Stellarium Trouble

[scottphillips]

hi guys just downloaded stellarium and this has come up and wont let me open stellarium ??

[Tinker1947]

Think it could be your video card is not up to running Stellarium, or your drivers need updating...

[scottphillips]

how do i update the driver ?? 

[JemC]

There is a couple of ways to do that,

the easiest is go to your graphics card website and look for updated drivers

the other go into ..

control panel > system > device manager > display adapter then double click on the card details presented to you which should open a small box with details in it, along the top will be listed a few different things with one of them being driver go into that and click update driver see what happens

[happy-kat]

good idea to backup your system first

[pevsfreedom]

If you have no idea what you're doing,

I'd download this to tell you all about your computer, what graphics card you have, etc.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Find the brand/model of your graphic card, google that graphic card companies website, click on downloads/drivers/etc. until you find your model, and download that.

You might also want to make sure your windows drivers are up to date via Windows Update.

Like mentioned however, your computer MIGHT not meet the minimum specs for Stellarium, depending how old it is. I'd say it would have to be at least 5-7 years old though, Stellarium isn't that fancy. 

[cuivenion]

I had this problem. I downloaded the latest driver from the video card company site, (mine was intel),uninstalled the current video driver, and installed the new driver. That solved the problem for me.

[damnut]

If you still have problems running opengl, then you can still download v12 of stellarium and it will work fine.