Upon starting program Windows desktop disintegrated into pixellated pattern

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Stellarium 0.10.2
Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 3
Display adapter: Mobility Radeon 9600
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc
Driver version: 6.14.10.6378

After booting the laptop, following installation of the program, the first few times Stellarium was started, the Windows desktop disintegrated into a multi-coloured pattern, covering the entire screen, extending from the bottom right-hand corner to the top left-hand corner.

The pattern remained for a few seconds, then the program started, apparently normally.

This behaviour disappeared after the program was started a few times.

2009-12-02T09:02:55
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 3.4.2
Qt runtime version: 4.5.0
Qt compilation version: 4.5.0
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 1023 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 85%
Processor speed: 3200 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Processor speed: 3200 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
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[ This is Stellarium 0.10.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/Firstname SURNAME/Application Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
  0 . "C:/Documents and Settings/Firstname SURNAME/Application Data/Stellarium"
  1 . "."
Config file is: "C:/Documents and Settings/Firstname SURNAME/Application Data/Stellarium/config.ini"
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\Firstname SURNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits
Loading star data ...
Loading "stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013
Loading "stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999
Loading "stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416
Loading "stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 3
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 / 13226 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "./stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Creating GUI ...

[Fabien Chéreau (xalioth)]

What you see is random uncleared data from the last openGL buffer update from the last openGL-based software run. Should try to find a way to get rid of it. The boot start in the next release is much shorter anyway.
Fabien

[boxcorner (rh-first-rate)]

Thanks.

After starting Stellarium, when the random pattern is not displayed, what I see briefly is the usual land and skyscape, then the screen goes black and a splash window opens and loads the constallation data, then the land and skyscape returns and I am able to use Stellarium. I expected the program to start with the splash screen, before displaying the land and skyscpape.

Stellarium crashes whenever I select the left-hand [F2] or [F4] options.
Should I create a separate bug report to describe this problem?

[Fabien Chéreau (xalioth)]

This should be fixed in 0.10.4