Game crashes after space combat

Mine is now doing exactly as you describe. It wasn't several turns before.
However, the tactical simulator isn't effected. I attacked several different groups and the same problem persists. Used different vessels also.
Both of my groups I attacked were minor races. I have no contact with primary groups yet.
In and out of fleets. Using fleets seems to lock the game up like antifreeze and dogs.
So um, what's the point of the game if it locks up if you get in a minor battle?

I have the exact same problem. And I noticed that combat works at the beginning of the game but at some point for some reason it does this. i don't have that program on my system and I can't figure out what the problem is. New games all owrk fine...for a while. Hope someone can come up with a resolution.

I had the same problem, but once I turned off SLI in the NVidia control Panel, the crashes went away. I do have to remember to turn it on/off each time I change games though.

Dont have SLI or Crossfire on this system and it happens on my laptop as well.

Yours in gaming,
~Elucidus

I've just got the same error and crash as you guys
"No buffer"...I had one up till now but its just been stolen

At about turn 200 +/-...Trying to find a work around but No luck up till now.

Even thought this problem had been fixed in the patch...Oh well seems its back...or it never went away

Only the Awkward question; only the Foolish ask twice

I've had combat exceptions as well.

It seems to occur during pursuit battles when units leave the map. I'd imagine the problem is that the engine just lets the map expand until it exceeds available memory.

So this is game #2 for me - I had to quit #1 since combat causes crashes and I was in a situation where enemies always start a fight... Well, here I am again.

It is 2411.0 and I move a single cruiser onto a warp point with 3 enemies on it. Now I've fought this battle several times before, and they scattered in the first battles where I had more than one ship. Last turn they tried attacking since I only left one ship so the battlefield started with them at their extreme ranges and coming towards my ship at the warp point. I got to kill a slew of them that time before the pause between shooting got the game to call it a tie.

This time my cruiser catches one of them, kills it, and starts towards the next one (all automatic battle) and then the game says the fight is over. By the game clock I think it took 5+ minutes to reach the first enemy (8x speed) with my ship at 15 and theirs at 12.

I click "Close" and the game crashes. First time for this game, but that pretty much means I'm done this time too since I'll have to reload and now avoid combat for as long as I want to play which is nearly impossible since I can't use the political interface to create ANY treaties...

I am *really* looking forward to this fix!

Sorry if I'm not supposed to reply to my own message, but I reloaded from the end of the previous turn, played through most of the turn the same, came down to the fight, saved the game, moved the ship off the WP then attack the enemies on the WP - we spent > 5 minutes moving towards each other, the game called it a tie, I clicked Close... and it didn't crash. Not really sure what that means.

Hopefully this isn't just to read my own words, but I've just experienced several things I hope help the devs:

1a. One ship attacks a colony ship - it runs with 13, mine has 15 and eventually catches up and kills it. Game crashes.

1b. Reload from just before that fight, instead attack a nearby world and clear it, then go back and fight the colony ship. What appears to be the same battle to a casual eye ends, and the game does not crash.

Also the next turn I have this experience in the same system:

2a. 3 ships attack a fortified planet, clear it but an AI satellite ship is running for it since the start - the AI referee ends the battle before I reach it. Battle ends. Then another ship moves into the system causing the battle to resume at exactly the same spot in the chase. This time the colony ship is killed even further away from the center of the map. The game crashes.

2b. Reload from just before that battle, I start it again but order one ship to immediately follow the runaway. The planet is cleared, my ship eventually runs down the runaway, I win the battle, but the game crashes.

So it looks like the earlier poster was correct that it has to do with the game dealing with the auto-expanding super-sized battle boards. Except it is also tied with the game remembering they exist - perhaps a buffer overflow from trying to remember too much battle-board area at once across many battles? Then the battle which kills the game could be of any size. Enemy ships do always seem to be placed where I last left them, even if the whole fleet of them has moved several minutes off-center.

-Chris

Not my case of an expanding map as there is not a chase. The enemy come though a WP that I have mined. For some reason the comp goes to combat map where no ships are shown.

The game times out and crashed with no buffer error.

Only the Awkward question; only the Foolish ask twice

That's a bit strange since mines are supposed to detonate when a ship comes into the sector.

The mines themselves wouldn't show up since they carry the flag "Does not show up in combat"

The two things that come to mind are - 1. It's a bug, nuff said
Or the more elaborate theory 2. You've got a treaty that shares mine codes, but still allows combat (like a non-intercourse). That would cause combat to trigger but because mines don't show up you don't see them.

.......buuut, it's probably a bug.

Your lord and master (below Foamy) LordHavoc

Yeah has to be a bug as I don't have any treaties with anyone. In fact I'm at war with the empire that sends its ships though the WP.

Only the Awkward question; only the Foolish ask twice

I am pretty sure my combats didn't always have someone running, in fact I have destroyed exeryone a couple of times and it still crashed...

Yours in gaming,
~Elucidus

I think Cpt Kwok posted the 1.09 changelog a few days back, and the fix that made me happiest was that this buffer error is fixed, because right now it's becoming a game-breaking bug.

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With all these people, you would expect one of them to carry an iguana around...

EDIT: 1.09 Patch notes "13. Fixed - Buffer Error at the end of combat." I'm crossing my fingers and waiting for 1.09 (or .10 or .11)

so, um, when do we get relieved of this issue.

Yours in gaming,
~Elucidus

The voices in my head are suggesting the next patch, be it .09, .10, .11, or whatever should come out within two weeks.

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With all these people, you would expect one of them to carry an iguana around...

Too bad we couldnt' get a beta of it or something just to get us going again. It being unplayable is really annoying.

Yours in gaming,
~Elucidus