This is an old version of SpaceEngine! You can find the latest version here.
IMPORTANT!!! If you have NVidia graphics card, you should know that latest NVidia drivers are incompatible with this version of SpaceEngine. You will have many random glitches with them. The latest compatible driver version is 337.xxx. You can try this fix to restore compatibility, but this is not guaranteed.
Installation
Simply unpack archive to any place you wish and run SpaceEngine.exe Do not merge this version with old installed!
Controls
Read the readme094_eng.txt file in the SpaceEngine folder, or go here: Manual
Troubleshooting
Read here the Troubleshooting forum. If you found that this version is loading planets too slowly, try to reduce planets detail in graphics settings menu. Hit F4 and set Planets LOD slider to -3. This reduces amount af memory consumed by planets and also reduces the loading time.
That's new
Triple and multiple stars
Procedural planets around barycenters of multiple stars (i.e. planets orbiting two suns simultaneously)
Changes in the naming rules of procedural stars, planets and moons
Changes in the Solar system browser
Localization to Russian and possibility of localization to other languages
Fonts with different-width characters
A description of stars spectral classes
Various interface changes
The possibility of inversion of the mouse
Removed the prefix notation in the configuration files
The new stars motion blur mode: only when moving
Calculation of the density and pressure of the planetary atmospheres
Calculation of the greenhouse effect on the planets
Improved stars colors
Planets with highly eccentric orbits
Changed the sign of the LOD of planets: 3 for max detail, -3 for min
Gravitational lens effect of a for black holes and neutron stars
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and globular clusters (so far without accretion disks and jets)
Stars nearest to supermassive black hole are orbiting it
Procedural asteroid belts (at this time limited to 3000 asteroids per system)
Pointer to the selected object in the form of cross and arrow
Bug fixes
Eliminated the main cause of crashes (wrong calculation of used memory)
Fixed memory overrun due to the use of textures with a non-power-of-two resolution
Reduced the minimum distance to the galaxy twere generating of procedural stars begins
Reduced excessive density of stars in small galaxies
Fixed bug with writing extra spaces in the coordinates in the user config
Fixed bug with nebulae selecting
Fixed incorrect brightness of the nebula in Auto exposure mode
Fixed incorrect reading of the scripts with Linux-style end of line
Fixed slowdown with catalogs of thousands of asteroids and comets in solar system
Fixed a bug with the Bloom effect affection on the interface
Fixed displaying information about the number of planets around star
Fixed incorrect drawing of a marker of barycenter
Fixed cloud density on dry terra planets
Fixed display of Greek abbreviations instead of the Greek characters in the autopilot journal and locations dialog
Fixed flashing on the planets with atmosphere if sun comes into view field
Fixed incorrect determination of the temperature class of the planet while creating the system
Fixed bug with choosing of wrong body in the Solar system browser if there are several bodies with the same name present in catalog
Fixed a line break and reset of the register of font in table cells
Eliminated changing the direction of flight when switching between Spacecraft and Aircraft modes
Reduced z-fighting on the red giants models
Fixed bug with incorrect removing of duplicate stars in the script (text) stars catalog
Reduced z-fighting on the planets when seen from afar and through a telescope
Eliminated the loss of accuracy in the transformation of the vertices in very close to the surface of the planet
Fixed glare brightness on icy surfaces
Fixed disappearing of landscape tiles if camera turns qiuckly
This app is awesome! The only downturns are: 1. There is no Linux port. 2. Some of the planets are badly rendered (though I understand it's in beta) 3. This one is for me personally, but it lags on my Radeon 4770. :( Great card, but time for an upgrade! :)
Otherwise, good job! I am willing to see how the first version will turn out!
For those who are curious: My CPU is a Core 2 Quad Q9550 and I have 4 GB DDR2 RAM.
It Works Great With My Specs : 4 GB Ram , GPU: His HD 5830 Cooler V Turbo 1024 MB GDDR 5 , And CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055t 2.8 Ghz. but i don't like jupiter's surface do it more REAL :)
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