!.07 sadly didnt fix then cant progress turn issue, nor did it fix the out of memory crash issue every 20-30 turns, which are my biggest gripes right now.

Oh and while I remember that annoying rename your city to another factions city name bug when switchign ebtween them REALLY needs quashing that bugs the heck out of me.

Love that monsters have been toned dramatically down now they got crazy hard way too quickly for my tastes, the Ai is still city building like mad however..not that it is necessarily a bad thing but ive noticed they build pioneers inhumanly fast (possible bug) and they don't really build new cities close to thier own necessarily as so much as by the nearest resource..so they spread out pretty far very quickly.

Seems to be some bug with npc's too I got one npc duplicated about 5 times wondering around my world in my current game and they all had the baby picture Cuessessa or whatever the npc is called was the one reproduced. (as an aside all my children have this npc's bio when they come of age too).

Oh and in the workshop in the cartography you cannot load all the maps available TO load, the second from last of the large maps for example will not load..period in the cartogrophers workshop.

Assuming the Dice roll are 1D24 vs 1D100 the odds of scoring at least 20 Damage is 0.4%. So like 1 in 250. The odds of them doing any damage is 11.5%

I had this bug in one of my games. Since you say you can't progress far in the game you can check this but in my game it seemed like they were suppose to be the other Enemy Sovs because I like to play with Max enemies and yet for some reason there was only ONE enemy faction. Also all those heroes with baby pic had Mana, something normal wondering heroes don't have.

Thanks for doing the job you should have already done.

Right - my problem is with that "assuming" part. We already know from the patch notes that it's been changed from 1d24 to separate rolls, but are we talking about 6d4 vs. 1d100, or 6 separate calculations of 1d4 vs. 1d100, or some other possibility I haven't thought of? (for the situation of a squad of 6x 4 attack units vs. a 100 defense sovereign).

This is difficult to test since a 'lucky' hit of 20 is possible in any of those situations, it's a question of how often it'll happen. The difference may be several orders of magnitude depending on how you do the calculation, but it's a fraction of a percent either way, it'd take thousands of trials to get a reliable average. I have seen absurdly unlikely hits like this happen, I'd like to know whether this is something that I can expect to happen maybe once per game or once in a hundred games, but I'd rather not have to run thousands of trials to find out, I'm just saying that an official explanation of the calculations from Stardock would be appreciated.

Well if they are always rolling Dice with a Min value of 1 then 6 attacks of 1d4 vs 1d100 would never score 20. The most it could hope for is 4 vs 1 roll for 3 damage times 6 for a total of 18 Damage. But that would be a 1 in 2400 (4*100*6) chance. This also assumes "fair" dice rolling. As sometimes some programs use random number gens that aren't completely random causing things to happen more often then they should. Sometimes it's related to hardware though more then the code itself. Cause a Computer can't truly do anything "Random" it needs to pull the number from someplace.

Anyhow I digress. Yes it would be very helpful for us to know mechanics behind this rather then us making assumptions about on how something works. Because when it comes down to discussing improvements to the system we will just be taking shots in the dark which won't be as helpful. Like until fairly recently when the devs mentioned it in another post I didn't even know the game had the ability to handle different weapon damage types and that armor was giving different resistant bonuses for these weapons. The UI makes no real reference of this at all. It might of been mentioned in the manual which I only skimmed but I doubt it was there. Besides I'm of the mind that a game should be intuitive enough through UI and such that you shouldn't need a manual.

Hi everyone.

I booted up the game for the first time, updated to 1.07 and I have been playing the campaign just to get familiar with the game. I haven't had one issue until just now. I'm on turn 260 and all of a sudden, the game went from silky smooth to extreme choppiness, even in the option screen and main menu (the background scrolling was even choppy).

I exited the game and restarted it. I loaded up my game and if I scroll or zoom the map, everything is smooth. I can issue orders to my cities without problems. However, as soon as I try to move any troop, it goes back to being choppy and laggy. I have even tried to hit the next turn button without issuing orders, or, canceling all move orders and hitting next turn but nothing works. Issue persists each time I load my save game.

Is this just the general issue people have when they get deep into a game that I've been reading about?

My PC is an Intel i7, 2.6ghz, 6GB RAM, nVidia GTX 275 graphics card, Win7 64-bit Premium.

Running the game at 1920x1200 Res, 4x Aliasing, Outlines off, Shadows Low, and everything else was left at whatever default is.

