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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
These figures are based on XP SP2 and 3 or Vista SP1. Using Intel and Gforce graphics as well as the SiS. They should hold for Windows 2000 SP4 but earlier versions don't always work
Stellarium 0.10.1 runs quite steadily on a pentium 4 with 512 MB of main memory and an integrated SiS video card with 32MB memory. You do need openGl drivers for the video card. Make sure you have the latest versions. There are some problems with earlier OpenGl drivers.
With a 1024 x 768 display the frame rate on my installation is 14 Fps. Earlier versions of Stellarium ran at up to 25 Fps. At a screen size of 1680 x 1050 the display slows considerably down to 6 Fps and If I load star catalogues 7 or 8 down to about 4 Fps. More video memory should speed up the frame rate.
To load all 8 star catalogues even with mmap loading needs about 1.5GB of RAM
With the minimum RAM I have available the screen sometimes locks up if I click on some areas of the loading screen while the program is loading but once the program has loaded it is quite stable for me. This is a video memory problem.
Barry
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Thanks for the replies, guys. I am a bit surprised; as I said I'm running a Centrino 1.7GHz with 1 gig of RAM. It could indeed be the graphics chip which has only 64 megs. Nothing I can do about that, though!
Any way to limit the frame rate?
To be honest, all I want is a cleaner Windows-based version of what Skyglobe does... in fact, a DOS version would be fine, too.
BTW, Barry, are you saying that if I get version 0.9.1 it should run without crashing?
- DSB