build freeze

[MightyMalcolm]

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 12:18 pm

Last edited by MightyMalcolm on January 3rd, 2011, 12:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

hey guys

my apologies in advance if this topic has already been discussed elsewhere. at least i couldn't find it.

i've just installed your mod in version 3.1.5 exactly the way my brother did on his computer. we both use win 7 (64 bit) and for him it worked just fine. however, with every race, there is a building (e.g. the romulan's singularity transmitter) i cannot construct without getting a nasty freeze. the game still runs, i can hear ships battling and even the main menu pops up normally, but neither the curser nor the ships on my screen would move anymore.

too bad, since i rly rly rly [...] rly liked this mod! epic work!

if anyone can help, please advice =)


P.S.: i tried re-installing the mod 4 times and armada 3 times by now. don't want to re-install windows, though^^ also tried various compatibility-modes - nothing

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 10:38 pm

hey, that is a bug we haven't figured out entirely yet. i have had this problem on my computer too, it later was gone for no reason. an (annoying) way to get out of the freeze is to first right click (to abort the building placement) and then press escape to get into the game menu, then switch back to the game.

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 11:07 pm

yeah my before-mentioned brother and i had a quick multiplayer match with the bug occurring again. i simply tabbed in and out and that did the trick, too^^

keep up finding it! *cross fingers*

posted on January 4th, 2011, 12:21 am

welcome to the forums mightymalcolm. will add your bug to the bugs list.

hope you enjoy your time here and that your bug is resolved.

posted on February 5th, 2011, 1:55 am

I have had this bug also (altho it seems to have disappered since 3.1.5) but I was able to just alt-tab out of the game and go back in and it worked like normal.

posted on February 17th, 2011, 10:42 pm

I am having a  intermitiant build freeze  at the  Assumulator Matrix . I was  Borg Assumulate avitar, with  the following  settings: Resourses double,  no  cease fire , shroud and fog off ,  non players off. I was playing  against the following opponents: Dominion, Klingon,Romulan, and Fereration, AI  hard. Maps that was playing on were the Eraudi and  Nirvinana 2 maps.On both maps listed Occouring  at least one  times on each map.  3/4 the way through the game  as I was building Resourse assimulators the Asimmulation Matrix  locked up .I was un- able to get out the build menue. I could not cancel the build Que nor could I  halt it . at the time  I had at  least one miner at  atleast  1 of every opponents moon pairs. I checked there was no  Bug report generated. Average occourance is once in a bout 100 games.The only way I was able to get out  was I had to Decomission the  Assimulation Matrix and rebuild it in another location. I havent had the Problem in the last Two  weeks , but I figured I woulde report it any way.

posted on February 20th, 2011, 3:38 pm

Don't know if this will help everyone, but I was having the same issues until I updated my video card drivers through Steam.  I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 5670 - since the driver update, this problem has completely gone away and the game runs solidly on all graphics detail settings.

posted on February 20th, 2011, 3:54 pm

thanks for your reports