OpenRocket: packaged installers for Windows and Mac to solve all your Java problems

Excellent, glad to hear it. The nice thing with the packaged installers is that they are not "installing Java on your PC".

 

neil, what is the packaged version ? Could it maybe work on vista? Thanks.

 

It's the installer linked in the first post of this thread. I think you already said it didn't work for you? (and BTW you should still upgrade at least to Windows 7 )

 

Understand, but never needed to before this!!!

 

Hi neil, tried it again but still will not open. Thanks, but "oh" well. Dave.

 

THANKS SO MUCH, neil_w, for migrating Open Rocket to a Windows installer. I'd never had a problem with the Java version until I upgraded my Home Theater PC's display to a new Samsung 4K QLED last weekend. Open Rocket's apparently non-adjustable font scaling in the component tree was really ugly at the TV's native UHD resolution (3840x2160), with each line of text overlapping the next. But reinstalling Open Rocket with YOUR more Windows-friendly distribution fixed the issue perfectly.

You're a hero!

Good skies,
GlueckAuf

 

Glad it worked for you!

 

If this is not already,it should be a sticky. Fantastic job!!!!

 

I've downloaded OR then I found the .exe file here. I can do designs with nose cones, fins and rocket bodies but nothing else, no motors! Is it possible to use OR with W7?

 

You are designating whatever tube you want to put the motor into as a motor mount, right?

 

I've had similar with some of my older (read crappier) computers. The only way I've found to solve it is to run O.R on a better machine..O.S. does not seem to matter. And just for kicks, Windows 7 is no longer going to be supported..

 

I am still having problems viewing rockets in the 3D Rendering settings.

 

There are occasionally graphics driver issues that the packaged installers don't really have any influence over. Can you describe your system (hardware and OS)?

 

I pretty sure there are known bugs in the 3D rendering screen. Not sure they are fixable.

Tony

 

OH YEA! That is awesome. This has plagued my system for a long, long, time. Thank you for posting this fix.

 

Thanks Neil Also, for all you Windows 7 people on this thread, it is still possible to download the most current Win 10 ISO, build a bootable USB drive with Rufus, and install Win 10 & activate it using your Win 7 key.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

https://rufus.ie/

 

Works perfectly ! Thank You

 

Excellent! Thank you, sir!

 

I discovered on my Windows 10 laptop that OR was still having issues. But then I ran across a post on TRF where a fellow was having the same issues I was having. He found that if he ran it in Windows 8.1 compatability mode that everything worked properly. So I did the same thing & it fixed the problems.