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Originally Posted by byronpaul
Hi all,
does anybody have Stellarium running on a Windows 7 64bit system?
Can Stellarium run on 64bit system, or does it have to be installed and run in Windows XP Mode on a virtual machine?
I have tried to install and run it in Windows XP Mode, but it is failing to start-up. I tried this as I'll need to be in XP Mode (32bit) to use LPI & DSI cameras.
Not sure where to go now ..... 
Any ideas???? |
Stellarium runs quite well on a windows 7 64 bit ultimate machine but it runs in 32 bit mode. When using the installer the default address is program files. This needs to be set to program files (x86) mode to get it into the correct folder.
The windows compiler "Qt creator" does not work in 64 bit mode. However if you install the windows virtual machine from microsoft you can also get a version of WindowsXP to install in it (500MB download). This virtual version of Windows XP is rather primative but Qt creator works well in it. Howevr Stellarium does not run very well in this virtual machine because the virtual screen is only S3 and can't be changed.
A more satisfactory way is to use VMwares virtual machine. Then install your original Windows XP from the distribution disk. This gives a version of windows that is far more versatile than the free windows XP.
Stellarium then will run nicely in the virtual machine as well as the X86
machine. In fact the VMware virtual framework will do anything that XP would do on the old 32bit machines. It will even run a version of the Apple Mac.
Barry