64K VT

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installing Blue Marble Next Generation 64K VT

Post #1by ourselfish » 15.12.2007, 04:29

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to install this earth version, and based on PC's capabilities is it even worth installing it? since its a 64k version and my PC is a couple of years old.
Ourselfish is using a Compaq Presario sr1536nx, with Windows XP Home 32bit, AMD 3200 processor, 512 MBs of Ram, a 160 GB hard drive, and
on board video graphics shared with system memory
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Post #2by Fenerit » 15.12.2007, 04:49

I've some dubts about the performances of your graphic card. There is need of powerful GPU's to run smoothly that textures.
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Re: installing Blue Marble Next Generation 64K VT

Post #3by cartrite » 15.12.2007, 04:50

ourselfish wrote:I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to install this earth version, and based on PC's capabilities is it even worth installing it? since its a 64k version and my PC is a couple of years old.

When you run Celestia, look at the help => openGL info tab and see what your card can handle. Mine looks like this.

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Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2
Version: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.19
Max simultaneous textures: 4
Max texture size: 8192

Point size range: 1.000000 - 63.375000
If your Max texture size is 2048 it should work. 4096 would be better though. As for Max simultaneous textures, the more the better. You may want to go into your bios at system start up and configure the shared video memory for as much as you can. You would probably be better off getting a video card though. Nvidia based cards seem to work best with Celestia.
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Post #4by cartrite » 15.12.2007, 05:15

If you do decide to try and install this texture, I would suggest taking the time to learn how to build one yourself. Here is a good start. It takes me about 30 minutes to build one. Just follow the instrucions from the second link.
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=18
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=46
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=70
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=44
Look into the "landmask" specmap I just created at my web site to build it with.
Or you can use watermask, the first version if you want.
http://celestialmatters.org.test.ibibli ... page_id=83
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Post #5by Reiko » 15.12.2007, 20:40

You do need a good card for those textures. My old X800XL has a really hard time handling it.
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