Missing a file?
Some users have reported "incomplete" installations. If you try to run Distant Suns 4 and it asks for a "DLL" file you may download it here. Select the need file, download and unzip it into your system directory. On Windows NT this would be something like "C:\winnt\system32". On standard windows, it would be "C:\windows\system\".
Are you seeing only tiny dots when you hover of Pluto or Uranus? One release of Distant Suns 4 left out two small needed files, which you may download from below.
Updates
Distant Suns 4/SETI 4.0b. This is the only .exe for the SETI@Home version of Distant Suns 4. If you already have the full package (Version "4" in the titlebar), you only need this file. You need to download this file for one of the two following reasons : You are running the SETI screensaver from a non-standard location
The latest Distant Suns 4/SETI patch, version 4.0c (released Feb. 5, 2000) fixes a bug that a few users were experiencing, which caused the startup screen to go black, locking them out of the rest of the software. If you didn't have this problem, or any others, there is no reason to upgrade.
Download DS4/SETI version 4.02c bug fix
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