System requirements
From Stellarium Wiki
- Linux/Unix; Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7; MacOS X 10.3.x or greater
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL
- a dark room for realistic rendering - details like the Milky Way or star twinkling can’t be seen in a bright room
- a minimum of 256 MiB RAM, 1 GiB or more required for the largest star catalogues
Note about OpenGL version
Stellarium is compiled to specifically use OpenGL 2 for better rendering quality. If your video card does not have an OpenGL 2 compatible driver you can force Stellarium to use OpenGL 1.x by:
- (under Windows) using menu icon Stellarium (no OpenGL2), or
- placing use_qpaintenginegl2 = false in section [main] of the config.ini file
| Stellarium version | System requirements | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal | Recommended | |||||||||||
| Linux/UNIX | Windows | Mac OS X | RAM | HDD | OpenGL | Linux/UNIX | Windows | Mac OS X | RAM | HDD | OpenGL | |
| 0.6.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.6.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.7.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.7.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.8.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.8.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.8.2 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.9.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.9.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.2 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.3 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.4 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.5 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.10.6 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.11.0 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.11.1 | - | |||||||||||
| 0.11.2 | Qt 4.6.0+; cmake 2.8+; GCC 4.3+ | 2000+ | 10.5+ | 256 Mb | 100 Mb | 1.1 | Qt 4.7.4; cmake 2.8+; GCC 4.3+ | XP+ | 10.5+ | 1 Gb | 1.5 Gb | 2.0+ |
| 0.11.3 | - | |||||||||||
