Factions, Research Boosts and Drone Problems

[ete]

iirc it's directdraw=1, I was playing like that for a while, but I could be wrong.

[Reefa]

It's either the line  "[PREFERENCES]ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1" at the end of my Alpha Centauri.ini file or the line "[Alpha Centauri]DirectDraw=0" at the beginning. Don't know anymore which one does what. I'm also open for some games, if someone wants to (even others, like my favorite Total Annihilation). Should fix that Vehicle-Thing on SMAX though, since you can't reach lategame with that ... no one an experience on that?

Regards,
Reefa

[Green1]

Direct draw and force voxel trick does not work with some laptops running Intel HD family embedded cards.

[ete]

I know it used to not work and be crashy on modern comps, but I thought scient fixed that?

[Reefa]

Coming back to my other and way bigger issue: Anyone has an idea why Internet-Savegames crash ACX in the loading process 1st after about 100 to 150 turns and 2nd at the part of the Vehicle-Loading? The save files are loaded without problems in Singleplayer, but always crash in Multiplayer at the Vehicles-Part. ACX-Versions of the players are the same on all data / files. It somehow makes playing impossible and we had no such issue on AC. It's just ACX.

Regards
Reefa

[Geo]

No idea at all. 

[ete]

Provide reproducible saves and all the detail you can and one of the .exe modders may take a look at it

[Reefa]

Attached one save file (you probably need my faction pack). What details you need?

Regards,
Reefa

[ete]

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?board=23.0 post a topic there with all the relevant downloads, explain exactly what situations cause a crash.

I'm not an exe modder, I won't be able to help. Yitzi may be able to, or scient/kryub if they return.

[Buster's Uncle]

They will.  The IF is 'in a timely fashion'.