[BUGS/CRASHES] Selections/Random Shutdowns

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CRASHES:

  • Since Alt-Tab doesn't seem to work for me (the game stays on a black screen when I try to return to it), I thought I would put the game into windowed mode.  I unchecked "Fullscreen" and restarted the game as prompted.  When I reached the main menu, however, the game shut down after a second for no apparent reason.
         (I didn't snag the debug files for this one (sorry, lapse of judgment), but it didn't happen again when I reloaded the game a second time.  Odd.)
  • When my Soverign died and the game ended, my game shut down after about ten seconds or so of the GAME OVER message.  This might be an intended result, but I still mention it in case it isn't.  It seemed odd to me.

BUGS:

  • I'm getting some wonky textures near coastlines.  I've seen other threads mentioning rivers looking weird, but I'm also seeing city borders and movement icons getting crackled up near coasts as well.
  • I can't select my cities by clicking on their city centers, only by clicking on the built structures within the city limits.
  • When I started my game, I could only move my Soverign one tile before it refused to budge.  I advanced several turns, and it still wouldn't go forward the one more tile I had set it to move.  Only after I had built a city would the Soverign move again.
  • Once when I clicked the build button on a city, the view jumped to a completely different city.  It seemed to want to build within this other city with the tiles possible to build in the original city.  This only happened once.
  • The "caravans" (if that's what those wheel-looking things are meant to represent) that appear after my cities are connected via road don't move along the roads as was described in the Beta 1A release notes.  They simply sit within the city they are spawned in.
  • I can only be the Kingdom of Altar. (I think I've seen someone report this one already)

http://pastebin.com/m1bbac35f

EDIT: Oh, and now there's this: I've tried three times to open Elemental after posting that list, and it's consistently crashed during the intro movie.  Maybe I hurt its feelings.

Here's the debug file of the most recent one: http://pastebin.com/m1b1632e9

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top
  • Saving doesn't save your research. You come back from a save as if the research is gone.
  • The game crashed many times for me randomly or not.
  • Clicking on things is very difficult.
  • Sometimes you could not say "don't declare war"
  • There are times when you delete a building and the delete building mouse pointer does not disappear.
  • Roads sometimes disappeared randomly
  • If you start a game, go to the menu and start another, the screen turns white with a green haze on the left
  • Along with the comment above, yes, it crashes anytime you load the game and the intro video plays. If you hit escape soon enough, you're good, but sometimes the video's music keeps playing. I stopped that movie from loading, and it worked fine.

The game is awesome though. My sister and I both had a good experience playing it, but she was thrown off by the crashes. Either way, she was able to play longer than I was.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Please post only one issue per thread so that they can be categorized for dev review. It's much more difficult to do with compilations such as this.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Noted; sorry for the inconvenience.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

What do I do then? Repost it all? Is there a way to make this forum e-mail me whenever I have a post? It's really a pain to keep checking it once every few weeks manually.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah Saturn2888, check out this thread to figure out the format for posting bug reports.  Also, I couldn't find how to get the forum to email you with responses to your topics (that might just be me being tired, though) but it DOES keep track of your topics and posts in a handy tab in the "My Account" screen.  Also, replies seem to be pretty quick here.  Finally, !!!read the stickies!!! to see if your issues are known ones or just to get more information about how the beta forum's working in general.

 

EDIT: Forgot to link to kryo's beta roundup site: http://elemental.kryofx.com/

It's another good way to figure out if your issues have been reported with links to the report posts.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Thank you so much. Yeah, no notification means I'll forget and not check for replies. This is why it was a good 6 months before I last checked this forum.