Game freezes

Ending turn

The last two games I have played the game freezes up suddenly. Or more correctly... I won't finish the AI turn. I can do everything, but when I'm done moving and building and what not it won't be my turn. 

This was an issue in GCIII and it's only on 0.55 on GCIV I have had this problem.

Anyone else having problems with this or have a solution?

Jonny B

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I experienced this weeks ago and many others have reported it since. I provided a saved game to the developers, and according to a response I got on the Discord server, Cari reproduced my problem and fixed the bug. But her fix won't be available until the October release.  Whether the problem you and others are reporting, although it seems to have the same symptoms, is exactly the same as the one Cari fixed, I don't know.

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Thanks for forwarding this to us. If you have a save game please upload to a file sharer of your choice and link it here as well.

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I'm afraid I don't. not at the time anyway. If I encounter this again I will save and send the save file.

Jonny B

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There seems to be more than one problem currently in 0.55 GC IV Alpha.

One problem is that an AI Race sometimes never finishes it's turn , probably it's movement subprogram for one of it's ships has a problem generating a legal order (according to GM Carrie), and so the next turn never happens.

I have found a solution to being to continue your turn, for this problem.

Hit the ESC key, this will take you to main Menu, the Load and Save buttons are greyed out and can NOT be chosen.

However, the Victory Status button is not greyed out and CAN be chosen by left clicking on it, and when I leave the Victory Status Screen, I can now do my turn normally. I have been able to keep playing my game even after having this problem several times, and then using this method to get out of it.

After a while the AI Race seems to stop having whatever problem it was having. In my case it was always the same Race that had the problem, i.e. the Mimot, However, later in the game (or in your game) it might be a different Race, having a similar problem. The problem did not start happening to me until I moved a ship into Mimot territory and meet them.

The second problem seems to be the game freezing or locking up when the Player moves their mouse cursor over the resources in the very top line on the screen and then the Game freezes. Since this problem has never happened to me, I am NOT aware IF the above method will help against this problem (I doubt that it will help). That problem is being looked at by the GMs.

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Quoting williamameling, reply 5

The second problem seems to be the game freezing or locking up when the Player moves their mouse cursor over the resources in the very top line on the screen and then the Game freezes.

If you're referring to the saved game that @mooncows posted on Discord, the mousing over resources problem is not a freeze, it's a crash to desktop. And yes, Cari is investigating.

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OK, I originally thought that it was a number of other players had had the same problem. Now I am beginning to understand that it is only one or a few players that have had that problem.