Update 1.2.01 now available for X³: Reunion

MillerTime · Post by **MillerTime** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 23:02

Can Egosoft be more specific on the 1.3 patch.

The reason I'm asking is that for people on dial up, if they d/l a 77.8 meg patch and then d/l another 90 meg 1.3 patch, maybe they should just wait if it's like 4 days away until mid november. Also the X3 Canadian version won't be out until November 15th now anyway and some may not bother downloading 1.2.01 if the 1.3 is a day or two later and specially if they are on dialup.

Is the 1.3 patch still being targetted for mid November wich is on the 16th?
will there be a 1.2.01 to 1.3 patch and a 1.0 to 1.3 patch ?

TheMIV · Post by **TheMIV** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 23:45

Nice upgrade, but why mercury tanker ships goes invisible in close range.

I have Geforce 6800 GT. This is very good game but hard to make money.

keithanlyn · Post by **keithanlyn** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 01:38

I am now getting crashes at save games and gates 1.2 had not crashed at all but was stuck in a loop at the last plot mission dammed if you do damned if you dont

g04tn4d0 · Post by **g04tn4d0** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 02:35

This new patch makes the game work SO well for me! I've been playing it non-stop since the patch was released. There's still plenty of bugs, of course, but the game is completely playable.

Still kinda in the dark as to why only certain songs don't decode in the game. Some sectors have music that just sounds like garbage.

w00t! Very happy now!

Sgt_Serge · Post by **Sgt_Serge** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 08:39

after rebooting my pc - because Starf*ck crashed the whole machine again - the game ran more smoothly... still challenged and stuttering a bit but better.

After playing for a few minutes I loaded the same savegame again... and suddenly the menues are hardly reacting - I have to press the arrow keys and enter button several times to get an reaction - the game is a slideshow even when just docking at a station and this docking arm is connecting to the ship and the game is useless again.

I'll now restart the game again and see whether it is true that only the first load works properly...

Given that Starf*ck crashes my pc about once in 5 attempts to start the game I wonder how long it takes until my XP crashes completely.

benderas · Post by **benderas** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 12:33

Even with the new patch my game still crashes at the end..
I am starting to think I am doing something wrong..

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When the first wave of khaaks has been defeated then the crystal splitter fab is moving. Then I must fly after and I try to pass it by flying over it in the "tunnel". Just about the time I get as far as the crystal splitter fab the game crashes..

It did so before the new patch and also does it after the new patch. Is it because I should start further back then I did, if yes how far back/what mission should i go back to?, if no.. Then what could be wrong??

Lonewolf102 · Post by **Lonewolf102** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 14:40

Well I am very happy to have the game and be well enough to play...1201 seems to give me ctds at some odd places in plot (restarted after alot of trouble with random black screens and skiping holes in the 2nd mission "i had no idea what was going on untill after I left the planet???? anyway it seems playable if a little choked in argon prime but I gues thats normal "still playing with my settings and windows to max out fps. But even without the plot I get ctds during a fights on ocasion during deaths and most anoying when I load saves...but get this not all the time it might work great for an hour or more and I can probably load the same save this morning and it will work fine? Also I get black screens during jump gate minivid I can hear it cant see it. odd that

Anyway looking forward to 1.3 and any sugestions from the community or mods. I will keep playing with my settings.
Forgot my comp specks

AMD 64 3200+ running at 2ghz
Geforce fx 5900 xt running a forced cell and vertex shader of 1.4 and 1.1
Sound card is a sb audigy 2
2x120 gb drives with pleanty of cash memory for both
1gb of 400mhz ram
dvd and cdrw drives running the dvd version out of deep silver

I am running the game at the moment at 1280 by 1024
high texture (may try lowering but this rarely helps my card in games)
med (shadows may lower this to low)
eax (my sound card is designed for it)
acq on (may turn it off if I can get a stable setting
aa on at the moment forceing 2x (may turn this off)
af (turned this off for now but first attempt It was on forcing 2x shrug)

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 17:04

The patch appears to have fixed the problems caused by frequent saving, so I can at least continue with my game for now. However, I've already had one CTD (when loading an autosave), and a random lockup, so there's obviously still work to do. Hopefully 1.3 will improve things further.

