did you install 0.9.7.4 on top of a previous 0.9.7.3 installation? because I see a syntax error parsing english translation database I think it shouldn't be there. Also I see SE is loading a presumably old atmospheres.pak and catalogs0973.pak.
Almospheres were heavily changed with the last RC1 if I recall right, and the system giving troubles is loading a Pluto atmosphere model. Try renaming the atmospheres.pak to .old, so SE should load only the newer atmospheres0974.pak, and see if it does the issue again. I suggest you though to reinstall the last update in a new directory.
Yeah i don't feel like changing anything of my Space Engine directory since this is occuring to other peopleas well so i'd say this is a bug or some sort of glitch ill leave it as it is for now it's pretty cool to look at lol.
Well, when I put Hapke to random settings while the atmosphere is disabled, it removed the white ring. The Bright properties is responsible for reduced frame rate and eventual crash if they don't have a valid integer. Also, the SkyLight is responsible for white atmosphere when the atmosphere is on if they have invalid integer.
NVIDIA 960 GTX 2048MB
Edited by LookAtDatDakka - Saturday, 02.04.2016, 23:14
Space Engineer - can you let us know if you ever plan to make the game compatible with the release version of the Oculus Rift?
Of course I will. It's stupid to not support new hardware/driver. It's like if I say what SE will work only on Win7 with GTX780 driver version 364.72, and nothing else.
Quote yaqdark () Space Engineer - can you let us know if you ever plan to make the game compatible with the release version of the Oculus Rift?
Of course I will. It's stupid to not support new hardware/driver. It's like if I say what SE will work only on Win7 with GTX780 driver version 364.72, and nothing else.
Taking into account this, it's possible what I must take my words back. It's better to change to Vive, and completely remove Oculus support.
Let's hope that Microsoft does not come any ideas. For example: Every book that has been created with Word may be marketed by Microsoft. Without permission.
Even better, anything that has been created on a computer with Windows may be used by Microsoft as desired. And of course, from the manufacturer of the computer!
And who buys the next time a hammer, should carefully read the terms and conditions for this purchase. Otherwise it could happen if he uses this hammer to build a house that the manufacturer of the hammer sends him lodgers in the house!
well it's not that he's using Oculus to create content for SE, it's the other way around. But I agree that those ToS can be inherently used in a whole new array of wrong and scary ways.
"Time is illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Douglas N. Adams My mods Asus x555ub: cpu i5-6200u - ram 4gb - gpu nvidia geforce 940m 2gb vram
Isn't this clause limited to the case of you uploading or distributing your software through their Steam-a-like catalogue/client/program/site/thing/whatever? Is it not possible to bypass that and output to the Rift without their software? In that case, they could stake no claim, right?
New version of 0.9.7.4, release candidate 2. I hope this is a last RC before release. The only things needed is updated translations, and maybe some minor bugfixes.
Run installer and follow instruction. Please report success or failure of installing/run on Windows 8.1 and 10.
double-click on desktop icon to run SE.
Disclaimer This is a beta version, it have many bugs almost release version, it must have as less bugs as possible. Please report bugs here, in this thread.
Updates will be shared in this thread, and also in this first post.
Known issues:
Sagittarius A* black hole located not exactly in the canter of the Milky Way galaxy, as other real galactic black holes
Various glitches with ships physics and autopilot logic are possible, especially if time is accelerated
Exoplanet catalog is slightly out of date
All localizations except Russian are out of date
Full changelog for 0.9.7.4RC2(04 April 2016)
Do not open, it is too loooong! :) This is the most long changelog in SE history ever.
