Stellarium problem ?

[vindictive666]

hi all

i start stellarium and it comes up with a color screen (it seems 2b testing something?going thru different stages ?) and it locks up my computer (using v1.0.2)

seems to go on forever Can anyone shed some light on this ?

it wont start :)

regards john

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi John

I asume you mean version 0.10.2. Is it a new installation or has it just stopped working.

If it is a new installation. What are the details of your computer. particularly the video display. Most of the video cards need the latest drivers to handle the improvements in OpenGl.

Has the program generated a log file, located in the same folder as the config.ini file in the documents and settings area or in root directory "log.txt" This may give some idea where the program has stalled.

Give me as much info as you can and i will try to direct you in the right direction.

Barry

[toryglen-boy]

Stellarium runs fine on my Netbook, with an Intel GMA450 display so thats where i use it most.

On my HTPC, with a 1Gb Radeon 4850, it runs, but the menu's are all screwed up and its only because i know where things are in the first instance that i can use it, the drivers are 2 weeks old.

On my 17" laptop, with an Nvidia 9600GT it doesnt run at all, it starts up and locks the entire machine, causing a restart, the drivers are a couple of weeks old.

at any rate, alot of people are using drivers now, that are way newer than version 10.2 of Stellarium.

I just dont think it likes some video adapters, and seems to thrive on the bear-bones intel stuff.

:(

[vindictive666]

thnks it is an new installation ive attached a copy of the log and config.ini

windoze xp pro 2.4 2gb ram
512mg nvidia gforce 7600gt runs just about anything cant go higher in graphic card driver those dont seem to support dual view in my case
178 version of drivers
as i mentioned it seems to be doing a graphic test like or similar that you can do with dxdiag :) trouble is it took over an hour and it was still going had to end it with taskmanager

regards john

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi John

That appears to be a problem with the video driver. Nvidia are usually good but I had to upgrade my stand by computer that has a Nvidia built in card when I loaded version 0.10.2. There was a later driver available and I installed it. Everything worked OK then. The driver needs a date later than September 2008

I checked your log file against a working installation and you have actually reached the last section where the Gui interface comes into play which points directly to the video driver being a problem.

There are acouple of bugs in 0.10.2 that have been corrected in the svn.

Barry

[vindictive666]

thanks Barry guess i will just have 2 get rid of it :)

regards john