Right on, I thought that might be the case, which is why I said "if that makes a difference" - I'm a little greenCommander McLane wrote:The lighting system should work regardless of shader settings. 'Shaders' and 'shadows' have nothing to do with each other, despite the word similarity.
.As an update to my last post, there is one strange thing going on with Celestia. I noticed the stars are quite dark, and instead of being blinded out as I approach the sun, they become more visible and brighter.
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. I guess what I'm going to have to do is keep playing around - I did ultimately got my new machine's issues ironed out, so I'm sure eventually I'll get it working. And, at the end of the day, getting it to run on that computer is really more so that my wife can get on the new computer and play her games, while I can still play Oolite on the Dell - but I can find something else to do for the meantime 
. I will look into just how to do that, but, might these be two issues be related?
). It is my understanding, though, that one can still install a discreet video card on a machine with integrated graphics; I'm sure I can find one for that old thing that will make it behave more nicely. Anyway, that seems to me about the only fix I can think of at this point - but it is a little disappointing that I had the same version of Oolite running reasonably on that machine with Windows XP and half the memory. I wasn't using the generic monitor, which is why I titled this topic with "generic monitor" in it - but I'm not necessarily convinced that that is the problem. However, other than the operating system (which is a major difference, but only in the most positive of means (for example, on the new computer: Mint w/Cinnamon DE basic RAM usage=200MB while Windows 7 basic RAM=1000MB)) and an improvement in RAM, the monitor is the only thing that's different about the configuration.