Major updates: - Many improvements with space ships gameplay - New physically accurate rendering of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarves with accretion disks - Massive catalogs of binary and multiple star systems, black holes, brown dwarves - Chemical composition of planetary atmospheres - Rendering in equirectangular spherical projection - Dithering to fix banding artifacts - Reversed fp32 z-buffer: no more z-fighting, camera can approach objects up to a distance of a few centimeters - New addon installation procedure - just drop a single .pak file to the "addons" folder
Space ships: - Space ships are now rendered in interstellar space and in the Wiki preview - Implemented docking of ships with each other - Engines exhaust rendering and sound effects - Landing on planets: ships become fixed on the surface - Alcubierre warp drive physics, with HUD, controls and autopilot - Autopilot: -- Flying to target using main engines (acceleration-deceleration scheme) -- Flying to target using warp drive -- Synchronization of the velocity with target -- Holding altitude (hovering above a planet) -- Target can be any celestial body or another ship -- Physically-based autopilot turns -- Autopilot commands in the right-click context menu (ability to give orders to remote ships) - Ability to bind warp drive power control to mouse, keyboard and joystick - Ship's warp state, autopilot state, reference body and target are saved to the config - Smooth third-person camera for the ship which is currently controlled - Newly built ship spawns with the same speed as the currently selected one - Simple ship editor: changing global parameters, adding/removing effects and modules, saving to the script - Button "Teleport here" in the Ships manager is available only in cheat mode - Buttons for "Fly here" and "Hyperjump here" commands are added to the Ships manager - Restored possibility of selecting the reference body - Hyperbolic orbits of ships are now displayed - Updated default ships
Procedural planets and stars: - New physically accurate rendering of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarves with accretion disks - Chemical composition of planetary atmospheres - Updated palettes for titans and iceworlds - Alien vegetation on titans with terrestrial life - Reduced too-common impact basins on titans and iceworlds - Suppressed mountain generation in impact basins - Random global tint of planets in shades of brown - Polar caps on cold selenas and iceworlds (Ganymede-like and Pluto-like thin frost deposit) - Animated surface of neutron stars and white dwarves - Improved rendering of late M-dwarves and brown dwarves - Smoother solar spots - Integrated Klud's mods for selenas and asteroids - Improved asteroid surface textures - Improved giant stars surface textures - Improved craters shape - New atmosphere models by HarbingerDawn - Added faint (Jupiter-like) rings generation with probability parameters in universe.cfg - Added detail-less gas giants like Uranus - Fixed unrealistic rings in binary planet systems - Option to change hue and saturation of atmosphere for each planet, integrated to scripts and editor - Fixed seams in terrain textures and meshes on procedural planets - Detail specular bump mapping on planets
Astronomy: - Massive catalog of binary and multiple star systems by Cirax - Massive catalog of systems with relativistic objects (black holes, neutron stars and white dwarves) by Cirax - Massive catalog of systems with brown dwarves by Cirax - Updated exoplanets catalog (16 Dec 2015) - Added exoplanet names approved by International Astronomical Union - New Pluto, Charon, Ceres and Vesta textures - New Saturn rings texture - Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* and stars orbiting it - Integrated Bambusman's nebulae models - Integrated Astroniki's Orion nebulae complex - Reduced brightness of some Solar System bodies - Added satellites of Quaoar and (38628) Huya - Added ability to replace procedural supermassive black hole with a catalog entry - Added ability to specify star mass, radius and temperature in the star script - Added Y spectral class for brown dwarfs - Implemented correct orientation of extrasolar systems (RefPlane "Extrasolar" for inclination and ascending node) - Added ability to specify locked position of a body relative to parent body with simplified script syntax (RefPlane "Static" and "Fixed") - Reduced luminosity of procedural star clusters - Updated open clusters size and star statistics - Some planets and moons can be in spin-orbital resonance (not only 1:1)
Interface: - Improved ship manager with "Pack" and "Faction" filters for ships - Smooth switching of many display options and objects (labels, orbits, eclipse shadows, clouds etc) - Smooth lighting animation in the Chart mode - Updated Wiki: -- Finished description editor, supported standard shortcuts like Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Shift-PgDn etc, text selection and copy/paste -- Increased length of the first column in the data tables -- User and default descriptions are saved to separate files -- Added information about exosphere temperature, chemical composition of atmosphere, etc -- Updated articles - Updated Player settings menu: -- Added option to display full and abbreviated names of constellations -- Added option to display radius instead of diameter for the selected object -- Added option to choose pressure unit - Updated Graphics settings menu: -- Removed "Atmo from sea level" and "Atmo extinction" switches -- Added "Hi-quality aurora" and "Hi-quality black holes" switches -- Added "Loading speed" slider to control planet loading speed vs framerate -- Maximum planet LOD is limited to +1, with the ability to set +2 in the console - Updated Export skybox menu: -- Added image format selection -- Swapped pos_z and neg_z faces -- After pressing "Save", engine wait for loading/generation completeness before saving files - Blinking cursor in the text edit boxes - Hints allows viewing of table cell contents if the cell is too small - Planet shine is disabled on previews in Solar System browser and Wiki - Displaying of spin-orbital resonance and solar day length of a planet - Button "Start" on Video capture dialog changes to "Stop" when video capture is in process - Planet SurfStyle can be updated in the Planet editor - Localized parent names in the Search menu - Customizable colors of GUI and fonts (via skins system) - New GUI skins - Updated localizations
Controls: - Swapped default rotate CW/CCW keys - Camera motion mode or controlled ship is restored after closing of the Map Mode - Added ability to cancel autopilot "Warp to" and "Fly to" commands - Smooth camera rotations in Free mode
Catalogs and file system: - Changed directory structure - "data" and "addons" folder are provided, which have identical internal structure (textures, models etc subfolders) and work in parallel - New addon installation procedure - just drop a single .pak file to the "addons" folder - Duplicate entry of any object in a catalog file updates/patches the older entry (entry in older file) - no need to edit default catalog files to install a patch or mod - Automatic search for catalog files through default directories - no need to edit the universe.cfg to install a catalog patch, mod or addon - Automatic search for galaxy/nebula model scripts through default directories - no need to edit the models.cfg to install a model patch, mod or addon - Automatic search for atmosphere model scripts through default directories - no need to edit the atmospheres.cfg to install a model patch, mod or addon - Shaders, music and sounds are moved into the "data" folder; overriding by corresponding file in the "addons" folder is possible - csv file format for galaxy catalog - Local group galaxies are moved into separate catalog file, others are converted to csv - Added Lum and Luminosity parameters for the nebulae, clusters and galaxies script - Added AlbedoBond and AlbedoGeom parameters for planet scripts - Advanced catalog error logging: typing file name and line number where error was detected, ability to change behaviour globally or per catalog file - Improved star solver: calculating missing parameters for catalog star using the provided ones, now works for multiple stars
Engine: - All shaders are moved to OpenGL 3.3+ core profile - Accelerated pak files loading - Optimized and updated GUI rendering and skins system - Optimized labels and markers rendering - Label rendering for selected object is independent of distance and brightness - Markers rendering in correct order: markers of closer objects can be visible in front of farther objects - Labels and markers for ships - Implemented custom defines for glsl shaders, some similar shaders are merged into a single file - Separate shader cache folders for each driver version - Separate files for saving default and user locations - Changed format of locations config - Added cvars for planets lighting dimming magnitude and secondary lighting limit magnitude - Added StereoIPD parameter to the config - Stars and planets does not disappear when galaxies are switch off - Exposure doesn't affect labels - Exposure doesn't affect GUI in Oculus Rift mode - New object selection method for Oculus Rift - Updated to Oculus 0.8 runtime - Separate buffers for left and right pass in stereo modes - Improved quality of elliptical galaxies rendering - Internal time representation is changed to 64.64 fixed point type - Improved quality and performance of the logarithmic z-buffer - Implemented reversed floating point z-buffer: -- Rendering orbital paths with proper order with planets and ships -- Fixed z-fighting issues on water and clouds -- Allows placing the camera up to few centimeters from a planetary surface or space ship - Improved stability at 4k+ screen resolution - Atmosphere models are managed by the memory manager - Music player working in a separate thread - Faster reloading of terrain generator shaders by Ctrl-F5 (only for selected planet's class) - Improved terrain tiles culling algorithm - slightly less VRAM is needed to load a planet
Bugfixes: - Fixed planetary rings brightness in the "real planet brightness" mode - Fixed holes in planetary surface where lava flows should be - Fixed wrong terrain LOD calculation on small screens - Fixed Pluto system orientation - Fixed some bugs in planet script exporting - Fixed black stain artifact on a planet surface - Reduced cyclone cutting probability - Fixed lags when changing FOV - Fixed changing of a planet particle size when changing FOV - Fixed climate smoothing on planets with a thick atmosphere - Fixed clouds lighting in thin atmospheres - Fixed too many cloud layers on planets with thin atmosphere - Fixed bug with sun shining through the ocean - Fixed change of the display mode and refresh rate at SE startup - Fixed a lot of stars with wrong/error stellar class in the star catalogs - Fixed over 400 duplicated galaxy names in the galaxy catalogs - Fixed camera velocity indicator - Fixed star motion blur when changing distance with left + right mouse drag - Fixed star motion blur