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 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?

When its ON, DirectX is instructed to make the graphics card 
do all the hard work, leaving plenty of time for Satscape and 
Windows to do everything else, But it doesn't work on a lot of 
cards, you simply get a black screen or distortions. When it’s 
OFF, Windows/DirectX does the work, so it can run a little 
slower. Experiment with this setting, it won't break your PC, it 
simply will work or not work. Just change it back if it doesn't.