TA Bug report (BETA 2A)

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Hey,

1- My Earth's moon is moving through asteroids.
2- When hitting ALT-TAB to go in Windows and coming back with ALT-TAB, crash.

Running WinXP Pro SP2.

Thanks
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Don't know if #1 really counts as a bug, minor graphical annoyance maybe.

For #2, run the game in windowed mode. Alt-Tab does tend to crash the game, always has. That's not even specific to this game, either. I've played others that did the same.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Alt-Tab stability with most games I've played, unless there really is a critical bug, is usually related to available RAM and how much other stuff is running in the background. I just did a re-install of XP SP2 a few months ago to clear out DLL rot, and I try not to run too many background processes. It has 2gb RAM. I've always been able to Alt-Tab back and forth from GalCiv to the desktop with no trouble, including the current TA beta. OTOH, I don't play anything larger than medium or large galaxy maps, so maybe I'd see trouble if I was swapping out anything bigger.

I know it's annoying when someone posts something like that, when other people are having problems. But I guess the devs should know that it isn't affecting everyone.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I will try to reproduce it. I have 2G of ram, nothing else running (barely I mean) and I've always been able to ALT-TAB from DL and DA without any crash. That is why I posted it as a bug.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I only got 1gb with win xp sp2 home
i tabbed some times and it never crashed, just takes a bit to show up again.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well.. first everytime I mouse over the four corners of the screen, the view jumps around frantically for a while. I've experienced a couple random crashes in the first thirty minutes. Every single model view twirls around like a ballerina on caffeine. Destroyed enemy ships sometime s come back to life. Planet models in the planet screen continuously strobe whilst an inner model slowly shrinks down until it disappears and pops back in full size.. amongst other things..

This was a recent reinstall of the game. Plus I downloaded the fix to the pathfinding bug in DA although I am not sure that will have affected TA.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well.. first everytime I mouse over the four corners of the screen, the view jumps around frantically for a while. I've experienced a couple random crashes in the first thirty minutes. Every single model view twirls around like a ballerina on caffeine.
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Planets and ships spinning out of control is most generally due to the use of an Athlon 64 x2 CPU without updated CPU drivers. If this the case with your machine, download and install the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) file found at the bottom of this page.


2- When hitting ALT-TAB to go in Windows and coming back with ALT-TAB, crash.
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+ How to reproduce the crash (if possible).
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Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I didn't have the time to try reproduce it, but I was going to do it with SmartException, don't worry