10.4 unusable due to lines on screen

Both 0.10.3 and 0.10.4 have rendering problems on some graphics cards. This was caused by the introduction of OpenGL 2 vertex shaders - it seems that some graphics cards don't support shaders, or the support is buggy.

Please, try the following: in Stellarium's configuration file, add the following two lines under "[main]":
use_glshaders = false
use_qpaintenginegl2 = false

(On Windows XP, Stellarium's configuration file (config.ini) is easily accessible through a short-cut in Stellarium's folder in the Start menu.)

Save the changes to the file and start Stellarium. If after disabling OpenGL2 you experience problems with unreadable text, you can try downloading this community submitted patch:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/525995/comments/21

I have already tried making those changes...when I reloaded stellarium,
the ini file still thinks it was 10.2?
And the changes you recommended were in there as well.
How do I delete everything from the registry that has to do with
Stellarium?
I suspect that might be the problem.
Thanks
Stan
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:11:37 -0000 Bogdan Marinov
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> Your question #105007 on Stellarium changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+question/105007
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Bogdan Marinov proposed the following answer:
> Both 0.10.3 and 0.10.4 have rendering problems on some graphics
> cards.
> This was caused by the introduction of OpenGL 2 vertex shaders - it
> seems that some graphics cards don't support shaders, or the support
> is
> buggy.
>
> Please, try the following: in Stellarium's configuration file, add
> the following two lines under "[main]":
> use_glshaders = false
> use_qpaintenginegl2 = false
>
> (On Windows XP, Stellarium's configuration file (config.ini) is
> easily
> accessible through a short-cut in Stellarium's folder in the Start
> menu.)
>
> Save the changes to the file and start Stellarium. If after
> disabling OpenGL2 you experience problems with unreadable text, you
> can try downloading this community submitted patch:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/525995/comments/21
>
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I am attaching a screen capture from my laptop with stellarium 10.4
running.
Stan
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:36:21 -0000 stan346
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> Your question #105007 on Stellarium changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+question/105007
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> I have already tried making those changes...when I reloaded
> stellarium,
> the ini file still thinks it was 10.2?
> And the changes you recommended were in there as well.
> How do I delete everything from the registry that has to do with
> Stellarium?
> I suspect that might be the problem.
> Thanks
> Stan
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:11:37 -0000 Bogdan Marinov
> <email address hidden> writes:
> > Your question #105007 on Stellarium changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+question/105007
> >
> > Status: Open => Answered
> >
> > Bogdan Marinov proposed the following answer:
> > Both 0.10.3 and 0.10.4 have rendering problems on some graphics
> > cards.
> > This was caused by the introduction of OpenGL 2 vertex shaders -
> it
> > seems that some graphics cards don't support shaders, or the
> support
> > is
> > buggy.
> >
> > Please, try the following: in Stellarium's configuration file, add
>
> > the following two lines under "[main]":
> > use_glshaders = false
> > use_qpaintenginegl2 = false
> >
> > (On Windows XP, Stellarium's configuration file (config.ini) is
> > easily
> > accessible through a short-cut in Stellarium's folder in the
> Start
> > menu.)
> >
> > Save the changes to the file and start Stellarium. If after
> > disabling OpenGL2 you experience problems with unreadable text,
> you
> > can try downloading this community submitted patch:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/525995/comments/21
> >
> > --
> > If this answers your question, please go to the following page to
>
> > let us
> > know that it is solved:
> >
>
https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+question/105007/+confirm?answer
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As far as I know, Stellarium doesn't write to the registry. All settings are stored in the configuration file. If it reports that the version is 0.10.2, then it most probably has been left over from the previous version of Stellarium. (There's a bug in 0.10.4 where the configuration file reports the version as 0.10.3.)

You can delete the old configuration file and let Stellarium re-create it with the 0.10.4 default configuration file. On Windows XP, the path to the folder that contains it is something like C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Application Data\Stellarium.

Then, please make again the changes to the configuration file, run Stellarium, and copy here the contents of Stellarium's log file. (On Windows, it is accessible through a shortcut in Stellarium's Start menu folder. Look for "Last run log".)

 Okay, I deleted the old config.ini file and let it make a new one.
Then added the lines to the [Main] section. Still
the same results. Maybe worse.
Here is the text of the log file:

2010-03-21T15:49:43
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Qt runtime version: 4.6.2
Qt compilation version: 4.6.2
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 495 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 69%
Processor speed: 1603 MHz
Processor name: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
 -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.4 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Fabien Chereau et al ]
 -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/Stan/Application
Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "C:\Documents and Settings\Stan\Application Data\Stellarium"
  1 . "."
Attempting to use an existing older config file.
Config file is: "C:\Documents and Settings\Stan\Application
Data\Stellarium/config.ini"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL"
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\Stan\Local
Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture
"western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "./stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...
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I'm afraid I can't offer any other advice. You can download any of the previous releases of Stellarium for Windows here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-win32/