Seemingly Hung MP Replay
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:56 am
I had a MP game that I thought was hung in the middle of a replay. I reported it as a bug. The same thing happened in another game a couple of days ago, but it resumed after two minutes or so. The unit animation speeds up and just flickers with no movement. You have cursor control, but it is very sluggish.
When it happened with the second MP game I went back to the first and brought it to the point where it hung before. I left the room and returned 10 minutes later to find that the replay was finished and that I could continue the game.
It turns out that it may be a real time recording of the play, so that if you leave your computer for a few minutes then that is recorded and shows up as agitated animation (but stationary movement) in the replay.
RBS replied that some people start a MP session and then leave the computer for hours. He said that "You can save the partial completed turn to the server and then come back to it later". That should prevent the agitated animation with no movement.
When it happened with the second MP game I went back to the first and brought it to the point where it hung before. I left the room and returned 10 minutes later to find that the replay was finished and that I could continue the game.
It turns out that it may be a real time recording of the play, so that if you leave your computer for a few minutes then that is recorded and shows up as agitated animation (but stationary movement) in the replay.
RBS replied that some people start a MP session and then leave the computer for hours. He said that "You can save the partial completed turn to the server and then come back to it later". That should prevent the agitated animation with no movement.