Linux or Windows?

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Linux or Windows?

Post #1by zeraeiro » 06.12.2006, 02:01

Is there anyway to know if Celestia runs better on Linux or in Windows? Is there anyway to benchmark it? What about different distros in Linux?

Thanks in advance,

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Post #2by Fightspit » 09.12.2006, 14:21

I think it is the same thing under Windows or Linux and the most important to improve Celestia's performance is to have a good configuration in your computer including processor, memory, graphic card and others.
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Post #3by John Van Vliet » 09.12.2006, 22:11

well i do belive that on fedora6 (linux) it runs faster .

because almost all programs do run faster on a linux box
But for my exp . win XP and a dule boot Fedora-6 ,Celestia dose run faster on a linux box
Aprox. 5 to 10 f/sec.

with a nivida GeForce -mx-400 card [OLD]
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Post #4by JimHarvie » 10.12.2006, 21:33

zeraeiro wrote:Is there anyway to know if Celestia runs better on Linux or in Windows? Is there anyway to benchmark it? What about different distros in Linux?

Thanks in advance,

Jos?© Raeiro
Hey Zeraeiro, didn't you mean Apple, Linux or Window? :P :wink:
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Post #5by Johaen » 10.12.2006, 23:47

This post has intrigued me. I'm currently DLing the Fedora Core Linux and I'll try and test out Celestia once I have it installed on a 3rd partition I'll have to make (the 1st being XP and the 2nd being Vista RC1).
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Post #6by ElecMoHwk » 13.12.2006, 16:04

I'm setting up a Debian machine to run Celestia on... I'll let folks know if I get any kind of hard testing data on the speed comparisons... Right now I can't get it working properly with Vista RC1 but I'm trying that too so I can compare on all platforms (cept mac cause they suck!!! j/k... I don't own one, yet!)
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Post #7by zeraeiro » 27.12.2006, 19:39

john Van Vliet wrote:well i do belive that on fedora6 (linux) it runs faster .

because almost all programs do run faster on a linux box
But for my exp . win XP and a dule boot Fedora-6 ,Celestia dose run faster on a linux box
Aprox. 5 to 10 f/sec.

with a nivida GeForce -mx-400 card [OLD]


How did you measure the f/sec?

Thanks :)
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Post #8by John Van Vliet » 30.12.2006, 06:15

f/sec are based on subjective evdence it sems to run faster
iss is less jercky in orbit on fedora6 than win xp
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