As a simple example, I have many fleets with 4 variants of a frigate class - beam frigate, torpedo frigate, missile frigate, and railgun frigate. Using retrofit from the fleet tab causes them all to be upgraded to the most recent beam figate design instead of preserving their individual variants. I ...

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My commands to fleets/ships are still overwritten by the computer.<br/>
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Its thus still unplayable and I will wait for the next patch.
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Have you adjusted the "Range" setting for your fleets? It defaults ...

<r> I had this same problem right after launch. It turns out that the only change I had to make was to set DistantWorlds.exe to run in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode. See the thread at <LINK link="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2414346"><s>[link=http://www.matrixgames.com ...

Thanks Erik. I tried reinstalling with ESET turned off and still had the error. No big deal since I have the game working now. Terl - I left everything as default for the install - including the directory. Thanks for the suggestion.

<t> It turns out that the only change I had to make was to set DistantWorlds.exe to run in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) compatibility mode. I turned off the "Run as Admin" and clearewd everything from DistWorldrez.exe - it just looked unusual enough that I thought it might be involved in the ...

Okay, I got it to work. I set both DistantWorlds.exe and DistWorldrez.exe to run as Administrator and in Windows XP compatibility mode. I'm not sure I needed all that and will start removing some of the settings to see the minimum to make the game run. I'll post my findings.

<t> The anti-virus/security software (ESET Smart Security) was on during the install but I have subsequently turned it off along with the firewall. There were no errors during the install and I've attached the DxDiag file. Do you think I should try reinstalling with security off? This hasn't been a ...

No spaces. There's also a serialreg.txt in the program directory and the serial # looks fine there.

<r> I can't run Distant Worlds and get this error when trying to start the game:<br/>
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There is an error with your serial number as entered. Please contact <EMAIL email="support@matrixgames.com">support@matrixgames.com</EMAIL> for assistance. Error Code: -1073741819<br/>
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I tried ...