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Unfortunately, I have not been able to use the fleet battle, meaning I can't make any judgements about it or test the ships I create or download. Of the four times I attempted to play the battle mode, my computer had to be restarted, and the remaining two times, only one prompted a crash report. Not sure if it's a problem with the game, my computer, or both.

 

As for the ship creation? It's pretty well-designed, and aside from occasional fidgety placement of parts, it isn't too difficult to use., and is quite fun. However, some form of mirror option would be nice, as would the option to copy/paste adjusted parts. Descriptions and/or animations of the various weapons would be nice, since I can only determine what they do via the battle mode, which I previously mentioned that I can't access. When trying to upload a ship to Steam, the description stays in the uppermost line and gets lost off the edge of the screen, and it's a minor inconvenience to not be able to make new paragraphs.

 

EDIT: Since I am unable to make more than two posts, apparently, I will have to instead edit this post further.

 

The reason for Fleet Battle crashing my game, I've discovered, is putting my Neobliterator ship into a fleet-- mine or the enemy's. The mode works mostly fine with just official ships, though I have run into the same problem others have had where the ships become invisible. All of them, not just the ones currently in play. My other ship, the Twilight Shipkle, works in battle mode, but caused a glitch where all sound was muted, and attempting to surrender and quit caused the previously mentioned black screen/zoomed in problem.

 

The reason the Neobliterator doesn't work is, I reason, because of an error involving one of its parts. However, deleting parts in the editing mode isn't that convenient, since I have to delete all the connected parts and all their connected parts and so on just to get to one of them. It would be convenient to be able to delete parts without having to delete others, or at least deleting all the connected parts automatically by deleting their base.

 

Can't wait for the future, and all the wonderful goodies it'll bring!

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Reply #1 from StarControl Forums Top

Could you please post your system's specs?

Reply #2 from StarControl Forums Top

Win 10 64 bit operating system.

3.40 GHz processor.

8 GB of RAM.

Is that informative?

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Reply #3 from StarControl Forums Top

How many cores does your processor have? Also what is the model of your graphics card?

Reply #4 from StarControl Forums Top

Four cores.

Model is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

 

EDIT: Yes, I have the most recent drivers.

Max temperature is 100C. Before running the game, the temperatures in the cores average about 36C. While in the title screen, the average is 48C.  While in Fleet Battle, the average was around 61C. Surprisingly, I experienced no crashes, although the browser was blacking out a lot until I exited the game and restarted the browser.

 

The two times I had to restart the computer, it was because the screen went completely black, and after using both the windows key and ctrl-alt-del, I was able to exit that screen, but the whole desktop was zoomed in.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well you meet the system requirements. Are your drivers up to date?

For the restarting the only thing that comes to mind is that your PC is overheating. Could you check the temperature before and when trying to run the game? There are several programs online that can help with that.

Reply #6 from StarControl Forums Top

Kind of running out of ideas. I have a weaker system than yours and mine never restarted. Might be best to wait for a dev to chime in.

Also you should consider joining the Origins' Discord server.

Reply #7 from StarControl Forums Top

My 4-year-old computer occasionally crashes during the first match.  Sometimes the one or both ships are invisible at first (still, but now rarely when before it was always).  Also, during the first match (first fight of the first game after turning it on) it can sometimes just stop for 30-60 seconds before getting over whatever it is (I assume still loading things in the background). 

These things only ever happen during the first fight of the first game after having turned it on, then everything is perfect.  I was having a lot more problems like this in early versions, it is a lot better now (minor now) then it had been.