Two small bugs (not very important)

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1. When you colonize a new planet, on the Colonizing Event screen, an old picture from the previous Colonizing Event screen appears for a split second before it changes to the new correct one.

 

2. On the Starbases tab in the sidebar, when you click on a type of starbase (Shipyard, Economic, Mining) just after selecting the tab (when its set to All), sometimes it does nothing, and you have to click on another type for the button you originally wanted to start work again.

 

I have dual Radeons 5870s, Windows 8.1 and dual monitors.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

RE:  number 1:  

This reminds me of the problem that persists: when multiple AIs try to contact you all but the last flash so fast you can't tell even who they are.   I assume if it was something important it would pop up again, but I dunno.

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

1. When you colonize a new planet, on the Colonizing Event screen, an old picture from the previous Colonizing Event screen appears for a split second before it changes to the new correct one.

I have seen this too.

What i think is the problem is that it is a direct-x buffer usage problem. Direct-x normally work with a front- and one or more back-buffers. In one you draw something and the other one is shown.

Normally the sequence is like: you draw something in a back buffer, you switch the buffers (the back buffer becomes the front buffer, and the front buffer becomes a back buffer), you show the (front) buffer.

What appears to happen here is: They show the buffer (the front buffer still contains the image of the last time this buffer was used), they update the image in the back buffer, they switch the buffer (now you see the new colonization image). The faster your system the shorter the flash of the old image will be.

If my hypothesis is correct then the fix will be trivial.

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I noticed another small bug: In ship designer, select a ship and hover over Tactical speed in Selected ship details - there is a value named "Missing Info" in the pop-up.