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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.

I've some dubts about the performances of your graphic card. There is need of powerful GPU's to run smoothly that textures.

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. 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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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
cartrite

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