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olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Celestia too slow to be usable

Celestia (an OpenGL application to navigate through space) is in my configuration so slow that it is unusuable, moreover it takes 100% CPU all the time (even when doing nothing).  I have however OpenGL installed. Output of glxinfo | grep render:

direct rendeCelestia (an OpenGL application to navigate through space) is in my configuration so slow that it is unusuable. I have however OpenGL installed. Output of glxinfo | grep render:

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direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
[/code]

ring: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2

Moreover Googleearth is working fine. So I think that my graphic card is correctly configured (google earth is typically unusable without hardware openGL rendering).