Display errors

[Joerg R.]

Hi.

i need some help on debugging a nasty display error on some machines,
mostly on old hardware (eg pentium 4, 512 MB ram, on board graphics)
but also a few more recent machines are affected (f.ex. a notebook
with pentium-m 2 ghz, 1 gb ram, ati graphics adapter).


the ground layer itself and the city markers are displayed correctly
on every machine,
they can freely navigate and move around.
But as soon as they select a country layer, e.g. Portugal the camera
moves but the layer is not shown.Instead only bits of the white
borders are shown.
Broken Image:
http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support/web/ge-displayerror.jpg
Here is how it has to look:
http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support/web/ge-displaycorrect.jpg

Do you have any recommendations/ideas what goes wrong?

regards
Joerg

[Joerg R.]

Update:

Link to test site:
w w w . reisslein . de / work / gebietsverantwortung_v4

and the link to the kmz file:
w w w . reisslein . de / work / gebietsverantwortung_v4 / maps / PT-
VB.xml

[Joerg R.]

No one? :(

Can someone confirm if the country layer, Portugal, is displayed
correctly please?

thank you
Joerg

[Roman N]

Hi Joerg,

The polygons render fine on my machine. If the computers are old, try
following these steps to tweak Google Earth:

http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=20713

Thanks,
Roman

[Joerg R.]

Hi Roman,

thanks a lot for you reply.

The article you pointed to is only handling the google earth
application...so how can i
switch the rendering engine (directx or opengl) for the ge-plugin when
google earth app is not installed?

regards
Joerg

[fraser (Earth API Guru)]

Hi Joerg,

I believe you can control this using the following registry key.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Google\GoogleEarthPlugin\Render\RenderingApi
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Where 0 = DirectX and 1 = OpenGL

See this thread for more info on this:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-browser-plugin/browse_thread/thread/5d5c7b7c90450de2/0bf9fc0f91dbfc55

F.