Multiple Crashes in MP Games

Insiders Edition V 1.89, with Sept 25th update

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Played 3.5 hours MP with one human over Internet. Both using Insiders Edition V 1.89, with Sept 25th update.

Skirmish game with Starburst parameter.

Game froze on 'Turn Starting' every second turn or so. A Debug directory would flash up on my screen briefly, showing debug files, overlaying the game display. 

Sometime we would get a pop-up window with a Checksum Error message. We would have to exit the game and load the last saved or auto-saved game and continue to play.

I found three files, with current date and time, in the game Debug folder:

I can upload these to you, if you let me know how to do so. Thanks.

Update. After we humans finished our MP session, I continued to play the MP game, with the former Human player set to AI control.

I did play another six turns with no crashes at all.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Thank you for the report, we are actively working on making multiplayer a smoother experience and these insights help us.  If you have a related save you can provide via dropbox link that would be fantastic

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Good new on MP games using 1.96. A friend and I continued to play a MP game, which we had started two weeks ago under V 1.95 or 1.94. We played a Skirmish game, Star Burst (huge main sector and 4 smaller ones), with 2 human and 7 AI players. 

We played for about 3.75 hrs with no lags. Then we had a crash to the Debug windows folder, with a desync error. The Debug folder was empty. There were no lags in the game.  When we played two weeks ago, we had a crash to the Debug folder almost every turn, so 1.96 is much more stable for MP.

One thing that is a nuisance is that when I go to bring up the list of saved MP or single-player games, the game takes almost two  minutes to bring up the Save Games list. Similarly, when I hit the Save Game menu item, the game takes almost two  minutes to bring up the Save Game dialogue menu.

Great work  on the game. Love the new ship designer and planet graphics.

Edit - found the Error Log. Found this error text many times: "Debug Message:  Ship Class The Enforcer is a ship with weapons marked as Freighter"

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Latest update on my weekly live MP session.

We continued our Skirmish game, Star Burst (huge main sector and 4 smaller ones), with 2 human and 7 AI players. 

My friend I played V 1.96 Insider's Edition on Oct 16th, for almost four hours.

We had only one crash, a Peer Disconnect error, in the whole session.

We are impressed on the speed of the processing turns for the AI players, given that there are still 7 active in our game, and the fact that there are hundreds of star systems in our game.

Great work!