3.10 less stable
 

while playing the game I usually alt-tab a great deal while the turn is processing.. I never had much problems but these days (3.10 days?) I get errors and shut-downs when I do that.

Have others noticed this too?
Could it be 3.10?
Anything I can do to change this (except not ALT-TAB-ing cus I need to do stuff http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif)

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Do you play the game in windowed mode? If so, there shouldn't be a problem.
If not - start doing it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

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I've had several failures with 3.10, either a sudden disappearance of the program (presumably a stack overflow) or a hang during battle resolution. I'm running it in a window.

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After I downloaded 3.10 I had battles (sometimes even not during the battles) freeze & hang up often forcing me to reboot completely. However, I didn't attribute this to 3.10 since I also had it occur once while on the internet when Dom3 was not running. I ran different virus/trojan scans, but they found nothing. I stopped having this problem after I disabled Windows automatic update (I update when I want) & disabled Task Scheduler (I never use this). However, all this is probably more due to my quirky XP system than anything with 3.10.

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It's been rock solid for me

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I've actually had fewer problems than with 3.8, but I switched computers so it's not exactly a controlled comparison.

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Never had a prob for me. I ALT-tab all the time - pasting in screen shots to make a powerpoint w/all the units. I must have ALT-tabbed a million times now! No issues.

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No problems for me, and I also alt-tab out all the time...

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Both versions have been rock solid for me- but I've also disabled gl extensions because I'm using Intel "Graphics". I think a lot of alt-tab errors are due to graphics, but I'm basing that on nothing solid, just a hunch. Resolution changes? Is your game set to your same res. as the desktop?

As an experiment, does it still crash if you create a shortcut to the game's exe
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>"C:\whatever Location\Dom3 folder\dom3.exe" --noglext</pre><hr />

There'd be a way to fix it other than disabling it, but if this did/did not work, it would tell me something.

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I avoid alt-tabbing now, since my graphics card sometimes goes on the fritz. I'm not sure though if it was 3.10 that caused that, or because my graphics card is kind of old and worn-out. It only started happening recently though, so who knows?

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3.10 has been stable and solid for me.
For extremely large battles 200+ commanders and 1000+ units I will toggle the 'W' to speed the process of watching battles.
No lockups, freezing, or crashes with 3.10

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Haven't had any problems.

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It not a solution for me, I get a weird mouse bug were the cursor is about 1/4 an inch off where it should be. makes windowed mode uplayable for me. Anybody else have this problem?

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I also have this proble. (I am on windows XP)

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I also have that problem, but if I move the window it is corrected.

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No problems here, and I'm running it on vista, in fullscreen mode, on a widescreen, in a different resolution to my moniter. I think Dom3 is the most stable computer game I've ever played.

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The only problem I've had is if you delete a game folder and make a new game with that same name, the map is all messed up. Graphically, it remembers the map from the deleted folder, so the locations and neighbors are all messed up. The only way to fix it is to shut down Dominions and restart.

I'm honestly not sure if this is even 3.10 specific, and it's honestly not that big a deal so I didn't bother reporting it.

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Ever since switching to 3.10, I've noticed some bizarre things occur in the game. When playing against AI, one of their forces occupied my home province and started seiging my fort. When I sent in a force to kick them out (and they did succeed in taking them out), the game ended with the AI winning, saying I didn't have any provinces left, when I actually had about 4. Then another weird bug just happened where it's reporting provinces that I control as containing enemy units, but the list of enemy units reported are actually my units. I can even order them around, so I know I didn't somehow accidentally load the AI player's turn. I've also seen a few odd incidents where I have had vastly superior forces who rout before a single shot is fired in battles versus an AI defending force consisting of approximately 10 grunts and an ordinary commander.

None of this happened in the previous patch. It's like the AI is suddenly cheating just because I updated the game. Also, I know its not the difficulty level because I ran a game specifically to test this against an easy defensive AI, and it's still doing these things. Did something get seriously borked or am I just going to have to revert to 3.08?

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I suggest uninstalling the game, deleting the installation folders (after copying the games you want to preserve) and reinstalling. That should solve your problems. The own units reported as enemy has appeared prior to 3.10, so it is an existing but very rare issue. Also in the shortlist, I believe.

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Got a red screen of death here only on 3.10b. 3.08 was fine.

I'm playing on mac OS X and when trying to connect to a server (which is updated to 3.10, hosted by a PC running windows), I get a red screen of death right after the port number window. Any clue here?

I deleted and reinstalled the game and ran the patch to 3.10b. I also deleted my dominions3 folder. I don't see anything else that could affect the game and I believe it's a game bug, as it worked fine on 3.08.

Unless of course everyone reinstall and apply the 3.08 patch and stay away from 3.10!

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That one is a real bug, which like most bugs have been the case since the first version. It happens often when people want to Blitz and the host has to redo the first turn because somebody messed up and/or they just want to use another map.

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Vega, that sounds just like I had... when I had what turned out to be an illegal copy. Did you get it from the shop here or via less reliable ways?

In my 3.08 I had the game crashed after most SP turns.

If this was the case for you there is a great probability you have the same problem I had.

I easily improved it with 55 dollar though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif