gigantic map burnout!!

from GalCiv2 Forums
Playing gigantic map game on DA, game froze yesterday and lost 5 hors of play  , have sent in debugg report, what i also noticed was that i had a PQ 15 colony with 2 xeno farms built on it (it was my eco cap) and my pop was maxed out at 6B and not growing? I just ignored it cause i had problems before with pop not growing on planets but found out there are limits to growth depending on PQ. There should have been no problems with this colony, shorlty after that my game froze.

I have completed a few games already but none at gigantic map, every time i play gigantic map bugs appear and the game becomes unplayable.

Maybe the next generation of Xbox and Playstation will have enough power to run strategy games cause too many problems with comp games. Alot of money spent on good computers to play strategy games which always seem to have problems. My problems with strategy games have always been with online play, never campaign games when playing against the comp. I also play civ4, rise of nations, medieval II total war. I recall same crashing yrs ago when i played MOO2. Too bad.
8,334 views 10 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Perhaps you should not try to play 5+ hours of play without at least saving the game now and then, so you can revert to a recent saved game.

There should always be a AutoSave.sav file that is within 10 turns or so, even at default settings. (and going back to the AutoSave.sav or PreviousAutoSave.sav, you will never lose 5 hours of game play)
I set mine at 5 turns, just so I don't have to go too far back.

If you post your debug.err contents, it might help to see where the problem is.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I sent me dubug.err to support@stardock yesterday but for some reason(dont know how?) I cannot get that file to copy and paste here. I have autosave turned off cause i was told by kryo to turn it off to help prevent crashes to desktop which occur often late in my games, they never figured that out either, was told to try 1.6 beta but still same problem with crash to desktop when autosave engaged.

Need to get a timer set to go off every hour so i remember to qucik save my games, hard to remember, i get to deep into the game everything shuts down around me lol.
Curtains - Customize Windows with additional styles
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The max population of a planet is limited by its original size. Maybe the planet had been terraformed before you got it.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Your Computer overheated man. never play for 5 hour unless you have a heat resistant lead (which you don't), make your games short and to the point.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
overheated?
it is a 2 yr old comp, but ive left comp on playing for over 10 hrs before playing other games, i have a dell xps,3.6 gig proc.,radeon X800XT vid card with 3 gig ram, there r 3 fans in this tower, nosiest comp i ever heard, maybe that all means nothing, i'll have to remeber that with next games but i have finished a few huge games with many an hour played at those also, ill have to keep track of my timen

thnx
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
that PQ15 was original size, i went back to saved game when planet was just starting out and purchased a farm and food did go up to 9mt/wk instantly.
Theres a bug somewhere, maybe tech can figure it out with debug.err i sent them.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The max population of a planet is limited by its original size. Maybe the planet had been terraformed before you got it.
Are you sure this is true? This hasn't been my experience. It is certainly dependant on the planets listed PQ which can be different than the number of buildable tiles, but I've never seen a planet behave differently then it's posted PQ. For example I colonize a PQ9 that later gets increased to PQ12 by terraforming, etc. I definitely know that as a PQ9 I did not get the 10% high PQ planet morale bonus but as a PQ12 it does.

Perhaps you should not try to play 5+ hours of play without at least saving the game now and then, so you can revert to a recent saved game.
While absolutely a true statement, it is perhaps a little harsh to not sympathize with the OP's issue. Also in his defense the most prevelant time for the game to crash is precisely when doing a save (autosave or quicksave) that first delete's then rewrites the original file. It's usually in the file deletion process that the crash occurs leaving you not only with no new save game but deleting your most recent save game as well. I usually deal with this by doing an explicit save to two save games that I keep current. If one messes up I at least can reload the other and then try again. Also I only play for the length of time that I'm willing to lose before doing another set of saves.

The autosave interval is 12 turns by default. In the mid part of a gigantic galaxy game I often have turns that take one to two hours (damn that autopilot bug). If I were to count on autosave and had to go back to the default interval previous autosave I could easily lose 18 to 24 hours of play. But certainly the suggestion of saving as frequently as the length of game play that your willing to lose is a sound suggestion.




Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The max population of a planet is limited by its original size. Maybe the planet had been terraformed before you got it.
Are you sure this is true? This hasn't been my experience. It is certainly dependant on the planets listed PQ which can be different than the number of buildable tiles, but I've never seen a planet behave differently then it's posted PQ. For example I colonize a PQ9 that later gets increased to PQ12 by terraforming, etc. I definitely know that as a PQ9 I did not get the 10% high PQ planet morale bonus but as a PQ12 it does.



Yeah, Mumble's right on this point. The present PQ determines the pop cap.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What Mumble says! All of it! Especially the saving two copies of the game every time you save.

I have had single turns take close to five hours on a gig abundant all. That's true with both DA and DL. I have actually played most of the night after work before and never hit the turn button. If I hadn't learned a few management tricks on DL, I could easily see a DA turn taking 8+ hours.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I could easily see a DA turn taking 8+ hours.

Oh God.   The trouble is that I believe that this is possible.   

Someone please go give a bump to Purge's post about the autopilot bug. I would but I've already done so once. I truly believe that this one problem that's existed as long as I've been playing the game is single-handedly responsible for my games taking me twice as long as they would otherwise have to take.