hi stratteggi,

what do you mean by command card exactly?

Tutorial Problem:

First tutorial (basic gameplay I think). It tells you to move your ships to the "end of the Phase Line" or something like that. It is pretty ambiguous. I took that to mean "to the next planet." When I got there I was attacked by pirates. After defeating them I had to jump back to the home planet to get the tutorial to advance. It then told me to go to the next planet (where I had already been) and tells me to defeat all the pirates...

Problem is that I already killed them all so the tutorial won't advance.

Hi,

While I know my laptops 1.73 GHz and 504 MB are under specs, I have only just had one crash. I have no save or reason that I noticed, but I received a mini dump error message. The message itself I dont remember, but it asked to have me send the problem to the programmers, so hopefully that helps (and its not some virus now spamming my money across Asia). In any event, the crash was the only thing able to pull me away from a 3 hour game, so if nothing else I can thank the crash for sleep. In other words, wonderful new gameplay!

Tutorial advancement problem is fixed for next patch as well

psugar, by command card I mean the buttons in the bottom right of the UI, I can click up to four of them at once.

LOL, i need my beauty sleep

I can't set rally points to other systems, I tried both a light factory and a cap ship factory, neither work, I hear the sound, but no marker, but if I set a point in the same system, I hear the sound and the marker is displayed, I have tested again, I placed a rally point marker to the next system, the ship was built and went to the edge of the gravity well, to the trade lane, but it didn't phase jump and just sat there, and the marker was there as well,

not have that problem, do you have any mouse software running? if so could it be overriding the game? if its a default driver, then very odd indeed

you have it enabled in the control pannel of windows itself.

go to start>>control pannel>> mouse

look for an option to disable that feature of the middle mouse wheel.

The game keeps freezing graphically but continues to run. The sound is still going and the voice that advertises messages still goes but on screen everything stops. So far I have found a way out of it, I do the 'alt+tab" thing and go to the desktop and then go back to the game and everything that was frozen now jumps to were it actually is. It is annoying when it happens during battles especially. I can hear shots being fired and explosions but not until I do the alt+tab combo do I know what exactly happened. It did it a little bit with only one star, I was trying it out with 4 stars and 20 planets and it is doing it almost every 4 minutes. It runs fine between the graphical freezes. And on the one star game it unfroze graphically by itself after a few seconds, and only did that once in a very long while.

Is there some sort of error logging file? I looked and couldn't find one, or I don't know what it is if there is one. Is smart exception supposed to be logging stuff for it? Because it isn't.

I do have the latest version of DirectX9.0(whatever) from the Microsoft Website installed on my computer as some games I have will not run on DX10; including this one. Here is the print out of my dxdiag file.

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System Information
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Time of this report: 6/22/2007, 19:32:48
Machine name: -PC
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
System Model: RT641AA-ABA a1720n
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz
Memory: 3070MB RAM
Page File: 947MB used, 5377MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: The file ctaud2k.sys is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.
Sound Tab 2: The file ctaud2k.sys is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.
Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7600 GS
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0392&SUBSYS_033E196E&REV_A1
Display Memory: 744 MB
Dedicated Memory: 248 MB
Shared Memory: 495 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic Non-PnP Monitor
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.5818 (English)
DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 4/12/2007 17:07:00, 4669440 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-40D2-11CF-646C-352301C2CA35}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0392
SubSys ID: 0x033E196E
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Revision ID: 0x00A1

EDIT by Blair: I have copied the directX information that posted after this here onto a debug file as it was quite long We are looking into this.

My right alt and ctrl keys don't seem to do anything, even though I know the keyboard isn't broken.

Game won't end if pirates wipe out the opposing AI.