AlienGPT "Generate" button disabled, just like the mods button

Hello, I just bought the game and can't access to the "Generate" button in Alien GPT with "user not authenticated" message. Also the round mods manager button is not accessable.

Update : when I tried to launch the game under another Windows user in the same desktop it seems work fine. The reason, probably, is in the Windows user name with no latin characters in it. Is it possible to fix this?

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Reply #1 Top

Hmm.  I do not believe it's related to your Windows username.  Authentication should be determined by your logon to either Steam or Epic (not sure which platform you are using).

Make sure you are successfully logged into one of the above platforms.

Another potential problem could be with some cached data.  Try deleting the Tachyon*.dat files in the folder at C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Tachyon and restart the game.

Reply #2 Top

I swear, when I run the game under latin name user Alien GPT functions and Mods button works fine, but when I run the game in the same desktop with the same Steam but under cyrillic name user, those functions became unaviable. I use Windows 10 and local (not Microsoft ID) PC users.

I remember similar problems with Forza Horizon 4 in Steam at launch.

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Reply #3 Top

For anyone that is having issues with not being able to use AlienGPT because of an authentication issue, we would like to gather some more information and collect some log files that may help us.


C:\Users\{YOURUSERNAME}\AppData\Local\Stardock\Tachyon\TachyonLog.txt
C:\Users\{YOURUSERNAME}\Documents\My Games\GalCiv4\debug.err

If you could collect the above log files and submit a support ticket using the following link, and include those files that could be helpful.

https://stardock.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/4/group/14/create/10139


Thank you

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Quoting SO8881, reply 2

I swear, when I run the game under latin name user Alien GPT functions and Mods button works fine, but when I run the game in the same desktop with the same Steam but under cyrillic name user, those functions became unaviable. I use Windows 10 and local (not Microsoft ID) PC users.

I remember similar problems with Forza Horizon 4 in Steam at launch.
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I confirm this. AlienGPT and Workshop are not working if the user's folder contains cyrillic characters. If you run the game with administrator rights, then everything works, but the game also creates a user folder with buggy characters in the name with this structure: C:\Users\{BUGGYNAME}\AppData\Local\Stardock\Tachyon\

There may be some problem with the Unicode encoding in the source code of the Tachyon system when it tries to read/write data to the user's folder with non-latin characters in the name. Because "Олег" is "Олег" in UTF-8 ^_^  (Look at the screenshot)

 

Reply #5 Top

Healler3108, thank you for that insight.  That is some very helpful information. I will pass this information along to developers and I'm sure we will be able to fix that issue.

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Quoting T-Man, reply 5

Healler3108, thank you for that insight.  That is some very helpful information. I will pass this information along to developers and I'm sure we will be able to fix that issue.
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Thank you too! 😀

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It works for now after update. I thanks Stardock programmers so much!!!

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Reply #8 Top

That is good news.  Thanks for the update letting us know it is working. Enjoy!