I've been watching the commentary on the latest version of Stellarium. And it is very mixed. Some are reporting significant problems, crashes, bad frame rates, flicker, poor font rendering, and so on. I'm hesistant to use it. But then, others claimed good results, nearly instantaneous startup, good new features like the oculars plug-in...Yesterday, on a computer I don't care too much about, I downloaded 0.10.3. Fired it up. And noted the rapid startup. Wow. Wiggled the mouse to the bottom left corner of the screen to pop up the menus. They appeared with familiar icons. But I too found the font rendering poor, a little hard to read. Activated the Locations panel, typed my city, and went to close--BOOM. Crash. With a Windows bug report send prompt. Oh. That's not good.
Relaunched it, expecting more sudden implosions but it was fine. Successfully changed my location. Then I noticed it getting slower, sluggy. I watched the frame rate plummet before my eyes. When I recalled a recent suggestion from the forums. I changed the option in the MAIN section of the CONFIG.INI file from it's true setting as follows:
use_glshaders = falseNow it works well. Next up: build oculars for the family telescopes and eyepieces...
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