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Don't let the Chinese government take over Celestia. Refuse, resist! Also, I think Russia should think about which is more likely: the wealthy Europe or the emerging China is the real threat (Siberia has 36 million people versus China has 1.4 billion people).

OK, I changed my internet security and antivirus software and the "slow first run" problem disappeared.

I don't think so. I have a new SSD c:/ drive and an 8 core processor with 16GB RAM. I suspect it is some kind of antivirus or security procedure, which slows the program down the first time it is launched AFTER BOOTING. After the first run it starts nicely again at the second, third etc. times until...

Windows has only an 80% market share...why bother?

One more thing: Celestia 1.6.2 starts very slowly at the first time after booting Windows. The second, third etc. times have no problems. Very strange.

onetwothree wrote:Because it's not 1995.

OK, but why can't Celestia 1.6.2 overwrite a cel file in the APPDATA folder in 2019? I run Celestia as an administrator, but not from the drive C:.

OK, it seems I have to manually replace the favorites.cel file in the APPDATA folder. Why do we need a cel file in the APPDATA folder? Why can't Celestia use the cel file in the Program Files folder?

It seems Celestia 1.6.2 cannot overwrite (or use) the old APPDATA/Roaming cel file. Also after the first bookmark the APPDATA bookmark file won't update any longer, but in the Program Files folder favorites.cel is getting updated (but it is obviously not enough).

Very nice work! Nice fps rates on Windows 10 64 bit, and everything works perfectly. :clap: Only one minor problem: I cannot save any bookmarks. :cry: Celestia 1.6.2 simply forgets the previous bookmarks for some reason when it starts. Other than that it is truly nice! Thank you for the hard work!

onetwothree wrote:Why should we care about Wine

Does it mean that you are no longer officially developing a Windows version? Because it makes the whole project a lot less interesting and makes celestia.Sci a better alternative...

Well, I used this online antivirus engine. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload I think if we share a file and we have an antivirus alert we should inform the community. This is the first time I got an alert in years. Jiangmin antivirus produced false alarms in the past, so it is probably not ...

I've got a security alert from Virustotal considering the download file:

Cool, thanx.

Simple "dummy" planet with ctx cloud textures ON (distorted texture!): image2 ctx clouds on.jpg Ctx cloud textures OFF (real surface texture!): image1 ctx clouds off.jpg Ctx and normal cloud textures ON side by side: ctx clouds on.jpg Ctx and normal cloud textures OFF: ctx clouds off.jpg I...

It seems that the problem is with the ctx virtual textures, on moons and on stars. Switching on and off virtual ctx cloud textures in the Options menu distorts the surface textures under them. Also instead of the virtual ctx textures moons and stars show other, unrelated textures on their surface, l...

I have to clarify that there ARE good textures and good ssc files in the add-on folder, but they are not working correctly anymore. It seems they are not processed by Celestia.

These are add-on moons. By the way this is the worst graphic and overall bug I have ever experienced in Celestia. In contrast the last win version worked almost perfectly. I will recreate the bugs in a special add-on, as soon as I have the time. Are you sure we don't need any more installation file ...

Thanx! :clap: I'm downloading it right away! There are VERY serious graphic and texture issues in the new version. In the QT version moon textures are missing or they are distorted, atmospheres and clouds are missing, and some moons has the wrong texture. Some surface features disappeared. The win v...

A separate, single Celestia 1.7 installation file would be nice! Is it possible to have a new 2 million stars data file in the installation from the new GAIA data set?

This is how aliens could see Earth...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.04350.pdf