Stellarium text problem

[Dotan Cohen]

On 06/02/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> What about switching Stellarium to work in a window rather than work as
> >> full screen?  Surely if you then click outside of that window, you can
> >> use your window manager's hotkeys.
>
>
> Dotan Cohen:
> > Thanks. The program is much more usable that way. But wow does it slow
> > down the system. I've got 2 GB RAM on this CoreDuo2 machine (2 gHz)
> > and it cannot handle it.
>
> I don't know why it's so intensive.  I've got it on a 500 MHz Celeron,
> with 384 megs of RAM, using an i810 on-board graphics chipset, running
> FC4, and it's quite nippy.  I can grab the sky with the mouse, and whiz
> things around.
>
> Yet, on a 1.6 GHz P4, with 512 megs of RAM, and a SIS on-board graphics
> chipset, running FC5, it's painfully slow.  It didn't help putting in a
> NVideo graphics card, whether using the Xorg or the nvidia driver.  And
> it's just as bad on FC6.
>
> In both case, it's using the latest version of Stellarium in the
> respective Fedora Core repos.
>

It seems that Stellarium's speed is an inverse function to processor
speed. I'll dig up an old 386 with 32 MB RAM. It'll probably fly on
that thing. :)

Dotan Cohen

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