SE5 - 1.17 Patch Out

[Phoenix-D]

Correction- I was running my tests in the simulator. When I do the actual attack, the game crashes at the end of Strategic combat..

[Raapys]

That's not regular frigates the Phong fleet has, though, it's 6 crystal frigates and 2 crystal destroyers, with even better weapons than yours and crystalline armor. They got way too little armor, however, which is why your ships win most of the time.

I've to admit, though: it does look as if your ships win more easily in strategic combat than in tactical. Not sure if they do in fact work exactly the same, or if some changes has been done to strategic combat to speed it up a bit, which could possibly slightly affect the ships' performance.

*edit* Scratch that. The first few times I ran the combat barely two of your ships survived, but the last 10 times a minimum of 5 of your ships have survived. Just the wonders of computer randomization I guess.

You got dual core as well, Phoenix?

[Phoenix-D]

That I do.

[mrscrogg]

I just got my copy of SE5 today . uploaded game and upgraded DirectX - tried uploading patch got message " file corrupted optain new copy of program " deleted everything reinstalled game went to different site for patch and again got same message - tried a third time , same thing - what am I doing wrong ?

[Phoenix-D]

Did you buy a boxed copy or Steam download? Steam has its own patch that is applied automatically..

[mrscrogg]

I have boxed copy

[geoschmo]

I was having a similer problem when I patched to 1.17. The game was getting errors and wouldn't load after patching so I uninstalled and reinstalled and then was getting an error that the source was corrupted when trying to load it again fomr the CD. I ended up trying it a couple times and it finally worked when I installed and changed the directory name. I thought that was very strange since I had deleted the original directory anyway. I chalked it up to a dirty cd drive because since then it's worked fine, but it sounds similer to your problem.

[StarJack]

Phoenix-D said:
Correction- I was running my tests in the simulator. When I do the actual attack, the game crashes at the end of Strategic combat..

I've made some more discoveries. On my system when running in full screen mode strategic combat (SC) does not play combat sounds, and gets the Access Violation (AV) when the closing the combat window. Playing in windowed mode SC plays combat sounds, and does NOT crash when complete! I discovered this by accident as tech support e-mailed me back and suggested I update drivers for video and sound. As it turns out ATI has released new drivers/application software in November so I updated. I also found out windoze was failing to locate a new audio driver, but I was able to find a somewhat more recent driver via the internet. Alas, the new drivers had no effect on the results mentioned above.
I recently bought Flight Sim X and my poor little X300 was showing it's limited ability so I went out and sprang for a new Radeon X1600 Pro. (Long story, there're better cards but I'm going to buy a new system next fall and this was a good compromise and a large step up from the X300) Again, alas, the same results were had with SEV (Flight Sim X plays much better at a higher level of detail now though!) as posted above.
I e-mailed tech support (and copied malfador support) with the results. My thinking is that since SC had the AV in 1.0, stopped having AV's in 1.08, and now has them again in 1.17 (didn't play 1.13) it's a change (somewhere, somehow) in the game code, not an issue with my drivers (although having latest drivers is usually a good thing). I also loaded the game on my laptop (Sony VGN-A690) and got the exact same results.
At least now I have 2 work around, play windowed (nahhh) or use tactical combat and let 'em fight it out. Maybe a later version will correct this, it's happened before! I just wanted to keep the folks who have been kind enough to be helpful updated. Thanks!!!

[Baal]

On a ship full of troops I had all the cargo components destroyed yet the troops were not also destroyed for occupying those cargo components. They just sat there safe and sound while I got the cargo pods repaired.