1.07.6 beta is unofficially officially UNSTABLE!

[Kayoz]

ORIGINAL: Neotheone

I concur but we must remember these are indie developers and thus they don't have the motivation or most likely time like the big boys do.

I used to use Wise, but meh, Installshield is still Orca based.

It doesn't take a lot of time or effort to put together a basic msi install. It's shockingly easy - one of the things M$ got seriously right... even more so if you remember the old installation nightmares of Win3.1 and Win95.

[Erik Rutins]

Guys, there's nothing wrong with the installer and no need to to a complete clean reinstall with every update.

Neo, I think it's worth reminding you that you were by choice playing with beta updates and continuing saved games across multiple beta updates. While we try to make sure that will cause no problems, there are no guarantees. If starting a new game resolved the crash issues, then it was almost certainly an issue introduced in one of the beta updates.

Regards,

- Erik

[Neotheone]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Guys, there's nothing wrong with the installer and no need to to a complete clean reinstall with every update.

Neo, I think it's worth reminding you that you were by choice playing with beta updates and continuing saved games across multiple beta updates. While we try to make sure that will cause no problems, there are no guarantees. If starting a new game resolved the crash issues, then it was almost certainly an issue introduced in one of the beta updates.

Regards,

- Erik

But isn't beta 1.07.06 still the Official Patch you just released? I mean how much did you change in a day? Plus I haven't gotten to the point of that old saved game where the game started crashing so hold your horses on the crash issues are "resolved". When I get to the Shakturi revealing themselves and declaring war and 62 colonies and thousands of ships and it works flawlessly then you can pat yourself on the back of resolvement. Until then it's still hit and miss on this issue.

[Robert Henderson]

I'm having problems with the game freezing and locking up, in particular when I simply try and zoom out or in using the mouse wheel.

The problems are significant enough to render it simply not enjoyable to play (and for a what is was worth, .04 ran flawlessly for me).

Is there a way to uninstall the .06 update and return to the .04 without uninstalling all three games?

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: Neotheone
But isn't beta 1.07.06 still the Official Patch you just released? I mean how much did you change in a day? Plus I haven't gotten to the point of that old saved game where the game started crashing so hold your horses on the crash issues are "resolved". When I get to the Shakturi revealing themselves and declaring war and 62 colonies and thousands of ships and it works flawlessly then you can pat yourself on the back of resolvement. Until then it's still hit and miss on this issue.

I think you're missing my point. Let me just say there is no back-patting here.

Regards,

- Erik

[Erik Rutins]

Hi McKinstry,

ORIGINAL: McKinstry
I'm having problems with the game freezing and locking up, in particular when I simply try and zoom out or in using the mouse wheel.

The problems are significant enough to render it simply not enjoyable to play (and for a what is was worth, .04 ran flawlessly for me).

Is there a way to uninstall the .06 update and return to the .04 without uninstalling all three games?

Can you give us more information on these issues? Is this with an old save file or a new game? Are you seeing any error messages? Is this simply very slow performance or does the game completely lock up for you?

Does this happen in all games, even if you start a new one?

Regards,

- Erik

[Robert Henderson]

New games only (I didn't try a loaded save). Runs very slow, great difficulty/delays in partucular when zooming and after a bit it stops and I get the IE message that it has stopped working, checking the problem etc.

[Robert Henderson]

I went and ahead and did a full uninstall/reinstall and it seems OK.

[elliotg]

ORIGINAL: solops
Distant Worlds - Crash Dump - 1.7.0.6
7:45:52 AM Friday, December 09, 2011

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at DistantWorlds.Types.Galaxy.AssignPirateShipMissions(Empire pirateEmpire)
  at DistantWorlds.Types.Galaxy.AssignPirateShipMissions()
  at DistantWorlds.Types.Galaxy.DoTasks(Boolean gameFinished, Empire playerEmpire, VictoryConditions globalVictoryConditions, EmpireVictoryConditions playerConditionsToAchieve, EmpireVictoryConditions playerConditionsToPrevent)
  at DistantWorlds.Main.0B7XyPQY775OKQ4c7rf(Object , Boolean , Object , Object , Object , Object )
  at DistantWorlds.Main.icFxyECTqa(Object )

--- COMPLETE ---

This help?

Thanks for this report. Fixed in the next update

[elliotg]

ORIGINAL: McKinstry
New games only (I didn't try a loaded save). Runs very slow, great difficulty/delays in partucular when zooming and after a bit it stops and I get the IE message that it has stopped working, checking the problem etc.

Good to see you have things working ok now, but remember you can always post the contents of the following crash file to help with diagnosing a crash:

C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Code Force Limited\Distant Worlds\1.7.0.6\DW_CrashDump.txt

Thanks
Elliot

[El Vis]

I encountered also some reproduceable "Distant Worlds has Stopped Working" bugs on both of my computers. Regardless which save I tried.
Here is the content of the crashfile:

Distant Worlds - Crash Dump - 1.7.0.6

07:53:32 Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011


System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt. (Translation: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.)
bei DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.DisbandExcessTroops()
bei DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.DoTasks()
bei DistantWorlds.Main.Os2yk7Q8jDxAByp2Uqj(Object )
bei DistantWorlds.Main.icFxyECTqa(Object )


--- COMPLETE ---


Hope this helps[:)]

[elliotg]

Thanks for the report El Vis. This is fixed in the next update.

[sveint]

Distant Worlds - Crash Dump - 1.7.0.6

16:48:04 10 December 2011


System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.ReviewSystemThreats()
at DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.DoTasks()
at DistantWorlds.Main.Os2yk7Q8jDxAByp2Uqj(Object )
at DistantWorlds.Main.icFxyECTqa(Object )


--- COMPLETE ---

[elliotg]

Thanks sveint. This crash is also fixed in the next update