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Heavy stability probs

December 21, 2016 1:28:30 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Using the most recent incarnation of the 1.9er opt-in the game does crash/freeze for me heavily.

I had two freezes in which I could not even shut down the game/my machine anymore regularly - had to power off to reboot. In another instance after launching the game and going through the game setup my machine went off itself.

The most recent freeze did come after I had validated all my my files and switched to no mods again (in reaction to the game shutting off my computer earlier).

 

I never had stability probs like these explicit crashes or freezes before (not counting the "stuck on wait" problem, which is still there, but does *not* end in a crash or a complete freeze - I could always exit or save/reload normally when it occured in recent games)

 

Does anybody has similar probs or an idea what to do?

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #1 December 21, 2016 2:05:40 PM
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I have not had any issues with the game with the new patch...

I would suggest you submit a ticket, please see the following post if you have questions on how to do this.

https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/

 

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Reply #2 December 21, 2016 2:20:59 PM
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This is the first report I've seen of serious stability issues with 1.9. Please submit a ticket and we'll help you out.  

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Reply #3 December 21, 2016 4:55:15 PM
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I too have a lot of crashes since 1.9 and had none before.

I already posted on steam forums a few days ago and also submitted a ticket.

Ticket ID: OAP-979-47078

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Reply #4 December 22, 2016 6:22:39 AM
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Thx guys, I give it another go after xmas, if the probs persist I'll file a ticket indeed.

 

edit: steam did another small dl for GC3 right now for me, I'll see how it goes with that...

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Reply #5 December 22, 2016 8:48:05 AM
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Yes, since the last update that happened to 1.90 I can no longer load a saved game or even start a new one.  It crashes once the galaxy starts spinning.  It was working earlier in the week (earlier versions of 1.90).  I have already submitted a trouble ticket ZUH-507-61622

 

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Reply #6 December 22, 2016 11:14:46 AM
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I am currently playing Insane +50 civs and no crashes. 

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Reply #7 December 22, 2016 11:39:38 AM
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Quoting Larsenex,
reply 6

I am currently playing Insane +50 civs and no crashes. 

Insane 90+ AI no crashes.

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Reply #8 December 22, 2016 12:20:17 PM
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Quoting Seilore,
reply 7


Quoting Larsenex,
reply 6

I am currently playing Insane +50 civs and no crashes. 



Insane 90+ AI no crashes.

Glad to hear that you are always stressing our game to its limits

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Reply #9 December 22, 2016 12:40:24 PM
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immense, 100+ turns, started on stock 1.90, reloaded and played fine with the last hot fix.

 

I would note that I needed to remove some mods when I first went to 1.90, as it wouldn't startup correctly. If you are having issues, I'd remove any mods (or clean install) before sending a ticket.

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Reply #10 December 22, 2016 12:56:08 PM
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I do not have any mods.  I have already submitted a ticket yesterday.

 

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Reply #11 December 22, 2016 12:58:58 PM
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I`m ~16h in my actual game. In the first ~13h I had ~30 ctd`s while I had none in the last 3h.

Strange thing is it still crashed with the latest version of 1.9 and then it suddenly stopped crashing without any further changes. Or I was just lucky in the last 3h. I don`t know since it crashed often but very erratic.  

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Reply #12 December 26, 2016 10:06:21 AM
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OK, I did another test run and fortunately these crashes/freezes did not occur anymore. I'm surprised as I thought the most recent dl was only the update regarding mapsizes, but I'm surely not complaining that stability is now good again (from what I've played so far - two games up to turn 100+) 

 

Sorry if the thread sounded too alarmist, but those sudden crashes/freezes were no fun certainly. Still a mystery why I had them at all.

Besides the last update the only things I did was getting a new gfx driver (the previous one never caused any trouble though) and doing some disc maintenance (defrag is on auto, but I got rid of quite a bunch of junk files).

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Reply #13 December 26, 2016 10:44:28 AM
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Like I said my crashes also just suddenly stopped. I could finish my game without any further ctd`s.

I have no idea why it crashed nor why it then stopped crashing, as I also thought the last patch was only about map sizes.

And in my case it still crashed after the last patch and then later suddenly started to work normally.

Strange but fine that it`s working again. I`m not sure if would also work when I`d start a new game.

Maybe whatever triggered the crashes was just gone from one turn to another.

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Reply #14 December 27, 2016 2:57:34 PM
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Quoting Ralle2,
reply 13

Like I said my crashes also just suddenly stopped. I could finish my game without any further ctd`s.

I have no idea why it crashed nor why it then stopped crashing, as I also thought the last patch was only about map sizes.

And in my case it still crashed after the last patch and then later suddenly started to work normally.

Strange but fine that it`s working again. I`m not sure if would also work when I`d start a new game.

Maybe whatever triggered the crashes was just gone from one turn to another.

Darn Gremlins  Glad that the issue is no longer a problem.  

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