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Celestia - Explore the universe
I had the same problem on my G4 1.25 GHz running 10.3.9 (and my system is obsessively clean too). The readme file contains a troubleshooting section with the suggestion to remove the "#" before a certain line in the config file (I won't pretend to undestand the programming technicalities behind this)...I followed these instructions and the program now runs perfectly for me.
Celestia - Explore the universe
This comes from some ATI graphic cards not understanding a specific OpenGL extension. If you uncomment that line, you disable the use of that extension (for a small performance penalty) and it works.
Celestia - Explore the universe
While it's true that the lead developer is employed at NVIDIA, on the Mac the situation is a bit different and some NVIDIA-specific render paths don't work even on NV30+ cards. And while it's true that very recent cards are obviously much better for Celestia use, the crashing bug is due to a very specific bug in the driver for the ATI Radeon 9000/9200 cards and has nothing to do with your video card being too old; for example ATI Rage cards don't lock up. In fact, recent video cards still cannot perform OpenGL 2.0 rendering correctly on OS X while on Windows it's beautiful *sigh*
Celestia - Explore the universe
Thanks for the hint. I took out the # on the "ignoreGLE" line and it works ok for me as well. |
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