You problem sounds similar but different.

Machater has a fix helps a number of folks with the OOM issue, thread is here.  I haven't tried it yet so can't personally vouch for it.  Read his first post and check the thread for specifics/updates/etc.

If you do try Machater's fix then it should have an effect if OOM is part of your problem.

Unfortunately, I have Win7 64bit and Machater's fix says "IF YOU ARE RUNNING A 64BIT OS DO NOT DO THIS!!!"  (his emphasis, not mine).

I'll have to try and strip down all the fancy bells and whistles and see if that will solve the problem. But as you said, it doesn't sound like the typical issue people seem to be having.

"If you have 32bit Vista or Windows 7(IF YOU ARE RUNNING A 64BIT OS DO NOT DO THIS!!!) you need to go into command line and type BCDEDIT /set increaseuserva 3072"

I read that as:

-If you have 32 bit Vista/Win7 then go into command line and type BCDEDIT /set increaseuserva 3072.

-If you have 64 bit Vista Win7 then don't do that (and just use the patch as normally described).

Previous to that quote of his he says:

"If you have a 64bit OS then all you need to do is patch your game."

Note: his fix is for Vista/Win7.  Regarding WinXP he says:

-"If you have 32bit Windows XP then you are out of luck as far as I know."

-"I don't know anything about Windows XP 64bit so no clue how it will work on that."

So he's not advocating using it for either 32 or 64 bit WinXP.

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I could be wrong of course, but feel fairly confident.

Well, don't I look like the fool...that's what I get for not reading all the way through 

To Danners

This sounds like the Mem Leak Issue.

As you use more Mem, it starts to use your Hard drive as Mem, this gets slower and slower.

Lee

Pre 1.07:

Out of Memory would show up around turns 200-300. 

Post 1.07:

Out of Memory shows up around turn 500 but the game crashes every 5-10 or so turns. 

I hope you enjoy Elemental and stick with it.  Big improvements are on the way

This patch solved alot of my slowdown problems, but they still all come back late game.  So, in 1.06 I'd start seeing slowdown around turn 50-100.  In 1.07, I see slowdown at turn 300 or so.  So, obviously some great tweaks, but more needs to be done. 

Thanks for taking care of somthing that should have been dealt with in the beta phase.

Well done!!!

*sigh*

I encountered a couple issues I had not had before the 1.07 patch.

1.  Random crashes to desktop, usually when the turn is processing.

2.  Low number (or none at all!) shards are generated on the map.  My current game has 1/2 the map revealed and no shards at all.

I started three more games, and there were still zero elemental shards on any land that I explored.  One of my main gripes with the game is that magic is rather weak.  This bug(?) makes it even weaker.  In fact, the entire game can be played successfully without magic;  just over-run everyone with mundane units.

I think I'll put the game down for now, and wait for more fixes and tweaks.  There are too many things that dont work as intended, or are simply disappointing.

This causes stuttering on my machine.

With the old system I was able to limit the frame rate to 40 and everything ran smooth. Now it is always stuttering because the frame rate is tight to my refresh rate of 60MHz.

Please re-enable the option to set the frame rate limit lower than the refresh rate.

Regards

Xiskio

His point is that they ask like every other turn...very annoying!

The problem with the merchant guide tech has also not yet been fixed, it still fails top show up in the game

How about also looking at the Tech for the Empire side that allows the Lordly Hammer as well as the other two high damage hammers being researched  after less than 10 rounds.  I have peasants walking around with 40att wiping everyone out before the 10th round.

And why three high damage hammers on one tech? I can understand if it was one Blunt, one Piercing, and one edge weapons with similare damage but not three of the same tryp of weapon. I nocied that other weapon and Armor techs also follow thesame trend. This really need to be corrected. Game really needs a lot of work. Even with all the patches released so far the game is still in a beta state. I have told my frinds and family to hold off buying the game until it is more up to par.  I told them it will be but it will take a few months. You know if I had not bought GALCIV2 with both add ons I would have written this game off.  But since I know that in the past Stardock supports it's game then I feel that they will get this game to the point of being good, It's not there yet but hopfully in a few months it will be. Good thing I have AOW, AOW:SM and soon to be CIV V to play until Elemental is where it should have been on release day.

Moar Patches! Rawr! hehe.

You'll get your wish this week most likely.