GalCiv beta 5B!

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Lots and lots of polish done here.

Windows 98 issues should be cleared up.
Faster performance.
Some new AI stuff -- for fun, take a transport and park it in a sector full of Drengin stars and watch the fun.
Crash bugs reported are fixed (including the Ctrl-N one).
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
for whose fun?

I imagine you are setting back imagining all the hardaches us players will have when we do this thing you say for "fun" LOL
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Great. Will download ASAP. Brad: You guys are really crankin' those builds out these days, aren't you :D

Will this be the last pre-gamma build?

Asmodean
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Probably. Depends on what you guys say.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Sweet. I'll have to dl it when I get home and check it out...

I must say, just in the time I've been a BT I've seen this game progress quite nicely. Well done :).
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Brad,
You fixed the Win98 performance issue at startup. The doors open smoothly now.
There is still a problem with the event movies. The 1st colony movie is better. I can see the video now, but the sound is still breaking up. Also the sound when I "speak to" the AIs is breaking up as well.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Brad,

Tks for the update :d

Here some quick notes & feedback :

Cosmetic
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After startup when selecting load civilization and pressing cancel leaves part of the dialog box on the screen.

Game Play
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During gameplay, select a ship with moves left, click somewhere on the screen to check where to send it to.
In order to go back to the ship i use the find button but this does not work, it only works after selection another ship.

Noticed several crashes to desktop during play when clicking on ships, no error message just boom and desktop appears.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
hlesser, what's your hardware/software config?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Fixed the cosmetic thing last night after the build went up.

When the thing with the find button happened, did you have any other ships with moves left that were not on autopilot or in orbit?

If you want to re-center on your ship, hit the C key or click on the logo on the ship data window.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Also, I was able to improve performance on the mini cutscenes after the build went up last night. It's still not great on Windows ME, but the sound wasn't skipping or anything like it had been before.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Cut scenes and sound still the same on my XP machine. Certainly tolerable but far from smooth. The mouse also becomes sluggish when they are played. I still get that awful static popping as well.

I have noticed that after a UP vote to make anomalies territirially owned that one of my research vessels set on autosurvey started to get a message comming up repeatedly 'only survey vessels can explore anomalies - I remember seeing this before in a much earlier beta but not recently. I had selected the option switching of anomaly pop-up's




Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
Brad,
It's Win98SE, AMD K7 600MHz, DirectX8.1.

I played the movies using the Bink Player and they're great!! I just want to see them in all of their glory from within the game. ;)
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
I've sent a Transport into a Drengin sector that has several stars, 2 have Drengin colonies, and parked it between the 2 populated stars. I've waited and waited and waited and waited...and nothings happened (:(
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
Steevodeevo: what are your system specs, including sound and video cards?
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari

Via kt 133 mobo
GForce4Ti 4200 graphics card
523mb PC 133 memory
Audigy soundcard