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Good day,  just started playing this have over 2 hours so far, couple things I notice. 

1. Windows 10 fails to host game, game launches then crashes- had to reboot computer it was locked up tight.

2. My Cross-fire is disabled

3. When placing items on the landscape they look like there submerged inside the "dirt"

4. can we slow down the reminders of adding logistics

 

Thanks

 

Action1w

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I think You a problem with your video card driver, try doing a clean install of your video card driver.

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top


1. Windows 10 fails to host game, game launches then crashes- had to reboot computer it was locked up tight.

I don't think that is a common occurrence for Windows 10 users, not sure what is happening there.


2. My Cross-fire is disabled

Not supported yet, multi GPU support coming real soon though. Might even be in the Beta through dx12, not sure though. I'd expect traditional dx11 CF/SLI later as that needs AMD and nvidia to do there thing.


3. When placing items on the landscape they look like there submerged inside the "dirt"

Yeah, a lot of the buildings are very flat and then somewhat sunk into the ground. The Nexus is one of the few tallish buildings. One of my biggest problems with it is that there is nothing to hit with the various beams and lasers of the units. If they shoot a factory the lasers will just go to the middle and suddenly stop with no visual reason to why as the factory is flat and has no high walls to hit. It looks a bit odd and I miss the more natural look of things pounding the walls or edge of a building. Of course it is different for ballistics which can hit anywhere and it is OK. 

 

4. can we slow down the reminders of adding logistics

I think many ask for this :)

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Have now 8 + hours into this, next update

Beginning of the game seems fine,

Middle and ending of game:

Unit selection (drag box around units using mouse) seems speratic

As we add more units to map game-play slows done, screen play gets choppy, units don't respond to mouse commands to move to "x"

screen flickers when getting to edge of map, all white screen or all back screen.  random color shift.

 

Thanks

Action1w

Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

What is your system?

Last night I tried to get as many units as possible to see how it did before crashing. Someone said they got to a logistics value of 18000 which is way higher than I had seen elsewhere. I got to 10,000 before it crashed. that was on DX11. I loaded it up the save game in DX12 but it still crashed around the 10K logistics mark. Frame rate had dropped a bit but other than that I didn't notice any slow down or other graphic glitches (edge of map glitch is there from the beginning). I built mostly T1 so probably had between 3k-4k units (where 4 brutes = 1unit) so not bad. Hopefully a lot better with the Beta.

 

Reply #5 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

FYI, Crossfire (and SLI) support for any game comes from the GPU mfr in the form of drivers, not from the game code itself.

Reply #6 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

There is a limit to the number of units that can be selected at once, and there is a bug which occasionally prevents the selection rings from disappearing when deselecting units. This can be perceived as non-responsive units and can make controlling armies larger than ~1K at a time difficult.

 

There is also an inconsistent delay with using the drag box which gets worse as the system gets under heavier load.

Reply #7 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Quoting Kazzerigian, reply 5

FYI, Crossfire (and SLI) support for any game comes from the GPU mfr in the form of drivers, not from the game code itself.

Not in DX12

Reply #8 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

DX12 doesn't support multi-GPUs yet, I don't believe.

Reply #9 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

OK sorry about not getting back to you all sooner:

 

AMD FX 8320 8 core

2 Radon R9 200 series 1 gb ech video cards (with crossfire)( disabled while playing Ash)

8 Gig memory

DX 11

 

1000 + units mixed of brute and archer

20 cruses

3 dreadnots

 

Action1w