Hi,

just to check if I'm the only one experiencing this. It happend once before and then magically disappeared after some hours, so I thought it might not be on my side...

Here's the problem: as soon as the "GEWar - KML files" container is loaded and it starts loading the cities KML, my GE stops rendering, I can still interact with the map, it's just that it does not render anything. I just noticed that it doesn't even animate the cities KML icon for its loading state.
This happens in the instant the cities KML starts loading, and can't be reversed other than by restarting GE. Adding to the strangeness, GE does render one frame if the window loses focus.

Tried rebooting (of course) and reinstalling GE; didn't change anything.
EDIT: forgot to mention: switching between OGL & DX or GE's safe mode don't help either.

Any thoughts?

What OS and what GE version are you using? Did you try throwing the gewar kml file into the bin and reloading it?

Hey, I missed that possibility. Tried it now, doesn't help either.

GE 5.1.3533.1731 on Win XP, absolutely nothing changed from yesterday (where it worked) to today.

I'll try completely removing all settings for GE, maybe something that broke survived the reinstall process. EDIT: that fixed it for about 0.5 seconds, then the same situation started again. Meh.

And another thing: I can't plant resources either, becaus as GE does not move the map, it doesn't thell the server I selected a location... even if I use the "take the focus away"-hack to at least see something.

working for me...


Google Earth
5.2.1.1588
Build Date
Sep 1, 2010
Build Time
11:06:01 am
Renderer
DirectX 9
Operating System
Microsoft Windows (6.0.6002.2)
Video Driver
00008086 (00007.00014.00010.01103)
Max Texture Size
2048x2048
Server
kh.google.com

Works for me now, too.

In short: Google *****ed it up. If you go to the regular download page and tell it to give you 5.2, you get 5.1. This is why "updating" didn't change a thing for me - I was installing the same thing over and over again. Stupid Google ;baddy

Now, if you head to this FAQ entry (http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=168344), there is a list of archived versions. The 5.2 downloadable there IS really a 5.2 (the one bob has), and this one actually works.
And now I have GEWar back :)

Although the new large browser is going to slow down jewelling a lot. Is there a way to set it to pop up in only a part of the window, like it uset do up to 5.1?

Oh and... the original case remains unsolved. Maybe we should file this under "X"...

Oh and... the original case remains unsolved. Maybe we should file this under "X"...
hmm... the gewar kml still doesn't work?

It does now, but I would really like to know why it broke one day to the other.

the full screen internal browser doesn't really slow down jeweling too much. once I click on the list of jewel locations and type in the first few letters then hit enter, the internal browser window closes itself and you go to the jewel location the map doesn't even have a chance to render before I can click yes and reopen the browser window, probably can jewel between 5 and 8 jewels a minute like this

*edit* GEWar has never liked GE 5.1