Hello 

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered. I had a search and couldn't find a similar issue. Just wondering if anyone has some advice for me - I've recently got the game on Steam and am excited to play. I'm playing on windows 10, and have more than the minimum specs for the game. 

Unfortunatly, the game is not really working for me - I can load up and play fleet battles fine, but in single player when I get to the moon or the training outpost to talk with a person the game lags like nothing else making play impossible. It usually then crashes. 

I've tried: uninstalling and reinstalling, clean boot, opening the game as administrator, reducing all graphics options to minimum, removing second monitor etc.

The game also take ages to load, but I can live with that...  

Apologies if I missed it - but has anyone spotted this issue or had ideas for a fix? Very keen to play the game! I remeber the excitement of booting up StarCon 2 for the first time (and tracking down the damned stars on the star map!). 

Any ideas? 

Thanks very much 

The output of my RunLog is as follows: 

 --- Settings --- 

Game Window: 1920 x 1080

Scale UI to 1080: 1

Borderless: 0

Fullscreen: 1

MSAA Samples: 2

Detail: 1

Shadow Detail: 2

vSync: 1

Framerate Limit: 144

BG Framerate Limit: 30

Async Compute: 0

Master Sound Volume: 0

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Aftermath failed to initialize!

Something weird happened that caused the library to fail for some reason

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Error: NPC Line "EP4_GlooshCartographer_58" does not have a valid translation

Scene Mode: Entering MOVIE

Game Loop Mode: Entering LOADING

Scene Mode: Entering MOVIE

Scene Mode: Exiting MOVIE

Scene Mode: Entering MAIN_MENU

Game Loop Mode: Entering MENUS

Nitrous Error: Could not find ship design: Norast_Warship_Playable

Scene Mode: Exiting MAIN_MENU

Preparing to enter dialog scene HumanCommanderDialogScene

Scene Mode: Entering LOADING_POPUP

Game Loop Mode: Entering LOADING

Assert Fail: fileBuffer.m_uiSize < fileBuffer.m_uiCapacity File D:\StarControl_BM\Main\Libs\MVC\Common\MVC_Library.cpp Line 2925

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Scene Mode: Exiting LOADING_POPUP

Scene Mode: Entering MOVIE

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Scene Mode: Entering BRIEFING

Game Loop Mode: Entering MENUS

Scene Mode: Exiting BRIEFING

Scene Mode: Entering MOVIE

Game Loop Mode: Entering LOADING

Scene Mode: Exiting MOVIE

Preparing to enter dialog scene HumanCommanderDialogScene

Scene Mode: Entering DIALOG

Game Loop Mode: Entering DIALOG

Scene Mode: Exiting DIALOG

Scene Mode: Entering SPACE

Game Loop Mode: Entering SPACE

Assert Fail: len > 0.f File D:\StarControl_BM\Main\Libs\Core\Common\Core_VectorTypes.h Line 314