A screenshot from 'my' Celestia - what's wrong with it?

[Tom Rainy]

Hello to all!

I have installed Celestia on my computer and the pictures it shows are totally nuts:


What can be the reason? How can it be fixed?

My computer:
Acer Aspire 1703SC_2.6 Notebook
17" SXGA TFT LCD Screen
Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz
512 MB DDR-SDRAM
80 GB 5400rpm Ultra ATA/100 HDD

Graphic Card:
SiS M650 Rev 00
DAC-Type Internal
Memory 64 MB
SiS Compatible VGA
Biosinformation 1.10.9o

I really appreciate all your replies.

Tom

[don]

Howdy Tom,

The first thing to do would be to read through the preliminary User's FAQ at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2291&sid=19c17b85198ce59fde97b737f1e60e74. Second, would be to read through the "Display Problems" thread at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491.

If none of the suggestions in those documents help, then let us know what OS / version you are running and what version of Celestia you have. The last "final" version was 1.3.1, and the current pre-release version is 1.3.2 pre7.

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

I have no clue what's wrong, but it looks kinda cool

[Guest]

Howdy Tom,

The first thing to do would be to read through the preliminary User's FAQ at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2291&sid=19c17b85198ce59fde97b737f1e60e74. Second, would be to read through the "Display Problems" thread at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491.

If none of the suggestions in those documents help, then let us know what OS / version you are running and what version of Celestia you have. The last "final" version was 1.3.1, and the current pre-release version is 1.3.2 pre7.

Hi Don!:D

Thank you for your reply! The Ctrl-V-thing did it. On setting "basic" it works perfecly, but without shadows. On "multitexture" it shows false shadows (Saturn got three on the rings, one is right, but there are two left and right from the planet on the rings:roll:), and on "OpenGL" I have those crazy sights like seen above. If I'd like to run it with Multitexture or OpenGL, what can I do? My operating system is Windows XP, and the Celestia version is 1.3.1. Now I'm eager to see if you can solve this problem.

[Tom Rainy]

Guest!
It's me, who forgot to log in. *tzk tzk*

Tom

[Tom Rainy]

I have no clue what's wrong, but it looks kinda cool

You have to see what Saturn does! The rings are stretched to an infinite point. It sort of looks like a comet. Weird.

Tom

[don]

If I'd like to run it with Multitexture or OpenGL, what can I do? My operating system is Windows XP, and the Celestia version is 1.3.1. Now I'm eager to see if you can solve this problem.

Howdy Tom,

Glad you can at least get it displaying properly in Basic mode.

The modes you are able to use depends solely on your graphics card (or chip) and it's support for OpenGL. The first thing I would do would be to search out the latest drivers from the manufacturer of your graphics chip/card (not sure which it is). Newer drivers support more OpenGL features.

If it is in fact a built-in chip, instead of an AGP card, AND newer drivers don't help, then the second thing would be to buy an nVidia graphics card. The best model for you depends on your budget (look for another recent thread discussing this). I say nVidia because that is what Celestia runs best on.

Hope this helps.