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Stars and nebulae use the glow texture

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I just installed 1.72.2 on my old Windows XP laptop (Pentium 4, Radeon 9700) and all the stars and stellar background images are various rotations of the glow texture. I had a similar problem on my new Vista laptop (currently back with the manufacturer) where the Trumble used the glow texture instead of the trumblekit, but that went away after a reboot. This problem is persistent. I'm using a savegame transferred over from the other laptop, and have used 1.72.2 on three different machines. Only one machine shows this behaviour.
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all the stars and stellar background images are various rotations of the glow texture
glow texture ??
any chance of a screenshot ( or a link to )
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Re: Stars and nebulae use the glow texture

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PhilHibbs wrote:
Only one machine shows this behaviour.
Let me guess: It's the only machine which has an ATI graphics card installed.

The problem is, that current ATI drivers for Windows are NOT OpenGL compliant and feature MANY display bugs.

I finally sent my 4870x2 back to the vendor as it didn't have advertised properties and used the refund to get a GTX295 (nVidia, and really, Oolite doesn't need such power-cards!) - and everything is fine now. I also had many problems with ships not being shown properly, some ships NEVER were shown properly with my ATI cards...and now with nVidia everything is fine. It's a massively different playing experience!

Aside from that, my constant crashes and graphics errors with Crysis now also are history. Stupid company...selling high end equipment and then delivering such "quality" drivers without fixing them.

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Yes, it's ATI. It's only a minor problem though so I'll live with it.
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Post by Solas »

If its a minor problem then its not this one

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... a&start=15
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