STICKY: Undocumented Features

Things we added but haven't had time to document

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(1) The official release of the digital version is 1.0D (for Digital).

(2) 1.0D allows users to RIGHT-CLICK on ship built notifications and it will automatically launch the ship.

(3) Because some video cards had video stuttering with the tutorials, the digital release adds a "Full screen" option. Ironically, the videos run fine on even obscenely low end hardware if run full-screen.

(4) We will have a full list of what's new in the digital release.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Is that the drop-down notification, or the GNN notification? Just curious, I know I had asked for this or something like it, but because of the change in left-clicking on ship notifications, I found I didn't want this feature as much.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
It's the notification that shows on the bottom right of the screen, though I wish you can do the same for other notification.

I think the auto-launching ship option would be really helpful here.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Froggy - I'm running in 1900x1200 rez on ATI X600 and a 24" dell LCD. I also get the stuttering (which is crazy because I have a dual core p4-3ghz with 3gb ram). When I run the full screen tutorials, the bottom 15% of the screen gets cropped - no doubt due to my wacky screen rez. It probably needs some scaling or something. I can send a screen cap if you like.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I was running 1366x768 on my plasma TV and on full screen in the tutorial the bottom got cropped too.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
It's the notification that shows on the bottom right of the screen, though I wish you can do the same for other notification.



Good to know and not intuitive in any way!

I think the auto-launching ship option would be really helpful here.


I'd like such an option too. I've been able to partially get around this by using rally points but it can get out of control if you're building lots of different ships for different purposes in different locations. And it sucks to make a rally point for one planet's ship production just to simulate auto-launching.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I am getting the Totorial Croping on my widescreen as well, I think i know what the problem is and will get it to the devs tomarrow. Hopefully we can get it fixed, without much adu.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
What about hotseat?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey Froggy - I'm running in 1900x1200 rez on ATI X600 and a 24" dell LCD. I also get the stuttering (which is crazy because I have a dual core p4-3ghz with 3gb ram). When I run the full screen tutorials, the bottom 15% of the screen gets cropped - no doubt due to my wacky screen rez. It probably needs some scaling or something. I can send a screen cap if you like.


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Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well Well Well... 82 day since responded to. You can tell I don't have alot of stuff to do.