Update 1.2.01 now available for X³: Reunion

LARRYCHAMELEON · Post by **LARRYCHAMELEON** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 15:58

I can play the game again!

Patch does exactly what it says on the tin,

Cheers Egosoft, maybe a few more FPS with the next patch?!?

Lozza

AMD Athlon XP 3200+
1.5 GB DDR 400
ATI Radeon Pro 9800 128MB
XP Pro

wreynoldson · Post by **wreynoldson** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 16:06

|K.O.S.H., just to say that Hyper-threading enabled can be slower than having it disabled for some apps. It helps with multitasking but not so much with a single-threaded app (like most games).

Thanks to the dev team for getting the patches out so fast

Post by **X-Warrior B AS** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 16:06

Can't leave my opinion out of this...

Well done!

Framerate is much, much better. And the game doens't lag terribly anymore when in a menu (especially sector map was bad before now).

Keep it up. Now all we need is the widescreen 16:10 aspect...

|K.O.S.H. · Post by **|K.O.S.H.** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 16:34

wreynoldson wrote:|K.O.S.H., just to say that Hyper-threading enabled can be slower than having it disabled for some apps. It helps with multitasking but not so much with a single-threaded app (like most games).

Thanks to the dev team for getting the patches out so fast

ht doenst influelnce single-threadet tasks

Sgt_Serge · Post by **Sgt_Serge** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 17:09

running on 3,2 ghz, 1gb ram and 9800xt (128mb) the game is now a slide show if more than 3-4 ships are moving around.

Will have to reverse to 1.2 - do I have to uninstall for that?

CybrSlydr · Post by **CybrSlydr** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 18:45

Thank you VERY, VERY MUCH!

joebeard · Post by **joebeard** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 20:02

speeduk wrote:
Scoob wrote:
Pirates are more aggressive. I now have to patrol like in X2 and have a reason to have a fleet.
Thought I was just a bit rusty when I got owned by two Pirate Busters in my Nova THREE TIMES! Did you notice they appear to make far better use of missiles? Like you're on their tail & they can't shake you easily so they launch a load of missile at you...cool!

Scoob.
Yes they are even more deadly and appear with a few novas/falcons leading the groups. Makes for some nice battles.

The pirates went crazy at one point trying to blow up my tps so I have ships patrolling allover.

Your Nova, got owned by TWO busters?! Do you only mount AIREs? I'd say you probably are *fairly* rusty if two busters can take out your Nova!

gungygussit · Post by **gungygussit** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 20:28

karoliussen wrote:I'm reading through the readme 1.2.1 and this comes to my attention;

Immediately stop the game, should you experience any of the following symptoms during play:

- dizziness
- altered vision
- eye or muscle twitching
- mental confusion
- loss of awareness of your surroundings
- involuntary movements and/or convulsions

I'll try to follow that in the near future

Ha.......i got the game a day before its offical uk release, since that weekend - my left eye lid has been flickering non stop, its getting bad, and annoying

I blame it on the first 62 hours of gameplay.

OBIDE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWS AROUND GAMING, or you'll pay for it

Kennymull · Post by **Kennymull** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 20:28

Seriously, I know what u mean I cannot load any of my savesa and they are over 1 day in!!! What the hell. Thought the new patch would fix it? Obviously not. Please let me know if you find a solution!!

McTee · Post by **McTee** » Sat, 12. Nov 05, 21:48

Great News!! Keep up the good work Devs..

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

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Update 1.2.01 now available for X³: Reunion

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