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The sticky messages bug is a well known problem. I'm afraid.

Lorfarius wrote:

Edit. I think Ive figured it out! Just managed to find a space station (and crash into its dock).

One thing I found out here was that posting a question in the forums often guarantees that you'll find the solution yorself within around half an hour!

TGHC wrote:

It's a female fan then

Or a feline one.

Thanks for the advice people. Of course, no sooner had I bought a new fan than the old one stopped making funny noises

Thanks for the advice, I've got my eyes on a replacement.

One other thing - does the state of the fan suggest the rest of the card is on its last legs too? There's little point replacing the fan if the rest of the card is likely to die soon...

This is nothing to do with Oolite, but as you're all such a helpful bunch I thought I'd post this question here. In the last week or so, the fan on my graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 5200) has started making funny noises, like it's labouring. It will start whirring loudly pretty much spontaneously, an...

In my day, we didn't have them on the BBC version, and we used to look down our collective nose at the Speccy users who couldn't dock without them. Ah yes, I remember well. Docking on the BBC version meant lining up on a black rectangle on a black background. It also meant lots of scraping the side...

LittleBear -you might be interested to know that davcefai and I found out that going into the Textures folder and changing hitsplanet.png to hitsplanet.PNG seemed to cure the problem.

davcefai - have pm-ed you the relevant code. I update regularly, I think that with Ubuntu 7.04, proprietary drivers like graphics cards are automatically updated.

Tried out the tarball but have had exactly the same problem :cry: No witchspace rings and I appear very close to the planet, no sun or other objects, although Shift+f reveals that it thinks there are 79 objects. As I was typing this, I had the game running. I just heard some ECMs go off, then I was ...

davcefai - I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 in Gnome. Where can I send the file to?

I'll give your tar a go when I have a mo, and get back to you.

nb Forgot to say - when the crash happened, I appeared very close to a planet. It was as if I'd just left a station rather than arrived at a withchpoint.

Deleting planetinfo.plist seems to cure the problem.

Well, it works fine on XP, it's just in Linux I have the problem. I have a dual boot, so same hardware. I jumped into the system and waited. The clock started running properly, and I found myself very close to the planet with altitude falling, so I think it must have finished populating. Still no co...

Made the change, now when I go to Beatle (still no witchspace rings) I see a sun, planet and clouds. Still no controls though, and no ships either. Have pasted a load of stuff from the terminal. Let me know if you want me to send it to you. Edit - removed superfluous OXPs to make it run quicker, inc...

It happens when I go after the "Fair Wind". I'd done the other missions in XP and copied everything across, so I don't know what happens with them. When I keep the terminal open, the debugs pop up like crazy as soon as I jump into the system. nb I found two .png's in planetinfo.plist, whic...