New Patch (v.3.06) For Dominions 3: The Awakening!

[lch]

Remmy said:
For some reason about 10 minutes into playing the game all the in-game interface disappears and I have to alt tab to quit the game. This happens with every computer i've installed this game on with the newest patch and doesnt happen at all with 3.04 or unpatched.

I had similar problems with 3.06 on Linux, I think it depends on your map screen. All text vanishes, you only see background graphics. Maybe I still have a savegame where this happens, I'll have to search for it.

You can get weird effects on the battle screen, too. Have lots and lots of units with natural aura effects like a Heat aura, and cast some more aura effects like Divine Bless, Heat from Hell and so on. This should mess up the graphics and either let one of your auras begin to cycle through all kinds of symbols before the game crashes with an error message, or displace all your units with big, honking, white A's which are rotated by 90° counter-clockwise.

I got display errors in one Dom3 window when I launched the game a second time, too, the screen went messy with lots of colors and only restarting the program helped.

[Murph]

I'm having this same problem. Every 2-5 turns the GUI just disappears. I'm running a 1.7 gig pentium with windows XP. The problem only started with the new patch, and it's basically making the game unplayable for me. I have to ctr-alt-del and end process on the game to get it to quit.

[Yrkoon]

I have that problem too. I noticed that the GUI disappears ONLY when I have a look at a commander (I rename a lot of them) from the main map, then go back to the main map again. I doesn't always happen, but every 2-5 turn is a good approximation.

There is a easy fix to this, at least in my case : I don't look at the commanders from the main map. Instead, I open the army setup for the province where the commander is (shortcut : t) and I look at the commander from there. The GUI never disappears when I close the army setup.

So to sum up:

Main map -> Commander view -> Main map : GUI disappears
Main map -> Army setup -> Commander view -> Army setup -> Main map : No problem at all

I hope this works for you.

[Edi]

It's rather bizarre. I've had no problems whatsoever with the new patch. I patched to 3.04 originally and then to 3.06 and never had anything at all. The only thing that I sometimes see disappearing is the commander actions menu when you click on the orders button, and that because the game displaces the action menu off the screen. Esc --> try again brings it back onscreen every time.

Edi

[Murph]

Yes, I noticed the bug only occurs when I'm coming back to the main map after selecting a commander, but going in to the commander view through the army setup isn't a workable long-term fix, I'm afraid. I'm often working with provinces that have lots of commanders, and I tend to sort them by what they're doing, which is not something that I can see from the army set-up screen. Also, I don't usually bother to rename commanders, so trying to remember if its Xutholchi or Xuchantipi that's supposed to be the one I'm giving the jade knife to isn't something that I'm really interested in doing, although I suppose it would be a helpful memory training exercise.

Basically, though, I'm not that interested in a difficult work-around - I think for the time being I'll go back to the 3.04 patch, which worked fine for me. I hope this is something the devs can fix, though.

[NTJedi]

Edi said:
It's rather bizarre. I've had no problems whatsoever with the new patch. I patched to 3.04 originally and then to 3.06 and never had anything at all.
Edi

I agree... no problems at all after patching to 3.06

[NTJedi]

This topic should be unstickied... so the next new patch can have a new start.

[Edi]

It'll get unstickied in time. After we actually have a new patch and that one is still in the works. Patience.

Edi

EDIT: NT Jedi's reply to this post moved to the Bug Discussion thread