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[quote who="JuleTron" reply="4" id="2391675"]The new Halcyon is an absolute monster. 6 squads by lvl 3 with ADA and Anima Tempest doubles the strength of all the Halcyon's SC squads. Very useful cap ship and all its abilities are very powerful.[/quote] Am I making something wrong? Where do you see those squadrons? My Level SIX carrier has 6 squads (with lvl 2 ADA). Although I did that upgrade, it did neither change the amount of squadrons listed in the control nor the amount o

I've seen two sources for such things in "normal" Sins: 1) Fleets phase jumping (they should jump grouped together but won't ever do that). If I order the first ships to attack, all ships who did not yet initiate the jump will later also attack, but all ships which are currently jumping will simply MOVE to the enemy ship without fighting! HORRIBLE BUG! 2) Ships with special abilities often have very low attack damage. I haven't yet found a way to manually FORCE them to attack.

[quote who="Lisutbg" reply="4" id="2388231"]Hey man problem resolved.....I deleted ArcaVir:D to keep it's mouth shut...eh...I should never buy PC magazines just because they give free Antivir.....this one just turned out to be a pain in the ass lol[/quote] That's so very true! I recently did help someone who bought a magazine which came with another free virus scanner. Turned out that the scanner damaged her operating system (Vista) upon uninstall. Since the 1 year license was over, u

[quote who="TrueMonotony" reply="7" id="2384011"]I'm onboard with this. The single most common source of cursing when playing Sins is the pathfinding. The post above is very correct. If I want my ships to arc, flank, or take a field trip while I'm fighting for my life I'll f-ing tell them to do it myself. [/quote] Yes. Playing advent, I have to tell a disciple to flee as soon as it gets the first hit from a single LRM frigate (defenders of neutral planet) as otherwise the s

Still attempting to wake up...but a few thoughts: 1) Could it be that you did not make a complete installation so that some sound files are used from the german only DVD? 2) Did you change anything after installing in german? Vista then typically creates a copy of the files in the users VirtualStore. If you later install anew, the originals may be updated, but the ones in VirtualStore kept and override the new installation. Screet

Welcome to the club! I was horrified by the german language version, and I'm also a native german. I even had trouble understanding the german translations, aside from the annoying voices. The thing that worked well for me was this: - uninstall the german version completely but keep impulse - use impulse to re-install the game from the internet and select english (actually, that way it was much faster to install than from DVD!) ...and then be happy abou

[quote quoting="post"] whenever I open the game it makes this really high whining noise and it's very annoying the game works fine but no matter what I do the noise is still there its there even if I mute the volume or turn off the speakers, any ideas? [/quote] Are you using a CRT? If turning off the speakers doesn't help, it's coming from your system somehow. Best guess is a CRT that's dying and has trouble to handle the resolution, colors or such. Especially likely if la

Hi, I also get that thing, happening on the polygon borders. However, I usually never zoom in that far, I typically only can see those icons, and then the game is running in a graphics mode that's like a late-80's game anyway ;) If I zoom in, well, there's nice graphics, but it's not well possible to control things... [quote who="Doktor Teufel" reply="15" id="1999644"]Granted, technical support here seems mostly non-existent, and I don't know of any way to report bugs or glitc

You can copy the files. The difficulty might be to locate them. On my vista machine, they're stored in C:\Users\Screet\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Save-SinglePlayer and it is necessary to show hidden files. I don't know where these files are stored under other Windows versions. Maybe you should make a search for the saved filenames after enabling visibility of such files. Screet

Hi, we probably will be rid of this soon :) At least for the problem I experienced, they were able to reproduce it from the save games I provided. They also said that they already reorganized the handling, solving the problem! Screet

[quote who="DeathsBrother" reply="2" id="2363294"]It isnt a slowing down problem its a stuttering. (As in the game freezes)[/quote] If you're talking about a little graphics update, then the game stops (even for several seconds) then a little graphics update and another stop, then we're most probably talking about the same thing. However, those little graphics updates are very slow for me then, and before the game begins to behave like this, it's simply slowing down. I also can quit s

