<t> I'm in the late game - era III - and I'm unable to delete items from the production queue. I have 2 items in the queue and I want to delete the first, but cannot. Double clicking does not work on either item. This is happening in more than 1 city - 3 I believe. Unfortunately, the first item in ...

The game will not load at all. From the main menu, I get the message "Distant Worlds has stopped working".
I don't think I'm on the current version, but how do I tell?
Am I going to have to re-install both games?

<t> I'm not able to download the update. I go the Armada product page and click the download option - that's ok. However, in the next screen where the various downloads are listed, clicking the download link for the update is not working. I'm not getting any IE8 messages saying the download has been ...

Anyone doing a wiki for DW ?

The selection panel is not updated until you unpause the game - by design I believe.

The best way is turn off allowing the AI to design and build ships. Design them yourself and build them yourself. The game will suggest you build something, but it will be your choice.

I'm sure this might have been requested, but it's such a long thread and I'm being lazy and not searching......

How about being able to create more than 10 fleets.

<t> On the options screen there is a box that if checked allows the building of colonies and mining facilities in other races systems. If this is not checked, does that also prevent other aliens from building stuff in your systems? If so, it does not appear to be working. Are there exceptions to ...

Yes, I have the latest Windows Media Player installed, and it is up to date - no updates outstanding. However, I have just found out that I have another IE8 update waiting.

I also agree that it would be nice to know when construction has stalled for whatever reason. I've just had construction on a space port pick up again after it was stopped and I wondered what was happening. Thanks to you guys/gals posting, I now know what to look for.

AI is designing ships with armour for me. In fact it's putting lots of armour on my ships - about 10 pieces per ship.

<t> Reloading the saved game seems to have corrected the problem. Any ideas about the cause? The Galatopedia is working just fine, as are the pop up boxes.<br/>
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The only other thing I have noticed is that the videos do not always play at startup - I get a blank screen. Clicking to continue ...

I have installed the latest patch, but now I'm not seeing any messages in the scrolling message box. I have a saved game if you need it.

Erik, I don't think this is fixed yet, because I got the same thing today with the new patch installed. I've got a dual core, Vista 64-bit, 6GB Ram, 9600GT video card.

Ah!! I see - I did not realize that they could co-exist.
However, here is a posing question ----
When I install version 1.0.1 from the CD, the game works fine.
I install the patch, and I'm missing DirectX9.
How did it get deleted in an unzip install ?

So you are saying that I need to go back to DirectX 9?
I'm currently running Vista 64bit with DirectX 11.
Also, I'm completely up to date with updates.

Thanks - I appreciate any help you can give.
However according "dxdiag" I'm on Directx 11.
The only update I've done is to the game.

Thanks - I tried earlier, but my security software is blocking the site.
I followed the instructions to unblock the site, but still no luck.
So now I'm waiting for a response from the security software vendor [:)]

<t> After installing the latest beta patch, I'm getting a message saying that Direct3DX9 is not installed. <br/>
Everything works prior to applying the patch. I checked this by uninstalling the base game and reinstalling again - the game started.<br/>
I am using VISTA 64bit.<br/>
Any ideas what ...