James Manson · Post by **James Manson** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 17:22

Been playing 1.2.01 for a day now, and I think it has made a big difference, although I've been in mostly quiet sectors. Good Work and Thanks.

Epyon0071 · Post by **Epyon0071** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 17:32

Im having problems with my keyboard since i installed 1.2/1.2.01 when i press F2 to external view it looks toward the front of the ship and when i try to go back to the cockpit (F1) it doesnt work and when im in the menu area its messing up it wants to jump the menu i want the highlighter moves to fast and i skip the menu i want and when i press enter it does it like if i press it twice but it didnt do that in v1.0 nad when im in the external view and try to look around me the num keys dont work 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 but 5 works dont know why and the - and + works and the others and i think the other keys work on the keyboard i dont notice any others besides them i even try changin keyboards. Please help

Lidza · Post by **Lidza** » Sun, 13. Nov 05, 18:57

Well, I'm sorry to have to write this Egosoft.

But I've been forced to reinstall X3 on same day that I've installed your latest patch 1.2.01.

Previously, with 1.2.00 I had no CTDs, I played X3 since its release using low resolution to have better response from the game. Today after patching X3 with your latest patch (1.2.01) I counted 5 freezes... So time to reinstall X3 and leave it with a more estable level 1.2.00

If this latest patch worked for others, well congrats for others... but unfortunatly made my X3 instable almost to a point of giving up.

I'm reinstalling X3 at this right moment.

Please could you leave the link for Patch 1.2.00 in your download page, so that would allow people that like me need to reinstall the game to have it patch. But not with the latest patch release. Thanks

Goatboy · Post by **Goatboy** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 02:10

I need a link to the old 1.2 patch as well.

I was running X-3 with patch 1.2 with no problems (aside from a couple of plot line glitches). I installed the new patch 1.2.01 and upon loading my X3 game I get this.

This effect is on the DeepSilver logo on loading, the menu page, new games and older saved games. I uninstalled X3, and reinstalled. This time I updated with the upgrade patch from v1.0 to 1.2.01 but experienced the same problems.

Can I get, if not a solution, a link to the 1.2 patch?

System: PIV 2.8Ghz, 1.5Gb RAM, ATI 9800 Pro, Windows XP Pro

Goatboy · Post by **Goatboy** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 02:20

Lidza wrote:
Please could you leave the link for Patch 1.2.00 in your download page, so that would allow people that like me need to reinstall the game to have it patch. But not with the latest patch release. Thanks

Here you go: http://www.fileplanet.com/158123/150000 ... v1.2-patch

captain1 · Post by **captain1** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 02:56

i was playing x3 with the 1.2 and it was playable but slow and laging.
then installed the 1.2.1 patch i had two freeze up,s . tryed it again and it now work,s . it is a little better but not much when it come,s to laging on the frame rate .
it needs to be a lot more smoother and less choppy

Epyon0071 · Post by **Epyon0071** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 04:40

Well i just now realize that its not cause of the patches after installing the game 5 times, tho for some reason it just did it when i installed them. I still dont know how to fix it, nor know whats makin it do it. please someone help.

moggy2 · Post by **moggy2** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 04:51

Epyon0071 wrote:Well i just now realize that its not cause of the patches after installing the game 5 times, tho for some reason it just did it when i installed them. I still dont know how to fix it, nor know whats makin it do it. please someone help.

visit the tech support forum, you'll find more help there.

don't forget to post as much details as possible about your problems.

Epyon0071 · Post by **Epyon0071** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 04:54

yea thanks i just did

coranthia · Post by **coranthia** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 12:05

If X3 is running well for you with 1.2 DONT UPGRADE TO 1.2.1!!!! I did and I was sorry. More crashes, more glitches. I had almost none of these with 1.2

If I re-install and save my save games will they run under 1.2 if they were saved under 1.2.1?

BurningFrog · Post by **BurningFrog** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 15:23

I'm not sure if this was asked but how long will it be for the copies on the store shelves to have the patches?

Post by **CBJ** » Mon, 14. Nov 05, 15:25

Copies on store shelves will not have patches unless/until a new run of CDs/DVDs is printed.

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Update 1.2.01 now available for X³: Reunion

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Keyboard Problems

Amen!