Cities of Earth is a free 3D screensaver wich shows biggest cities of our planet as you can see it from the space.
Here are some key features of "Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver":
Cities
· Positions of all cities corresponds to it's real coordinates.
Daylight and Night Time
· When you run the screensaver, sunlit part of the Earth is setting according to a real time (calculated from a local time and time zone on your PC).
· Day gives place to a night (and vice versa) very slowly, but if the screensaver is running during a few hours you can see this.
Low CPU usage
· This 3D screensaver saves CPU time to allowed background tasks to run without appreciable speed losses.
Zoom
· Use mouse wheel to move comera closer/farther.
Requirements:
· CPU: 1.0 GHz or higher
· RAM: 128 MB or more
· Hard Drive: 10 MB of free space
· Video: OpenGL 1.1 compatible video card. Video card with one of these chipsets is required: ATI 8500 or greater, NVIDIA GeForce4 or greater.
· Can be run on other video cards but without some visual effects.
· Sound: not required
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Displaying of local cities time
· - Fixed a bug when the cities didn't appear on some systems (Thanx to Rogerio Luiz Carvalho, Michael Kirmasov, DeadMichael and others for reporting and help)
· - Some optimization applied
· - More cities added