scifispirit Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 First time happened with version 9.3.1 i think, in ground combat during hidden movement on alien or civilian turn. I thought this was related to the Hidden Movement Screen Freeze. However i had those before and the game was still responsive (it didn't crash, was able to close it down normally). What this did however, was that it made the game and also Windows completely unresponsive too. Only solution was to shut down the computer. Happened a second time yesterday with version 9.5, also in ground combat, but this time during the debriefing screen after civilian turn after i had killed the last alien, pressed End Turn and won. As far as i know, user-mode programs shouldn't be able to do this (excluding input unresponsiveness, caused by low level hooks, but i'm not sure if that's the case here), and it has happened previously with Far Cry 2 in conjunction with some visible graphical artifacts in specific areas of the horizon in vegetation. The freezing was fixed by updating display drivers, and i notice that Catalyst 12.4 is available now, so i'll try that. There were no graphical glitches present while the game and Windows froze this time around though. So i'm not sure if this is a bug in Xenonauts considering these two things, but it's a bad problem, as i wouldn't want everything to crash while playing Xenonauts. Has anyone else had this problem? Specs: Windows 7 64-bit Display driver version: Catalyst 12.3 AMD Phenom 2 x6 3.2 GHz 8 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM Asus AMD Radeon HD 6950 2 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmakor Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Yep this will happen reasonably frequently. Generally speaking it will only now happen on the battlescape - most of the Geoscape bugs have been ironed out. Best bet is to save regularly on the geoscape and battlescape and don't have any work on in the background you don't want to lose (as a hard reset seems to be the only solution - particularly in base defense or terror missions) and you can't alt-tab out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Yeah. It can be a bit unstable at times. That's the problem with playing a game that's only half-finished, I'm afraid. Something things go quite seriously wrong. Hopefully come beta all these bugs will be gone. EDIT - Hmmm, my initial reply was probably a little dismissive of this issue. If WINDOWS is becoming unresponsive when playing Xenonauts, that's a pretty major issue. If Xenonauts is crashing or becoming unresponsive, then that's worth reporting but it's part and parcel of the development process. If WINDOWS is becoming unresponsive for you, then chip in on Munchimon's thread here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/f...eeze-Hard-Lock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scifispirit Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Huh Thanks for the replies. I'm actually surprised, since i didn't notice anyone else reporting that also Windows freezes along with the game or that they would have to do a hard reboot. This kind of problem is so rare that it led me to believe there is some protection against problems like these. So that the worst a programmer could cause for a regular program like a game is a regular crash "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" for example. Pretty hard to debug a problem that simply causes everything to freeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 My fake Roger Moore eyebrow raised at this one too. In 9.5 I had a few problems with it being unresponsive. But only to the degree that I ctr+alt+del to the task manager and then closed it down. No issues with the non Deusra one,so I used that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McArnar Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I have the same problem to. System becomes unresponsive and i have to restart i have version 15.1(no desura download) Specs Win 8 64bit catalyst 12.8 Intel I5 8 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM AMD Radeon HD 6970 2 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
di6turbed Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Same here, version 17.51 hangs quite often (together with Windows). It happens every time I try to play, usually in the geoscape (didn't even get to the mission). Could it be the fault of Windows 8? Other specs: Win 8 (64 bit) Processor 2,26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 This could be related to the old problem with mobile graphics cards. They caused problems in previous versions where the geoscape map images would not load up, leaving you unable to play. Apparently a lot of the people who reported that problem are no longer suffering with release 17.5.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
di6turbed Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Will give it a try, and report back! Thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNoyce Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Just had a Hidden Movement crash in 17.52 unfortunately. Was on the Arctic map. Had been several turns moving the tank around, and located the downed UFO Took a shot at an alien standing outside, and successfully killed them. When I ended my turn, the game crashed.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchimon Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Just found this thread after posting one myself (see below) Game causes Windows and whole computer to freeze, only a hard reset/power cycle does help. Glad others are seeing this too. For specs and problem description see my thread -> http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/3999-V17-52-Ground-Combat-Computer-Freeze-Hard-Lock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Hmmm, my initial reply was probably a little dismissive of this issue. If WINDOWS is becoming unresponsive when playing Xenonauts, that's a pretty major issue. If Xenonauts is crashing or becoming unresponsive, then that's worth reporting but it's part and parcel of the development process. If windows is becoming unresponsive for you, then chip in on Munchimon's thread here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/3999-V17-52-Ground-Combat-Computer-Freeze-Hard-Lock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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