Needed: BETA Testers for Google Earth Plugin

**guino** · 10-04-2006, 12:52 PM

I've had that before with GE crashing, V3 didn't crash and V4 did.. haven't tried V4 on the same machine again, but V3 no longer works, so we have to deal with it. I do not know the reason/solution for that as of yet.

**MatrixPC** · 10-04-2006, 01:21 PM

Well, I fixed the GE crash problem. Now that is GREAT.
How did I fixed it?
Click Start -> Programs -> Google Earth -> Set Google Earth to DirectX Mode.

If that doesn't work, try OpenGL mode.
Now I need to lookup some skin for that.

**guino** · 10-04-2006, 01:56 PM

That fixed it for me on that machine too. Thanks!

**gaslan** · 10-04-2006, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by guino

but I hope to have gotten around the issue now.

Guino the latest .dll you posted works perfectly here!

Thanks once again!!

**gaslan** · 10-04-2006, 04:47 PM

and my humble contribution to this ... I've just made a screen for this, its just the basics (I dont have inet in my car) so I've included only tilt+/-, day/night mode, toggle gps. If you have FD running in the background it will show some info on the top.

I have to mention that the jpg are from pwcmed's triton skin. I've just changed them a bit and added the buttons, no credit for that

I have a small issue with the "GE_SHOWGPS" indicator not showing up. Any comments are welcome..

and once again, thanks again Guino for this great plugin

ps. btw the triton skin is 800x480 resized to 800x600 ...

**vinzer** · 10-04-2006, 05:40 PM

The latest RREarth (as of today) confirmed to work on my PC.
Thank you Guino, finally you fixed the problem and now it works !

**Cali** · 10-04-2006, 06:09 PM

Works great for me (latest version). Thanks!

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-04-2006, 06:22 PM

i ran this for the first time in the car today. Do you need internet connection to start it? it seems like it hangs on "initializing google earth" even when i'm connected to my cell phone 230kb connection.

**guino** · 10-04-2006, 07:01 PM

I start it on my car everyday with no internet and it works fine.. I have seen problems starting GE with low-end video cards, as well as 1 user saying he couldn't start it with no internet (he got an error message though).

I'd try GE by itself in your car first -- once you've made sure it works by itself, then you should try the plugin.

**kolemieux** · 10-04-2006, 11:38 PM

Guys - just loaded the latest minus GPS and dang looks promising. I am making a long trip tomorrow.

Since many people have had experience with this now, and new work - could someone offer for me a solid way to cache some states - I have plenty of disk just was not sure the best way to do this as I may not have my EVDO? Guino?

I know the app/tweak that was offered but am still very much a rookie with GE so help would be great......

I assume Guino you are just using this as you said as a WOW vs GPS is that correct?

Thanks for the great work.