New Distant Worlds v1.7.0.6 Public Beta Now Available!

[Gelatinous Cube]

ORIGINAL: Tormodino

Hola! Just wondering if there is supposed to be another patch incoming soonish or if I should give this one a spin. Anyone know what time they usually release?

This should be the last one before the official patch. I'd say you probably have time to give it a whirl! Either way, any upcoming patches are likely to be backwards compatible with this one, like all the previous ones have been.

[ASHBERY76]

Is this the last update for the weekend?

[Erik Rutins]

This version will become the first official update today. There will be future beta updates that eventually become the second official update.

Regards,

- Erik

[Caesar_Augustus]

Wow.. from beta to beta to official patch...

What warp, or should I say, what transwarp speed are you developers traveling at??? [&o]

[J HG T]

ORIGINAL: Caesar_Augustus

What warp, or should I say, what transwarp speed are you developers traveling at??? [&o]

Fully upgraded Temporal engine with Jumpgator MM, maybe?

BTW, have to say that I love this "beta patch" style where you can play parts of the official patch in advance. Especially when the beta patches are relatively bug free in general.

[Upuauta]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

This version will become the first official update today. There will be future beta updates that eventually become the second official update.

Regards,

- Erik

Is there any ETA, to when it will be released today so it can be downloaded with the update-loader?
TIA

[Erik Rutins]

Later this afternoon US Eastern time, so in the next for our five hours I'd guess.

Regards,

- Erik

[Gzu]

Dear DW dev team i really appreciate your hard work.
But i'm worried that you will burn out.
Today we have friday so please go the pub, have some beer and RELAX [:)]

PLEASE [&o]

BTW. Hi to everybody on forum (my 1 post)

[the1sean]

Welcome to the community Gzu! Are you a newcomer to DW, or have you been playing for a while?

[Gzu]

About 50h of gameplay ROTS + Legends total.

I belive there is a lot of players who only read forums(like me until today).

Sorry for offtop

[colonyan]

More customer means more money for DW team. More money for DW team means they can work on the game longer or make!
Its a good thing! [:)]

Dear DW dev team i really appreciate your hard work.
But i'm worried that you will burn out.
Today we have friday so please go the pub, have some beer and RELAX

PLEASE

I will repeat this. Take care.

[Webbco]

Welcome Gzu, hope you're enjoying DW!!

[Upuauta]

Short info: the update to version 1.7.0.6 is up and can be downloaded through the update-loader.

[Evrett]

/cry updater is not updating for for..it says there is a new update but freezes up at the downloading file point 

[tomjoolz]

Worked fine for me.

[Gelatinous Cube]

Ive never gotten the Matrix auto-updater to work.. for either DW or Armada 2526.

I'm sure this is an issue with my computer settings, just not sure where.

[Neotheone]

Well I didn't have nutthin but problems with the 1.07.6 beta and went back to 1.07.5 and been playing all day and not a crash or a popup error box or anything. Something buggy about 1.07.6 for me and it's no big deal there's not enough in 1.07.6 to matter to me as long as I can play without crashes and error messages.

[Gelatinous Cube]

ORIGINAL: Neotheone

Well I didn't have nutthin but problems with the 1.07.6 beta and went back to 1.07.5 and been playing all day and not a crash or a popup error box or anything. Something buggy about 1.07.6 for me and it's no big deal there's not enough in 1.07.6 to matter to me as long as I can play without crashes and error messages.

This might sound silly, since I'm actually really bad with computers (and can only state what I think I know):

I had a problem with DW giving me CONSTANT "Undefined Exception" errors at seemingly random and increasingly problematic points. The problem was this: tm.asp?m=2973379

Distant Worlds was originally a garage project, and despite the generally slick interface (IMO) it uses some very unusual methods for storing and retrieving data. Methods that are easily disrupted by Windows 7, it seems. By running DW as an Administrator, and making sure that nothing funky is going on in your C/Users/<user name>/ect... folder-tree you may be able to solve your problems.

The only reason I bring this up is that you seem to have experienced some rather unusual and unique problems with the last patch, and this is the biggest computer-related issue i've come across with DW.

[Neotheone]

Yeah I'm running Vista64 too. But, it doesn't make sense since it's the same game and I've NEVER had ANY issues with it previously with any updates or patches. So, I can't believe it's MY SYSTEM as if it were these issues would have shown up before. SO, it has to be in the recent programming changes in 1.07.6

I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game completely cleaning my registry of all Distant World files, loaded all the files and updates and then 1.07.6 and then loaded the old save file and within a few minutes BOOM "Distant Worlds has ceased to function properly" sucks to be you, close program stuff. lol So, then I uninstalled it all again and reinstalled up to 1.07.5 beta and haven't had an issue or problem since. It's even running that old saved game file that 1.07.6 won't run. The only thing that was wonky in the reinstall of 1.07.5 and reloading that old saved game is a ton of my military ships made a beeline for the Guardians whom I had been at war with but made peace but they just kept on going there. I soon got ahold of all of them and sent them to another colony nearby and once I rounded all the ones that were going to the Guardians home planet and sent them to different places it was fine again and the Guardians were happy.

Then all hell broke lose as the Shaturi and two more races decided I am prime beef now and now I have a war on my hands and don't know what NaN means in the colony tax row?

[Gelatinous Cube]

NaN.. I have no idea. I don't think i've ever seen that. I don't have any good advice to give you for the Shakturi.. my forte is apparently elaborate defenses. I'm still figuring out the art of attack and counter-attack to a degree I feel is properly proficient. I can only wish you luck!

For the other issue:

I want you to try something... go to the folder-tree I specified above, right-click it, go to properties, and then de-select read-only for the ENTIRE folder tree. Windows will automatically re-secure the important vital folders immediately, but if your DW temp folders had been inadvertantly set to read-only then this will solve your problems.