Stellarium crash on XP

[supernova1965]

Hi Barry or anyone that can help:question:

Wondered if you could help with this problem I have a compaq presario V6000AU laptop with with a AMD Turionx2 64bit with Nvidia Graphics and 4 gig of ram but only running XP Pro 32bit and Stellarium crashes out after about half and hour. I have included the error file that microsoft produced if you have any ideas I would appreciate your help. It is the new version and I have it on my Desktop running Win7 without a problem. I am confident that it must be a problem with my setup as I have had no problems with it on my other machine.

Thanks

Warren

[stephenb]

Warren, The same has occured to me from the first time I installed it, on 3 machines at home (2 desktops and 1 laptop). My desktop has had a new installation of XP Home and SP3. I suspect my issue is related to the graphics card. I have gone back to the previous version for now.

[fhub]

Well, this 0.10.3 seems really to be completely unstable!
A quote from the Stellarium Sourceforge forum:

Exactly the same happens for me, but I have WinXP/SP3 and a ATI graphics card, so the problem must be in Stellarium itself and not in the ATI graphics card/driver as always stated!
I post this here because I can't write in the Stellarium forum.

[supernova1965]

Well its completely stable in my desktop actually it flies and never crashes my desktop is running Win7 64bit ultimate I can't find anything wrong with it on this machine even when watching digital HDTV at the same time as I am checking out the positions of everything I can't see atm because of cloud:D. And it was working fine while I was not doing something ie' not moving the mouse it was when I was zooming in on things that it crashed it was working fine on the laptop until I installed the Beta of Office 2010 so I am going to uninstall that to see if it is causing some strange conflict.

[stephenb]

Just to clarify my issue. It starts up fine, then after approx 15-20 seconds of scrolling around the sky or zooming, that's when it crashes. I am confident it is not my PC or graphics card as I have the latest drivers for my NVidia card.

[mithrandir]

Your observation makes no sense to me. You have ATI video, so expect OpenGL problems.

ATI's support of OpenGL has always been poor.

0.10.3 has not crashed on me on my T400 with XP Pro and Intel GMA video, or on my eM250 with XP Home and Intel 945 video.

0.10.3 on Linux with ATI video is another matter altogether. It lasts about 1 second.

It also seems that the race to keep up with the bleeding edge version of Qt so it will run on Macs is not doing Stellarium any favours.

Try an NVidia card and see it it makes any difference.

[fhub]

Can't you read???
I've quoted another user with NVidia graphics having the same problem!

Indeed a very good idea for a notebook! :lol:

[supernova1965]

Way to many people have absolutely no problem with Stellarium for anyone to automatically blame the program when the same code works great for most users it is illogical to say its the software as apposed to the more likely problem being the hardware or a conflict with other software. I think that people easily forget that it is supplied free of charge and ignore the need to have good drivers I have found that the best drivers are not always the latest drivers most problems people have are with the Graphics drivers. It's about time people thought twice before rubbishing a program provided free. Quoting two instances of people having problems with Stellarium having problems does not seem to be a fair and even treatment when the majority of uses have no issues with the program.

[casstony]

It crashes on my XP Home/Nvidia 7600GS computer. I'm very impatient with computer problems though so I haven't worked at trying to figure out the problem. If computer says no, I use a map - far less argumentative.

[fhub]

Two? Sorry, I can only laugh!
Look at this forum here, the Stellarium Sourceforge forum, the bug tracker, the Stellarium Wiki pages etc. etc. .....

But I see: it makes no sense to post here with all the Stellarium freaks who just don't see or believe those lots of problems MANY users have with this software.

Goodbye!

[supernova1965]

I never said I didn't believe that you were having problems I just don't agree with your assumption that it is automatically the software at fault. Any way I hope you resolve your problems to do that you need to talk with the makers of the software and to do that takes a good relationship with them attacking the program doesn't accomplish this. Hope you are well and Happy and have a good life. I wish you all the best :hi::welcome: