Official v4.7 Bugs Thread

[Steve Walmsley]

I've no idea how that could happen, since i didn't moved it, but you've just saved my day for the second time in a week!  
It worked like a charm.

When you close Aurora, it saves the position of all the windows. If one is minimised then it gets saved in that position and you can't see it. The Reset Window Positions option deletes all the saved window positions so all the windows will revert to a 0,0 position.

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

I've no idea how that could happen, since i didn't moved it, but you've just saved my day for the second time in a week!  
It worked like a charm.

When you close Aurora, it saves the position of all the windows. If one is minimised then it gets saved in that position and you can't see it. The Reset Window Positions option deletes all the saved window positions so all the windows will revert to a 0,0 position.

I have changed the code for v4.8 so that the position of minimised windows isn't saved. This issue has been around so long that I am amazed this solution never occured to me before.

Steve

[yoshyusmc]

It's always me, but this time i stumbled upon something big...or at least looks like that...

It's quite difficult to describe in english for me...i'll do my best.

Well, i was having GREAT fun, when on a given day (1st November 2035) the game simply stopped showing me the Population and Production screen.

When i click on Economics, or press F2, or select the icons Colony Summary, Industrial Production and Research the game says Loading Economics for a few seconds, as always, but then nothing happens. If i Alt-Tab, i can see a window opened called "Population and Production", but when I select it i see only the desktop. No error message, nothing at all, i simply don't see the screen. Everything else works perfectly...leaders, ship design, Task groups...i can continue the game, but obviously i can't do much without that screen.

Even though it looks like a windows problem, i can replicate it on 3 different machines, one with XP, one with Vista and one with win7. The problem only occurs when i open my current campaign...if i start a new one the pop&prod screen comes back normally.

Since i obviously forgot to backup the DataBase (I'm not even sure that the DB it's the problem, though) i'm pretty much desperate; i was LOVING the game.  

Please, if Steve or anyone else could help me rescue my game i'll do all in my powers to grant him sanctity. Just give me a word and i'm sending you the .db

P.S. I'm attaching what i see on win7 if i hoover the mouse over the icon it pops up in the application bar. A white screen...

This is the exact problem I have had.

[balena]

I think I've a localization problem.

I'm Italian.

As another Italian user (TrueKnihght) I can't star the game.

Trueknight kindly told mo in a private message How He solved problem.

As TrueKnight, Now I've international setting as "English". see attachment posted here:
viewtopic.php?f=95&t=1861#p17961

Error occurred again:

Error 3061 was generated by DAO.DATABASE
insufficient parameter. Espect 2 <<this line comes in italian language>>

If I click on "ok" the game loops with:

ERROR 3265 was generated by DAO.DATABASE
Element not found in this group.<<this line comes in italian language>>

Errors' descriptions come in Italian language So I think is a little database (Access) problem..

THanks.

[Steve Walmsley]

This is the exact problem I have had.

Close the window that you can't see by right-clickng on it in the windows task bar at the bottom of the screen (or just close and restart Aurora). Then select Reset Window Positions from the Miscellaneous menu. Try opening the affected window again.

Steve

[Steve Walmsley]

I think I've a localization problem.

I'm Italian.

As another Italian user (TrueKnihght) I can't star the game.

Trueknight kindly told mo in a private message How He solved problem.

As TrueKnight, Now I've international setting as "English". see attachment posted here:
viewtopic.php?f=95&t=1861#p17961

Error occurred again:

Error 3061 was generated by DAO.DATABASE
insufficient parameter. Espect 2 <<this line comes in italian language>>

If I click on "ok" the game loops with:

ERROR 3265 was generated by DAO.DATABASE
Element not found in this group.<<this line comes in italian language>>

Errors' descriptions come in Italian language So I think is a little database (Access) problem..

THanks.

Those two errors usually mean the database doesn't match the program, which usually means an installation problem, or as Trueknight pointed out it might be a regional settings problem. Where in the program did the error occur?

Make sure your decimal separator in Regional Settings is . rather than ,

Steve

[Trueknight]

I've started getting an error 3420 generated by DAO.Recordset.  Object Invalid or no longer set.
It's coming from NPRPopPlanning.


