The game crashes when I minimize it with alt+tab. I expected this though, as it is a beta.

3ghz
1.5gigs
ati x1300 PCI

The work around for this is to disable the opening movies. Goto C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting and open the file user.setting with notepad.  Look for the word "ShowIntroMovies" and turn the following "TRUE" into a "FALSE". Save the file and reload Sins.

First post here, Hi.

I've only tried the beta for a moment but the following things caught my attention.

The middle text in the galaxy creation screen has the tendcy to be to large for the frame and run over into the next piece of text.

Zooming in or out seems to take an inordinate amount of processing power. Other than that the game runs fine in 2560*1600.

Windows vista
X24400+
GF8800GXT 768 mb vidcard
DirectX 10

I cant seem to install it I keep getting the same error.

-- [Application] ----------------------------------------------------
Name: Stardock Central
Path: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral
Version: 2.42.449, build: 146

-- [System Information] ---------------------------------------------
Platform: Microsoft Windows Windows XP, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
System Dir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Time / Date: 18:08:11 -- Tuesday, March 27, 2007

-- [Installing] -----------------------------------------------------
Server: http://sdc1.stardock.com
Server Dir: public
Network Id: drengin
Name: Sins of a Solar Empire
App Id: sin
Installed: False
Version: 0.60[b].003
Type: beta
Reg Key: sins
Install Dir: C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\Sins of a Solar Empire
Exe: Sins of a Solar Empire.exe
Last Updated: 03/27/2007

-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 1 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 2 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 3 | Extraction error 1
Result: Installation failed (33)

I can never get past 37% extraction before it starts again, and then after several tries informs me that is failed.

Having the stat panel (in the lower right right corner) causes a lot of lag/takes a lot of resources during the game. very apearent when zooming.

Also, like most things using directX, Sins doesn't like Folding@home, or similar GPU using programs. It will start minimized, and crash to desktop when maximized. Not really an issue, but I thought i'd point it out.

I have the same problem as well, i think it's 15% for me though.
C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 1 | -30 Connection timed out
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 1 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 2 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 3 | Extraction error 1
Result: Installation failed (33)


-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\sin\beta\sin.xml 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 1 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 2 | Extraction error 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 1
Extract C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\sin.sdc 0 | Attempt: 3 | Extraction error 1
Result: Installation failed (33)

AMD proccessor
Platform: Microsoft Windows Windows XP, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Display: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE (Microsoft Corporation)
Driver Version: 5.6.7.3
System Dir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Time / Date: 17:10:23 -- Tuesday, March 27, 2007

X1900GT graphics
Windows Xp
2gigs Ram

Not sure where to post this so ill do it here. When trying to zoom in on a planet near the text at the top notifying the player of events, even if mouse isnt on the text it scrolls the text instead of zooming.

So the area around that text i think should be decreased so that it only scrolls the text when the mouse is directly over it.

Game is great so far, sorry if im not supposed to have fun but i am

Hi,

When playing in a small game, about 3 hours into a game against one easy AI, I sent in 3 different capital ships(carrier, dreadnought and cruiser) and 2 kodiak frigates into one of his asteroid systems where he had about 3 scout frigates and 4 siege frigates, suddenly the game froze or rather, stuttered between 2 frames repeatedly, with sound, with the game still on screen except I had my taskbar on the bottom and minidump showed up in the taskbar. Unfortunately I could not get a dump of my crash, but up until that point the game ran beautifully, and I was even able to alt tab out of it

p.s. I will try to reproduce it, but alas my save game is about an hour behind

Win XP sp2
Intel core 2 duo e6600 (2.4 ghz)
2 gb of ram
Sapphire radeon 1950GT
full graphics settings except for 2 samples instead of 4

I've noticed the same issue. I bumped into the same problem with the intro movies, and the resolution change breaks it as well. Basically, as the resolution changes when you hit 'apply', you get the bugged out windowed mode.


Windows XP64, SP2.
AMD 64X2 4400
2GB RAM
Nvidia 7800gtx


--LordPixie

Delete your uimappings.setting file and reload. Something corrupted the file.

i'm telling you, it's one of those chinese cybernet spy's again. they are trying to steal the secret TEC stealth technology. this could breach our universal stellar lan security threat sensors and bring it under the chinese control.

For me the game music still plays when I alt-tab out of it while I'm at the main menu. Seems like if you hit alt-tab and quickly release it the music cuts off. But if you hold alt, press tab, and continue holding alt, it will minimize but the game keeps running (and playing its sounds).

XP SP2
2gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB