Devs, any luck with the invasion hangings?

The invasion hang bug is happening a lot this version. Devs, any progress finding the problem yet?

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I sent a data package last night and within 15 minutes got an email thanking me and saying they were working very hard on it. But no word on progress.

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Derek posted about it in the the thread:

https://forums.galciv3.com/464463/page/1/#3544544

he said it was going to make it to patch #2 because it was difficult to fix. I don't know if we should keep sending saved games though. And I don't know when is patch 2, I'm guessing early next week, or end of this week, depending on how it goes, so we can play, I mean, test the game

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The difficulty is that, from my experience, the saves with the problem are not often repeatable. I get the hang, exit the game, reload and the invasion works fine. So sending a save doesn't help. : /

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Quoting TheBirthdayParty,

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The difficulty is that, from my experience, the saves with the problem are not often repeatable. I get the hang, exit the game, reload and the invasion works fine. So sending a save doesn't help. : /

well, sometimes, it may not hang a planet, but will on another. Devs could play the game a few turns and only care about invading AI planets until it freezes, not about empire management.

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I think a saved game is helpful if combined with a TM forced dump before one kills the GC3 process when it happens. I find that yes sometimes it works and sometimes not, but if I try a few times it will fail again. So I think there is a fair chance it might be reproducible at SD. The crash dump has to be useful in any case, and I think that a save file helps with the interpretation of the dump file.

But it may be wishful thinking, but I agree with redviper37. Maybe they can get lucky, and if I send a save file that I know has failed at least once, then they have a fighting chance.

It's a bad boy though for sure.

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In my experience it always happened the 2nd planet I invaded after i encountered the bug and reloaded.

So if i have 10 planets on my list to invade, and it crashed on invading the 4th planet f.e., i will load the autosave from a turn before.

Now the 4th planet invasion will go fine, but the 5th one creates a crash. Hence and repeat.

If the crash happens during an autosave transition however, I noticed that the game itself does not actually crash, but it merely is a graphics error. Pressing esc f.e. will 'exit' and complete the invasion, and trigger an autosave, however you are just facing a BlackSOD which you can kill with task manager.

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I posted this on Twitter about this bug.

@Stardock #galacticciv3 the main bug being the black screen as the Nvidia driver crashed out in planetary invasions about 50% of the time.

And got this reply from Brad Wardell

"@Giskarduk @Stardock we're all over that one."

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