Hi, I suggest to make save games when this comes heavily into effect. Then stop the game, relaunch it and then reload the saved file. If it's still slow, contact the support. The problem seems to hit quite some players, although most seem not to have it. The support people asked me for such save files and said that in the past they were never able to replicate this behaviour. I noticed myself that after restarting the application and reloading the saved game, there's a

[quote who="C1D8B" reply="8" id="2358762"]Just out of curiousity, how many planets do your games have on average? I usually have 600-1200 min/max with graphics maxed and ten players with no less then eleven systems with no lag until every player has maxed fleets, and even then it's still playable.[/quote] 32 planets (medium-large random maps), no mods. The slowdown is not dependent upon enemies present or their strength. I once tried a large random map, but that was so bad concer

Hi, I've got a massive slowdown problem, too. There's a simple way to rule out your guess that it's a memory problem: Reduce the graphics to minimum. You will notice that the game uses around 550MiB in that case, but still suffers from the extreme slowdowns! Someone mentioned that trade ports would cause it. I think it's multiple issues, but the slowdown typically becomes much more dramatic after building a few of those super guns like deliverance engine. The real prob

Hi again, can you report any progress on that matter? I myself have toyed around a bit...and am VERY sure now, that most of the slowdown comes from the big guns like deliverance engine. Might still be coincidence...the game was slowing down, but only after building 6 of these guns at once it immediately was very slow...and that over multiple games. Another interesting point is that the game still does max out one of my cores when it's paused and after alt-tabbing away

I just had task manager open while switching back to lowest graphics details. It doesn't affect the slowdown problem, but the memory consumption dropped from 1.4 GiB to 550MiB. As a result, low memory problems (from 32bit restriction on a 8 GiB 64bit system or leaks) can be excluded as the source. Again, it's only one core that is busy...and yet again, the slowdown did increase the most after building the typical 10-20 race dependend guns. Screet

[quote who="SoulFire1200" reply="5" id="2342754"]Screet - It sounds like you may have a memory leak or something like that. If you've tried turning your settings down and it bogs your system even AFTER the game is over, could be bad ram. That has also been a problem for me in the past. Could also be your system isn't getting enough power, or an over heating issue but I'm more inclined to think it may be your memory. I would recommend you do a system test and see if any

[quote who="SoulFire1200" reply="3" id="2342458"] Well there is no SP2 for the 64 bit version I believe... Nothing comes up under my updates tab so I don't know about that.[/quote] That service pack is available for quite a while now. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit and got SP2 too long ago to remember. Maybe there's something wrong with your update settings? [quote who="SoulFire1200" reply="3" id="2342458"]If it's true it really doesn't use all 4 cores, then that

[quote who="CaptainAanderson" reply="7" id="2335147"]Sins (if i'm not mistaken) is not multithreaded, so it does not take advantage of multiple cores very well. If sins is running on one core and maxing it out then the game will crawl. You can set the core affinity of processes with the task manager and move sins to a core with less activity on it and see if that helps things.[/quote] It appears not to be, but it's advertised as a multicore game. Task manager, however, says that it's

[quote quoting="post"]Edit: I am currently in contact with a member of Ironclad Games' technical support and will post any update related to this issue in this thread if anyone is interested. [/quote] One reason surely is, that the game only uses a single core, although advertised as multicore. My machine is pretty much idle except that one core. If there's any way to help, I'd gladly do so...but the guys didn't even respond to my first bug reports, and I've got q

[quote quoting="post"]I have a BFG 295GTX on the way if that's what is currently holding me back. Thanks for the feed back!!! [/quote] I doubt that. I've got a Phenom 9500 (4 cores at 2200) with 8GiB RAM and a GTX 295 - and sometimes I get about one frame per 5 seconds. Although the game is advertised as a multicore using game, it's only using one CPU core. My system therefore isn't doing much. I can run other apps without any further interference

Hi, I recently bought this very nice game. Sadly, the version was german only, but by uninstalling it and then reinstalling it online (faster than from DVD!) I got the english version *smile* - I am writing this as I did not see this slowdown problem before switching to the english version, but I did not play Advent with the german one. I really do not know what causes this slowdown. The user interface doesn't even handle mouseclicks properly. Playing Advent is a good way to e