Hi all,
I posted
my issues with 10.1 to the Stellarium forum - basically my MSI Wind displayed a black background with a black popup where I could only read the title bar with a Microsoft Visual C++ error. I read the posts on this forum and checked that my (almost brand new) MSI Wind had the latest Intel graphics card drivers.
A link to version 10.2 on this thread solved all the problems on my MSI Wind. A netbook is a very practical way of running this and I'm now happily running Stellarium on my Wind (15% overclocked) at a steady 15 to 16 frames per second with a 60 degree FOV and the 'Increase Time Speed' option advanced so that 1 minute of proper time is displayed in 1 second.
Tonight I'll try it on my Dell dual core Inspiron (Vista) where 10.1 ran, albeit sluggishly, at a modest 0.03 frames per second.
Stellarium is a great product so let's hope this sub release fixes the issues that many loyal users have reported.
Edit: Vista now happily running at 9 to 10 frames per second (in 1920 x 1200 resolution), with a pretty ordinary laptop graphics card.