Stellarium - Page 2

supernova1965 (Warren) · #21 26-01-2010, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GAS747

i d/loaded it and used it last nite. first time with a telescope and was able to find planets/objects easy with this tool

one thing, iv got windows 7 it runs really slow. on a windows XP machine its awesome!

I am using it on Windows 7 and it runs super fast you need better Graphics drivers I think.

richardda1st (Richard) · #22 26-01-2010, 09:45 PM

Hi Barry, are you able to tell me the minimum system requirments for the new version (0.10.3). At the moment I am running 10.2 okay on a P111 500Mz 256M of ram and a 32M graphics (it's my own personal dinosaur).

Will I need to upgrade?

Thanks
Richard

Barrykgerdes · #23 26-01-2010, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by richardda1st

Hi Barry, are you able to tell me the minimum system requirments for the new version (0.10.3). At the moment I am running 10.2 okay on a P111 500Mz 256M of ram and a 32M graphics (it's my own personal dinosaur).

Will I need to upgrade?

Thanks
Richard

I am not sure
I had an earlier build of 0.10.3 that ran at about 5 fps on a similar machine but I ditched it last week so I can't test it. I think that you will need a 1000Mhz machine with 500MB of memory for a satisfactory run but it may work on less.
It runs great on my old HP 3Ghz pentium 4 750MB memory (I bought for $10) and an intel 82865 video card.
Barry

GAS747 (Paul) · #24 26-01-2010, 10:18 PM

drivers fixed the issue

Thx guys!!!

Barrykgerdes · #25 26-01-2010, 11:43 PM

A new version of stellarium could be released almost immediately. Watch www.stellarium.org This new version has introduced many new features.

Barry

Chillie (Henry) · #26 27-01-2010, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

A new version of stellarium could be released almost immediately. Watch www.stellarium.org This new version has introduced many new features.

Barry

Thanks for the heads up on the new release Barry.

JS · #27 27-01-2010, 06:47 AM

Will try the new one thanks

Barrykgerdes · #28 29-01-2010, 10:30 PM

It's out today. Ver 0.10.3

Barry

spacezebra (Petra) · #29 29-01-2010, 10:41 PM

I dont think that Stellarium likes my laptop - or vista, after a few minutes its starts to do disco lights!

Cheers Petra d.

Barrykgerdes · #30 30-01-2010, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by spacezebra

I dont think that Stellarium likes my laptop - or vista, after a few minutes its starts to do disco lights!

Cheers Petra d.

Sounds like a video driver problem.
What sort of computer and video is it.

Barry

richardda1st (Richard) · #31 30-01-2010, 12:27 PM

Installed 10.3 last night. Some problems for me.

Start up image mirrored top to bottom, and some object names also mirrored.

Cardinal points out of position, way out.

I installed the new version to Stellerium10.3 and kept 10.2, I will uninstall both versions and try again.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #32 31-01-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by spacezebra

I dont think that Stellarium likes my laptop - or vista, after a few minutes its starts to do disco lights!

Cheers Petra d.

Must need OPENGL otherwise not for you.

hulloleeds · #33 31-01-2010, 02:48 PM

Just a heads up. Stellarium is a 3d application and will run your average machine fairly hard as a result (as it just renders as many frames per second as it can). This means that your laptop battery will probably go pretty quickly.

To further reinforce this, I had a cpu fan go on one of my computers and whilst I could get away with medial use (very big heatsink), if I loaded stellarium, the machine crashed, due to heat

spacezebra (Petra) · #34 31-01-2010, 02:53 PM

Many thanks - I loaded Windows7 and now it is working like a dream.

Many thanks

Cheers Petra d.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Must need OPENGL otherwise not for you.

Barrykgerdes · #35 31-01-2010, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hulloleeds

Just a heads up. Stellarium is a 3d application and will run your average machine fairly hard as a result (as it just renders as many frames per second as it can). This means that your laptop battery will probably go pretty quickly.

To further reinforce this, I had a cpu fan go on one of my computers and whilst I could get away with medial use (very big heatsink), if I loaded stellarium, the machine crashed, due to heat

To conserve power you can redce the max frame rate in the config.ini file. 3-5 fps is fast enough for most use.

Barry

Barrykgerdes · #36 31-01-2010, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by spacezebra

Many thanks - I loaded Windows7 and now it is working like a dream.

Many thanks

Cheers Petra d.

I haven't tried Windows 7 yet but it goes better in Vista than XP

Barry

supernova1965 (Warren) · #37 31-01-2010, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

I haven't tried Windows 7 yet but it goes better in Vista than XP

Barry

It goes even better in Windows 7 than Vista