Invisible Ships, Purchase Queue Glitch, Combat Crash

[alben_42]

So I have a new laptop and unfortunately I am using windows 8. I was able to fix the lag issue with the 3 files ddraw.dll, libwine.dll, and wined3d.dll but I have noticed a few "issues".

I started to play a game I had saved from a year ago and some of my ships had disappeared. They magically popped back up after a few turns upon arriving in the systems I had originally ordered them to. Another issue is that when I rush/buy an improvement in a system, the build queue that displays the cost is not popping up. The system buys the improvement automatically. The other issue I am experiencing is a constant crash in combat. Here is what I found in the crash log and it seems to be the same issue every time.

ST:BOF Sun May 4 13:13:20 2014

Version Under Test: 72
File: ..\..\source\ui\tactical\sfx.cpp, Line: 1300, healthRatio <= 1.0
Initialize State: 31
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1376779367
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2
Turn State: 20
Turn Number: 443


I am playing the UDMIII Mod On The Large Map. Can anyone tell me what is specifically happening to cause the game to crash?

[thunderchero]

Hi alben_42

old save do not work on new version.

That crash log show different ship list than what game was saved on.

sorry, only way would be to reinstall older version.

thunderchero

[adi]

The auto-buy, without the "are you sure you want to spend this much", is a patch; it can be disabled using QD's patcher; here is how: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3140

But the "auto-buy" is a feature in UDM3.0.1dd which may not have been availabe a year ago when you created that save you mentioned.
Did you installed the new UDM3.0.1dd and then transferred the saved game form an older mod? maybe UDM3.0.1dc? That may be the source of your problems since ship stats have changed in the new mod.

[alben_42]

It seems you are both correct. Man this really sucks. The game I had going was freaking awesome.