Official v5.20 Bugs Thread

[DatAlien]

looks like you dont have unzipped the picturre folders

[Beersatron]

Receiving the Error in cboControlRace
                  Error 76 was generated by Aurora
                  Path not found: 'Planetjpeg\ha3.jpg'
                 
When I try to access F9.

Any clues (hoping it's my operator headspace error).

Checked your install folder for a folder called 'planetjpeg'?

[Xeno The Morph]

I just thought I would add the civilian ship 'using incorrect Jump order' bug (noted in hxxp: aurora2.  pentarch.  org/index.  php/topic,2953.  0.  html) here on the bug thread, as no search has found it in the thread.

If you clear a civilian ships orders and their new route takes them through a JG they will fail the transit. . .  and keep doing so every few hours  

Message: 'xxx cannot carry out its squadron transit order as at least one ship is larger than the ship with the highest jump rating. '

It is extremely annoying as there is no way around it and it has effectively stopped my 25ish year campaign and there is no way to counter it, without DB access or destroying the civilian ships with my own attack ships (and my ships are not nearby. . .  well to some of the differently located & affected ships at least. . .  hello insanely excessive turn clicking )

Edit: hmm, the link is mangled even if I use the hyperlink tags. . .  sorry it looks like you will need to unmangle it

[welchbloke]

I just thought I would add the civilian ship 'using incorrect Jump order' bug (noted in hxxp: aurora2.  pentarch.  org/index.  php/topic,2953.  0.  html) here on the bug thread, as no search has found it in the thread.

If you clear a civilian ships orders and their new route takes them through a JG they will fail the transit. . .  and keep doing so every few hours  

Message: 'xxx cannot carry out its squadron transit order as at least one ship is larger than the ship with the highest jump rating. '

It is extremely annoying as there is no way around it and it has effectively stopped my 25ish year campaign and there is no way to counter it, without DB access or destroying the civilian ships with my own attack ships (and my ships are not nearby. . .  well to some of the differently located & affected ships at least. . .  hello insanely excessive turn clicking )

Edit: hmm, the link is mangled even if I use the hyperlink tags. . .  sorry it looks like you will need to unmangle it

There is a third way - but  you need the designer mode password.  If you e-mail Steve and ask him, assuming he's agreeable you can use designer mode access to delete the ships or give them new orders.

[DatAlien]

Since I added an new NPC I get every turn a few error messages that commander names cant be found (they use Alien Race 1#)  and after I invade them I can see that parts of there names are missing (first or last names)

(Error in GetCommanderName and Error in GetCommanderFullName)

[WHCnelson]

  Hello,
       I am getting a Error message when I bring up the Systems Map for a single system; Mainly my Home system.
This has occurred numerous times.   When it usually happens I go back to a previous save and then I am good for
a bit and then it occurs again.  I can not post the screen print; So here is what it says.

ERROR IN DISPLAYSYSTEMBODIES

Error 6 was generated by Aurora Overflow
Please report to http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewforum.php?f=11

When I click on OK it the displays the system.   Does anyone have an Idea what maybe wrong?

[Starkiller]

Heh. That error 6 overflow seems relatively common. I get it occasionally when
a turn is running. I click 'ok' and everything is fine. I don't know what generates
the error, but it seems to have no other effect on the gameplay.

Eric

[Libelnon]

I'd say that 'overflow' suggests that the game is trying to cram too much data into the database, or into one particular field.  It could be caused by a planet with an orbit of over 65526, for example (I think it's that much anyway).  I get overflow errors occasionally when programming in delphi when a variable entered is larger than the maximum for the variable type.

[Xeno The Morph]

It seems there is some sort of bug regarding the 'armour' of invader torpedoes vs incoming fire. 
I can only give 2 contrasting examples due to my limited experience with them though

Correct action:
Using turreted Gauss cannons in 'final defence' PD mode (& CIWS) - as these only do 1 damage and the torpedoes are generally still at size 4 to 5 the majority of hits fail to detonate their warheads

Buggy action:
Using the same turreted Gauss cannons but manually targeting the incoming salvoes (as due to happen-stance the last stop for the torpedoes before hitting is ~20k, doesn't seem to work for Area defence though.  .  .   they never try to fire unless at least one FC on the PD ship is manually targeted.  .  .  ) - even though these only do 1 damage every successful hit detonates the targeted torpedo!

EDIT: OK I got the Area defence to work (must have been doing something wrong) and it seems to correctly act like the final defence PD i. e.  with failed detonations

[Aldaris]

I have bit of a problem.
Recently, I switched to 64b W7, and after some tinkering got Aurora to work again.
Except for the F9 screen. When I try to open that, it tells me I need MSSTDFMT.DLL, which I then downloaded, unpacked, and moved into system, then into system32 and the Aurora directory. I even changed the name so it's allcaps just case that made a difference. I still cannot open the F9 screen.
Halp.

[Erik L]

I have bit of a problem.
Recently, I switched to 64b W7, and after some tinkering got Aurora to work again.
Except for the F9 screen. When I try to open that, it tells me I need MSSTDFMT.DLL, which I then downloaded, unpacked, and moved into system, then into system32 and the Aurora directory. I even changed the name so it's allcaps just case that made a difference. I still cannot open the F9 screen.
Halp.

Did you register the DLL? You'll need to run the command "regsvr32 msstdfmt.dll"

[Hawkeye]

This might have been reported earlier.
When you scrap one of your own ships, its captain is still listed as being assigned to the now nonexisting ship.
I scraped all ships of two classes, so I could look through all of my officers (which was a bit of a hassle) and manually unasign them. Now that I know about this, I can unasign them before scraping, still, it would be nice if the officers would return to the pool automaticaly.

[welchbloke]

This might have been reported earlier.
When you scrap one of your own ships, its captain is still listed as being assigned to the now nonexisting ship.
I scraped all ships of two classes, so I could look through all of my officers (which was a bit of a hassle) and manually unasign them. Now that I know about this, I can unasign them before scraping, still, it would be nice if the officers would return to the pool automaticaly.

I was about to post the same bug.  Also, whilst a ship is being scrapped it is still a valid command assignment; so you end up unassinging and then after the next 5 days increment, an officer is assigned to the ship if it is still being scrapped  It is somewhat annoying.

Edit to add:
This also happens when a Replacement btn is used up; I've just found a GF commander with the same bug.

[sloanjh]

I was about to post the same bug.  Also, whilst a ship is being scrapped it is still a valid command assignment; so you end up unassinging and then after the next 5 days increment, an officer is assigned to the ship if it is still being scrapped  It is somewhat annoying.

Edit to add:
This also happens when a Replacement btn is used up; I've just found a GF commander with the same bug.

And there's still something funky going on with auto-assign.  I've repeatedly had the case where an officer thinks he's assigned to a ship, but the ship doesn't know he's assigned (and I'm pretty sure that he's not a passenger - he doesn't show up as "unassigned" in the skills filter unless I explicitly unassign him).

John

[welchbloke]

And there's still something funky going on with auto-assign.  I've repeatedly had the case where an officer thinks he's assigned to a ship, but the ship doesn't know he's assigned (and I'm pretty sure that he's not a passenger - he doesn't show up as "unassigned" in the skills filter unless I explicitly unassign him).

John

That reminds me I've found ships with 2 commanders assigned recently.  Unassign one and there is another assigned as well.  I discovered this when manually destroying fighters so that I could replace them with newer versions.