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Windows players whose ATI video cards display stars and nebulae as ugly translucent squares there seems to be an OpenGL driver error in ATI's EXT_texture_lod_bias implementation. this has not been fixed in Catalyst 9.1 drivers. ( edit .. ) or 9.2 edit: Ahruman has made a good code workaround for Ool...

install to C:\Oolite or something similar. C:\Program Files and other locations ( incl subdirs ) are protected through file virtualization. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.uac.aspx in particular just after .. second screenshot .. Figure 2 Task Manager shows virtualization status ...

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try version 1.65 in a new install directory ( oolite165 or similar ).

architecture difference means it might work for you.

if it does .. you'll have something to do .. and the programmers another clue.

had you installed any new software just before problem ? sometimes programs silently disallow access ( firewall, antivirus, Windows UAC ). you could also try right-clicking oolite destop icon and 'run as Administrator' the first part of stderr (language locale) is harmless. the second is a standard ...

un-install oolite
REBOOT
rename remaining install directory

download a fresh copy of Oolite-1.72.1-test.exe
http://prdownload.berlios.de/oolite-lin ... 1-test.exe

re-install oolite and run

thanks a_c I installed http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/gnustep-system-0.19.2-setup.exe http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/gnustep-core-0.19.2-setup.exe SDL_mixer.h was missing from Local_20081118.zip, used version from local.zip in wiki. that sorted the p...

I have followed the procedure for building on Windows as described on http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Running_Oolite-Windows using the specified GNUStep versions. using make and alternatively make debug=no however the oolite executable fails with the message .. the procedure entry point __objc_clas...

would coding this approach work for POV hat support ( cross platform )

SDL_JoystickEventState
http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdljoys ... state.html

SDL_JoyHatEvent
http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdljoyhatevent.html

I also experienced texture corruption on ships + stations which was corrected permanently by replacing libpng13.dll in oolite directory with a renamed libpng-1.2.34-bin\bin\libpng3.dll from libpng-1.2.34-1-bin.zip http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=16183 I str...

same thing here .. OpenGL ( using graphics card driver ) and Vista Aero don't mix in a window. to turn off Aero .. control panel > personalization > window colour and appearance > select colour scheme other than Vista Aero. or for even more settings control panel > system > advanced system settings ...