Oolite Bulletins

Seems to be a possible reason - it will be interesting to see what happens with the next release.

I only found out about Oolite yesterday but I used to play Elite on a BBC Micro back in the dark ages (well grey ages).

It is really fun to see an updated take on an old friend

Just a shot in the dark, but this has resolved some problems with NVidia drivers and, you never know, it might just work for you as well: Start the game with the -nosplash switch. Run it from Start->Run... and add the switch there. Not promising anything, but I hope it helps. It would also help if ...