Galactic Civilizations III Beta Patch 0.51 Now Available

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Today’s patch fixes a pile of bugs (thank you for your bug submissions and crash reports!), cuts memory usage by 30%, and greatly speeds load and shutdown times.

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Galactic Civilizations III Beta 0.51 Patch Notes


Features

Tab now ends your turn if there is no actions pending


Major Fixes

Fixed lots of crashes (thank you all for submitting crash information, it has been invaluable)

Memory utilization significantly reduced (30% less memory needed)

Game loads and shuts down much faster


UI

Fixed inverted normal maps on flipped UV's (ie: this graphics programmer talk for "the ships look better now")

Removed the "Planet Name" debug string on the planet screen

Approval tooltip in the upper right now shows population growth

Awarded improvements are no longer shown as rushed or about to be completed in queues

Better strategic resource tooltip formatting

Prettier stat breakdowns that illustrate that indented entries are breakdowns of substats

Fixed a mismatched new income preview calculation in govern window vs real-life calculation

Fixed a nonsense number of defending ships in the planet tooltip


Fixes

Fixed a crash in multiplayer when 3 players are trading at once

Fixed a desync in multiplayer if the player have their autosave turns set differently

Fixed a stuck turn caused by the AI trading techs with each other

Fixed a crash in battle confirmation

Fixed a desync in multiplayer from declaring war by moving onto another players ship

Fixed a crash from Galactic Events that target planets

Fixed an intermittent crash from the Patent Boards UP resolution

Fixed a crash when Pirates capture shipyards

Fixed an issue where the game could display the map before being fully loaded

Fixed an occasional crash when going into the planet screen

Fixed a bad value on the Xeno Archiology module which made relics 500% better than they were supposed to be

Fixed an issue where double click on the shipyard/starbase in main list didn't do anything

Fixed an endless eject popup loop issue

Fixed a crash from cancelled battles

Fixed a stuck turn when the AI has a battle planned

Shutdown happens much faster

Fixed an issue where treaty income wasn't being correctly saved

Fixed a crash if you were moving to a rally point and deleted the rally point

Fixed a crash if you closed the govern planet screen with hotkeys, then started a new game and opened the planet screen

Fixed an issue where you could colonize a planet more than once

Fixed an issue where the population popup wasn’t appearing for upgraded constructors departing planets

Fixed a crash when unlocking the Persuasion ideology

Fixed a crash when the United Planets Headquarters resolution ends


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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thank you! Will start a new game up and get some turns in sometime today. 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Has it come out yet? I haven't seen it yet and it's 14:00 EDT here.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It's available now.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting ckhenson, reply 2

Has it come out yet? I haven't seen it yet and it's 14:00 EDT here.

I have got it.

But it still identifies itself in the main menu windows as version 0.50. The executable is version 0.51.3, and quite some resources have been updated. So i assume that the shown version number has not been corrected.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The issue with equipping ships is still there and extremely frustrating.  Please fix this.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I still dont have it. No update, no download. I relog 100 times.

 

24h later. Anyone know why I cant download patch?

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Have you checked the .exe and made sure you don't have 0.51?  Otherwise, I'd suggest contacting support.

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

 

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Scorpio, check the properties of GalCiv3.exe for the last modification date and version. The file can be found in folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III and you can view the properties by right clicking on the file name and then clicking "properties" Both the "date modified" and "Product version" can be found under the "Details" tab and should show the date 10/23/2014 with a time (mine shows 10:58 AM -- I am in the PDT time zone), and version 0.51.3.0. The "Loading" window still shows "0.50" instead of "0.51" when I load the game, but I know I have 0.51 because of what is in the properties of the GalCiv3.exe file.

BTW, the error of the "Loading" window showing the wrong version has been reported in reply #4 of this thread.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Another double post. Please ignore or delete.

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok, i checked. I have 0,51 but... like you said in main menu is 0.50, and it should save 30% of memory, but I still can't start game, because it crash and says "Out of memory". Maybe next patch.