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I don't do Steam, so I'm waiting eagerly for the next official update release to start a new game. I like what I've read as far as all of the improvements and fixes since the last official update release!

same here dont wanna commit to a game until new stable. whats going on a whole new month now.

Updated the first post to reflect the new 1.0.6.2 beta, available today. For those still having combat or other crashes, PLEASE try the 1.0.6.2 beta and especially note this new game settings option:

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you still experience crashes with 1.0.6.2 or later, especially crashes in battle, please try the new DXVK rendering option in the game settings. This can be found under "Rendering Mode", which can be switched from DirectX 11 to DXVK. This will likely resolve many issues caused by driver bugs or incompatibilities. If you try this setting and the game does not launch, please note the command line option in the changes below to switch back to DirectX 11.

Ships are still jumpng forever "Speed X (Jumping)" till you focus them and zoom in. As you zoomed in they jump instantly. New game since version 1.0.6.0.

fruitgnome wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:29 pm Ships are still jumpng forever "Speed X (Jumping)" till you focus them and zoom in. As you zoomed in they jump instantly. New game since version 1.0.6.0.

How long is "forever" in your testing? Does this involve ships with fighters?

Do you have a save file that duplicates this for you that you could share with us?

Yes, the 11th Fleet has fighters. I tested now a savegame 1111 in detail. (Where I can upload it? It is 86 MB big.
If I not zoom in to 11th Fleet it takes 6 month till the fleet start attack gravilex. Then reload savegame and zoom in to the 11th fleet and they fly instantly to attack the gravilex.

Looks like higher resolutions aren't available for Vulkan (Forcing me to 1920x1080).
Also may want to put in a dialogue stating restart is required for that change.

Cheers,

fruitgnome wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:52 pm Yes, the 11th Fleet has fighters. I tested now a savegame 1111 in detail. (Where I can upload it? It is 86 MB big.
If I not zoom in to 11th Fleet it takes 6 month till the fleet start attack gravilex. Then reload savegame and zoom in to the 11th fleet and they fly instantly to attack the gravilex.

If you zip it up you should be able to post it as an attachment, or e-mail it to me at erikr@matrixgames.com, or use a site like wetransfer.com and post a download link here.

Kotopup wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:00 pm Looks like higher resolutions aren't available for Vulkan (Forcing me to 1920x1080).
Also may want to put in a dialogue stating restart is required for that change.

There is a tooltip on the choice saying a restart is required, but we'll add it to the change list as well.

Switching to DXVK should not limit your resolution. We are able to use it fine with 4k here. Could you please double-check that and if you really can't switch to higher than 1920x1080, please share a DxDiag with us.

Here's a screenshot and my dxdiag.

Running ultrawide, 3440x1440 144hz. Only options i can select are shown.

Thanks,

Kotopup wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:00 pm Looks like higher resolutions aren't available for Vulkan (Forcing me to 1920x1080).
Also may want to put in a dialogue stating restart is required for that change.

Cheers,

After restart DW2 turns to this Vulkan is supported by Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5.
Am I missing something, never used DXVK before DW2, or is [1.0.6.2] something missing?

Try turning off HDR under DXVK?

TylerIN wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 12:14 am Try turning off HDR under DXVK?

Thanks

Kotopup wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:00 pm Here's a screenshot and my dxdiag.

Running ultrawide, 3440x1440 144hz. Only options i can select are shown.

Thanks,

Found a workaround, i disabled my 2 other monitors (that are max 1080p). looks like the game isn't pulling resolution from the primary monitor, possibly "monitor 1"

edit : Re-enabled my other monitors, tried to access Settings in game and it crashed to desktop. It didn't like that lol

Anybody else sees the problem where when the fleet is ordered to refuel and refit at starport, some of the ships instead of queuing up at the startport start to fly aimlessly away from the port at sublight speed. Had this happen multiple times. Excluding them from the fleet usually fixes it but still so strange...

One other issue i saw the other day is that in the area where new resource locations are listed the icons to order construction of the mining base were simply gone. The locations are still listed but the right side buttons are missing. Hope that helps.

Mail sent with wetransfer, thx 4 support.

Erik Rutins wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:47 pm

fruitgnome wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:52 pm Yes, the 11th Fleet has fighters. I tested now a savegame 1111 in detail. (Where I can upload it? It is 86 MB big.
If I not zoom in to 11th Fleet it takes 6 month till the fleet start attack gravilex. Then reload savegame and zoom in to the 11th fleet and they fly instantly to attack the gravilex.

If you zip it up you should be able to post it as an attachment, or e-mail it to me at erikr@matrixgames.com, or use a site like wetransfer.com and post a download link here.

Started a fresh game on a 1000 star small map with one of each race seeded and so far smooth as butter even late game. Haven't noticed any irregularities in gameplay but nebula are still a performance hog making my 3080 spin up to full load when I zoom into one. AI empires were given a tech 1 boost as I did a prewarp and by the time I got to them they were all just slightly ahead of me tech wise and had spread nicely. So the AI empires are still a bit slow to develop it seems unless you give them an advantage. But they are giving a good fight so far with the starting boost so no complaints.

What does my 8th fleet want there?

I've had that happen - clicking on something in the UI - but game think's I've still got a fleet selected - so then it decides what I mean is to move my fleet a galaxy away into the pointless dark between.

Should be some sort of reality-check-constraints so it doesn't do that to us, IMO.

fruitgnome wrote: Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:43 pm What does my 8th fleet want there?

Sorry, but I have to say this:
Looks like the caretaker put you in the delta quadrant. Had not enough time to explain it to you.

Hmm... but as a side note, I recently started watching voyager again:
They were sent 70.000 Lightyears from home, but are still in the same galaxy (of course..?!) ..
Would be interesting how the size in our game galaxy is. But there are also in a distant future hopefully plans to implement a scale