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Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:40 am
by mannerheim4
I am having a problem with battles.
If I want to resolve the battle "manually", the game takes me to the combat screen with the game fully "zoomed in". I cannot zoom out with any keyboard command or the scroll wheel on the mouse. At this scale, you can do nothing regarding giving orders to your ships. You can select them, but you cannot move them. They can change direction, but will not move if you right click. If you give the order to let them do their own thing, they will, but individually and get slaughtered. I cannot command my ships.
What makes this weird is that it doesn't always happen. Some games, it does every time. Other plays, it doesn't happen. I am not changing the settings, so I have no idea why this is happening.
Auto Resolve works, no problem, but this is just too frustrating to play. Going back over and over from saves does the same thing.
Any help?
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:34 am
by zakblood
let's take a look at your settings to see if it's a hardware or software issue,
How to get a DxDiag report file:
1. Click on "START" (on Windows 8 press “Windows key” and the “R” key at the same time)
2. Click "run" (skip this step on Windows 8 )
3. Type in "dxdiag" and click "OK"
4. Check through the tabs and perform all tests
5. Click "Save all Information..." and save the text file to a location of your choice
We prefer that DxDiag files be posted as message attachments (zip) rather than pasted into the body of the post.
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 12:42 am
by pompacl
This is the same problem I addres in the "odd lockup" thread.
I had the problem occasionally, then it stopped, now it occurs on every battle
It is indeed extremely frustrating
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:36 am
by zakblood
no saves?
no report?
not a lot to go on tbh other than guess i'm sorry to say
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:15 pm
by pompacl
zakblood_slith wrote:no saves?
no report?
not a lot to go on tbh other than guess i'm sorry to say
Yep because I am still waiting for help on the problem of the zipped saves "too large" in the other thread. I have the zipped saves but I can't upload them through the forum due to the size of the files
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:20 pm
by zakblood
Better upload them to some file sharing resource, like dropmefiles.com etc
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:49 pm
by pompacl
zakblood_slith wrote:Better upload them to some file sharing resource, like dropmefiles.com etc
I have dropbox, you have dropbox?
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:01 am
by zakblood
yes a drop box share link is fine
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:35 pm
by pompacl
zakblood_slith wrote:yes a drop box share link is fine
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8nc0latcteqj ... 5vwFa?dl=0
Now if I did this right, this save is with a combat already committed. Just let it run and fight the battle. For me, the battle comes up with no ability to zoom and the ships will accept orders but not move
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:41 pm
by zakblood
ok thanks, the developer will need to take a look and see what's happening
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:45 pm
by Ufnv
pompacl wrote:zakblood_slith wrote:yes a drop box share link is fine
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8nc0latcteqj ... 5vwFa?dl=0
Now if I did this right, this save is with a combat already committed. Just let it run and fight the battle. For me, the battle comes up with no ability to zoom and the ships will accept orders but not move
For me it works fine
What happens when you scroll the mouse wheel or press '-' or '+' buttons?
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:36 pm
by Ufnv
The same problem is reported by a guy that used Steam overlay. Looks like the game thinks some of the functional keys is down (like shift, ctrl or alt).
The solution is to press once the Shift key.
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:05 am
by mannerheim4
Ufnv wrote:The same problem is reported by a guy that used Steam overlay. Looks like the game thinks some of the functional keys is down (like shift, ctrl or alt).
The solution is to press once the Shift key.
Hmm,
I'll try that and report back. I found that restarting windows 7 SOMETIMES works, but not today. I'll give the shift key a try.
thanks
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:01 am
by pompacl
Ufnv wrote:pompacl wrote:zakblood_slith wrote:yes a drop box share link is fine
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8nc0latcteqj ... 5vwFa?dl=0
Now if I did this right, this save is with a combat already committed. Just let it run and fight the battle. For me, the battle comes up with no ability to zoom and the ships will accept orders but not move
For me it works fine
What happens when you scroll the mouse wheel or press '-' or '+' buttons?
The mouse wheel changes the time scale. The - and + keys the same.
Re: Problem with battles makes game unplayable
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:13 am
by pompacl
Ufnv wrote:The same problem is reported by a guy that used Steam overlay. Looks like the game thinks some of the functional keys is down (like shift, ctrl or alt).
The solution is to press once the Shift key.
BINGO!
Pressing the Shift key ONCE works!!!!