for ships in hyperspace - Fixed some bugs with automatic ships hyperjump - Wiki descriptions now correctly display tabulations - Fixed specular spot on ships - Fixed specular spot on Oceanias - Fixed visual artifacts with atmosphere and water on Oceanias - Fixed atmosphere height on tidally heated worlds - Fixed too small atmospheres height on gas giants - Fixed sudden stopping of ship rotation when changing orbital orientation mode - Fixed blinking LOD of a planet when Wiki is opened - Fixed Overbright slider initialization in the Magnitude/brightness settings menu - Fixed blurring of slider handle texture - Fixed bug with invisible velocity pointer text - Fixed crash on opening Chart mode for the not currently visible system - Fixed wrong animation of the currently followed planet in the Chart mode - Fixed localization change in the Chart Mode - Fixed incorrect saving of rendering options when exit program while Chart Mode is opened - Fixed continuous execution of ship's autopilot command "Retrograde" - Fixed render of orbits in the Map mode - Fixed bug with infinite radius of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarves - Fixed artifacts with black hole and ship warp effect in stereo modes - Fixed wrong camera positioning at program startup - Fixed pushing camera up while loading location on a planetary surface - Fixed camera pushing when landing on planet with Left+Right mouse drag - Fixed wrong calculation of orbital period of catalog binary stars - Fixed crash on building a ship in interstellar space - Fixed sprites rendering order in nebulae - Fixed extreme apparent magnitude of a comet nucleus if camera or ship is close to it - Fixed throttle and correction engines controls by joystick - Fixed switching ship's behind camera when planet is selected - Fixed smooth fade in of the selection pointer - Fixed orientation of the ship's orbit relative to moons - Fixed ship's orbital position calculation - Fixed ship's "Horizon" orientation command - Fixed bug with phase calculation for planets and ships - Fixed inability to change ship's hyperfactor if engines are off - Fixed autopilot warp to star systems - Fixed ship's gravity acceleration display - Fixed procedural stars generation in dwarf galaxies - Fixed rings blending with clouds and atmosphere - Fixed seam artifact in rings - Fixed star sprite in barycenters - Fixed star density in Milky Way - Fixed various rendering bugs in the Map Mode - Fixed planet particles rendering in front of water/clouds - Fixed foreground labels rendering in front of planets - Fixed instability in orbit solver for hyperbolic orbits - Fixed bug with sudden camera rotation when collide with terrain - Fixed star counter in galaxies - Fixed always off VSync in main menu - Fixed bug with clouds height of catalog stars - Fixed bug with broken Milky Way model - Fixed bug with wrong ships positions after program start - Fixed brown dwarf illumination by other stars in a system - Fixed comet tail cutoff - Fixed object name text goes outside preview area in Wiki - Fixed bug with wrong generation of a star rotation period in multiple catalog systems - Fixed bug with catalog stars not being properly overwritten by new entries - Fixed bug with wrong galaxy sysmodel loading after cache cleaning - Fixed bug with no procedural nebulae generated in Irr galaxies - Fixed sudden appear/disappear of nebula model when distance changed - Fixed camera motion direction after using of tracking - Fixed offset between terrain texture and mesh, gaps in terrain on small bodies - Completely fixed seams in the terrain textures and mesh - Fixed transparency of the interface in Fish eye mode - Fixed bug with name of barycenter of binary planet - Fixed bug with ability to select "invisible" stars and planets in the star clusters - Fixed comet tail and star corona brightness in the autoexposure mode - Fixed bug with not loading of some planet's shaders (missing previews in the Solar System Browser, transparent planets etc) - Fixes some ship models - Fixed asteroids terrain - Fixed rayed craters - Restored narrow features on gas giant's clouds - Fixed missing procedural red giant stars - Fixed behaviour of the engines thrust sliders when time flow is reversed - Fixed bug with ship's real speed in interstellar flight is 2 times faster than expected - Fixed ships flight state (interstellar/interplanetary) in catalog star clusters - Fixed too big oblateness of some supergiant stars - Fixed bug with rendering of galaxies with ModelBright different from 1 - Fixed crashes on AMD/ATI cards at startup - Fixed broken textures/mipmaps on AMD/ATI cards - Fixed ship models non-loading in Interleaved mode - Fixed non-loading of textures of rings, lens flares, ships and galaxies at program startup or at high load - Fixed inability to select a procedural planet if catalog planets are disabled - Fixed freezes on Earth and other real planets with huge texture packs - Fixed flipped saving of png images - Fixed incorrect shader code generation for warm and hot oceania - Fixed bug in atmosphere scattering precomputing code (broken atmosphere models)
Since I have a low end machine (see my sig for specs), do I need to limit or minimize the number of times I install a new patch or version of SE?
Specs: Dell Inspiron 5547 (Laptop); 8 gigabytes of RAM; Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz; Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit; Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 4400 (That's all there is :( )
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