Display and Graphical Problems

Why is Kourou Shown near Alaska, when its actually in South 
America?

The 3D View doesn't come up at all, or there an error 
message or Invalid page fault error, whats wrong?

The 3D view may not work on all PCs, Its all down to the 
capabilities of your Display card, it needs to be DirectX 8.1(or 
higher) Compatible, but here are a few things you can do to 
help it……
First ensure you have DirectX v8.1(or higher) installed, you 
can get a copy from microsoft for Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 
2000, But XP has it built-in. Ensure you have the latest driver 
for your graphics display, do a search for the company that 
makes your card, most have their drivers available to 
download. 
Make sure you use 16bit colour or 32bit colour modes, 24bit 
will most likely not work with DirectX.
One more thing, click START, RUN and type: DXDIAG this is a 
diagnostic program for directX, you can ignore most of what 
you see, just go straight to the "display" section, and run the 
DIRECT3D test, you should see a Spinning Cube with a 
directX logo on each side. If you do not, then theres a 
problem with DirectX, Your display driver, or your card, so 
theres nothing in satscape that you can change to make it 
work, the problem lies with one of the other components.

The 3D View comes up, but the large area where the 3D view 
should be, is black.

Whats all this HAL and REF device stuff?

What is "Hardware vertex processing" option in the 3D 
Settings?