It's not stopping the game, it's just irksome at the moment.

I'm having his same problem. After 10 years of gameplay i've started to get this error every 5 days turn...for now it's only annoying but, since it's related to NPR, i fear that could end up with a screwed up NPR somewhere in the galaxy. Do i have to send the DB?

I'm sorry to be annoying but i didn't get any answer and i fear that the post came unnoticed. I'm still having these error messages, on any given 5-days-update, for the last 2 years in-game, now...

Any idea if this could be solved somehow?

Thanks, sorry for bumping

[Steve Walmsley]

I've started getting an error 3420 generated by DAO.Recordset.  Object Invalid or no longer set.
It's coming from NPRPopPlanning.


It's not stopping the game, it's just irksome at the moment.

I'm having his same problem. After 10 years of gameplay i've started to get this error every 5 days turn...for now it's only annoying but, since it's related to NPR, i fear that could end up with a screwed up NPR somewhere in the galaxy. Do i have to send the DB?

I'm sorry to be annoying but i didn't get any answer and i fear that the post came unnoticed. I'm still having these error messages, on any given 5-days-update, for the last 2 years in-game, now...

Any idea if this could be solved somehow?

Thanks, sorry for bumping

No problem. Do you want to email me the latest version of your database (which is Stevefire.mdb) and I will try to fix it. My email address is stevewalmsley at btinternet.com

Steve

[Trueknight]

email sent...thanks

[Elmo]

Started a new game and wanted to research Jump Point Theory.  Assigned some labs and when I tried to assign a scientist with a Power and Propulsion bonus it threw a 30009 error.  Invalid Row Value.



Edit - If I close out the F2 window and reopen it then I can then create the research project but I have to coax the game to accept my choice of scientist by clicking on another non Power and Propulsion scientist choice first.

[Steve Walmsley]

Started a new game and wanted to research Jump Point Theory.  Assigned some labs and when I tried to assign a scientist with a Power and Propulsion bonus it threw a 30009 error.  Invalid Row Value

Edit - If I close out the F2 window and reopen it then I can then create the research project but I have to coax the game to accept my choice of scientist by clicking on another non Power and Propulsion scientist choice first.

This is a known bug that is fixed in v4.8. You already found the workaround if it happens . You probably don't even need to close the window, just select something else and then try again.

Steve

[Elmo]

OK, thanks Steve.  Sorry for posting a bug already reported and fixed but going through all those previous bug reports just seemed like too much work.

[Steve Walmsley]

OK, thanks Steve.  Sorry for posting a bug already reported and fixed but going through all those previous bug reports just seemed like too much work.

No problem. Its better to post just in case there is a subtle difference or the bug is appearing somewhere other than in the past.

Steve

[balena]

Those two errors usually mean the database doesn't match the program, which usually means an installation problem, or as Trueknight pointed out it might be a regional settings problem. Where in the program did the error occur?

Make sure your decimal separator in Regional Settings is . rather than ,

Steve

the error occurs booting the game.
I never seen the game starting properly.

As TrueKnight, Now I've international setting as "English". see attachment posted here:
viewtopic.php?f=95&t=1861#p17961

numbers' format seems to be ok!!

[sloanjh]

There seems to be a problem with the "recent stockpile +/-" column of the minerals tab of the F2 screen not properly taking incoming mass driver packets properly.  I think this is similar to the timing issue that you fixed in the wealth change a few months back - i.e. that the times were set up so that income received during the turn is ignored.

My mercassium has been showing "-1" for a while, even though I've got civie mining complexs throwing a lot at my homeworld, my homeworld is barely using any, and the total seems to be going up  I finally sat down and tracked it day-by-day during a 5-day.  Here are the total and delta columns:

start:1867/-1
day 3:1872/+4 (caught +5 packet)
day 4: 1877/+9 (caught +5 packet)
day 5: 1876/-1 (consumed 1 from shipbuilding)

So it looks like the delta column is being calculated from just before the update being performed, rather than from just after the previous update.  Whatever timestamps you're using to fix the wealth delta calculation should fix this one too.

John