Oh bugger.....!

All old releases are available from sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/

Thanks Matthew, done that, downloaded 10.5.

Now, it will not even load up at all !

I am baffled now. I havent the foggest whats wrong now.

andy

Was a log file created? If so, please attach it. If not, was any error message displayed?

oops, I meant "needs info" as the status, not answered.

It says ; stellarium has stopped working

It then says windows is closing it down.

By the way, what is a log file and how do i do attach it ?

Log file is in the User Data Directory (How to find User Data Directory for your OS read here: http://www.stellarium.org/doc/head/fileStructure.html) and his name is "log.txt"

Ok, have clicked the link Alexander, now what ?

I am someone whom knows nothing much about pc's here !

thanks

What is your operating system?

It is windows vista, service pack 2.

Is that what you mean Alexander ?

If your login is ANDY then open file C:\Users\ANDY\AppData\Roaming\Stellarium\log.txt and publish it here

open file c etc ?

Oh blimey, where do i type, copy and paste that ?

Yes, it's right. Your are open disk C, after open directory Users and etc.

Ok, start again.

You have lost me mate. I do not know what it is you want me to do !

You are trying to get someone here, who does not know what you want or knows nothing about computers !

OK. You say "stellarium has stopped working" and it then says windows is closing it down. Right? Do you can write about free space on disk C?

Yes, it says, stellarium exe has stopped working then says windows is closing it down, and then it does !

free space on disk c ?

Yep. Open Explorer, open My Computer, click right mouse button on disk C and read free space

disk c says ; 145gb free of 227gb

Is that what you mean ?

Yes, OK! Do you reinstall your copy of Windows Vista?

No, my pc has vista pre loaded already on the hard drive. I do not have a disk.

OK! Do you recovery your copy of Windows Vista?

No.

Windows vista is already in my pc. There is no recovery copy mate.

OK. Do you trying start Stellarium without OpenGL2 (Start Manu -> Programs -> Stellarium -> Stellarium (no OpenGL2))?

I have tried both the stellarium icons. They both say the same thing !

Hmm... Do you trying Stellarium 0.10.6 and 0.10.5? Do you changed settings for Stellarium plugins?

10.6 was running so slow and stuttered, it was hard to make it work.

I uninstalled it, loaded 10.5 as matthew said and now it will not run !

Do you trying reinstall Stellarium 0.10.6?

P.S. Apparently something has changed in the configuration of your PC - you do not remove anyone software before problems with Stellarium?

If i reinstall 10.6, it will be so slow again.

Ok, i will do that and see what happens.

My pc is schiß !

No, it operating system is crap

Ok, i have downloaded 10.6.

It is very slow in using it.

My internet speed is good !

Now what Alex ? lol

So, try here version (0.10.6.(3)) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/60641437/stellarium-bzr4850-2-win32.exe

Ok, hang on Alex......

Downloaded your link Alex.

It is still slow.

I am at a loss here.

I will try tomorrow and see what happens.

Thank you Alex mate.

Alexander, I believe the crash of 10.5 is caused by the stellarium folder created by 10.6. It seems that the files created by 10.6 in C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Stellarium are not backward compatible with 10.5. This happened in my vista system when I tried to run 10.5 after I installed 10.6.

I believe if Andy can delete the folder C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Stellarium 10.5 will run.

Andy try this:
- open any folder
- overwrite the folder name (at the top of the window) by pasting: C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming
but change Andy to your window user
- delete Stellarium folder

Regarding the 0.10.5 version not starting, I think kajaji is correct. Specifically the satellites.json file from 0.10.6 causes a crash when used with version 0.10.5.

Deleting the user data directory should solve this.

However, if 0.10.6 is running very slowly (what is the FPS btw?), I don't think 0.10.5 is going to be any better. Very bad performance is almost always caused by no OpenGL acceleration in the video drivers. When this is the case, the OS does work on the CPU which would otherwise be done in hardware in the GPU... the effect is usually something like a frame rate of 3 on good hardware, and often much less (e.g. 0.02 fps with less powerful CPUs).

In short:

1. Delete the user data directory if you really want to try 0.10.5
2. Find out 0.10.5 runs slow as well- update your video driver from the manufacturer's website.

In my experience there's no point in using Microsoft update to get drivers - they are usually very out of date. Also, going to the machine vendor (e.g. Dell) is not very useful - the Dell (or equivalent) website drivers are often just as out of date as MS update.

You must go directly to the manufacturer of the video card (i.e. ATI/AMD/NVidia/Intel). Even then you sometimes find there is not fully working OpenGL driver. In that case you're out of luck - complain to the video card maker and/or replace your hardware.

Thanks kajaji and Matthew,

it sounds like i will be struggling then.

I have deleted stellarium folder etc and reloaded it and it is still slow !

Is it worth pouring water into my pc's motherboard ?????? lol

Oh well, will have to leave it there then................

Thanks all

andy

Like I said above, this sounds like a video driver problem. Please try getting updated drivers from the video card manufacturer's website.