Navitron CTD's (false alarm)

[Cmdr Nova]

Crashed twice in Navitron. Both of which, I was running a Ter/Sci career, with a Genris, from the Gazer1 station in Pluto. Both of them, had the destination to Midae.

First time:

Started the career. Launched, and opened Navitron. I clicked on Midae, but the thing said the destination was Chalinis (Alpha Gamma). Clicked it again, it finally said Midae. On exit, it crashed.

Second time (a lot longer):

Started career. Launched. Set Navitron to head to Midae. Just as I was nearing the Wormhole to Centris, I get some intruders on my ship. Marine 6 dies quickly. I'm looking in Perscan most of the time from here on in.

I capture one of the intruders as a prisoner. Just as I'm doing that, I'm hyperjumping to the Tramis jump gate. (I'm in Centris right now.) 3 more intruders come in.

When I reach Tramis, I decide to make the CC halt, and I take a step outside the ship. After a few minutes, I decide to get back in. I manually set the ship to HJ to the Treas gate, and I'm off. I open up the Navitron, check if I'm still set for Midae (and it did say I was), and head into the Tactical computer, to modify some of the marines' orders. (The ones who were going off duty, I had go back to search duty.) When I logged off, it went CTD.

System Specs (again )

Celeron 500

192 MB Ram

ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (Rage 128, 16MB--4.14.7192 drivers)

Windows ME

DirectX 8.1

1.0.01 Patch and (revised) World Script Update

The old CTD When Leaving Navitron was supposed to have been fixed in the Beta patch, so I'm guessing this is a whole new ball game. Yep, I double checked the VCF, didn't find it, and decided to post.

I'll try to reproduce this several more times, and report. Can someone try what I've outlined above (at least doing Ter/Sci, Genris, Gazer1, and set Navitron to Midae)? Or has anyone else had CTDs from the Navitron still, even with the patch?

Don't know if this is truly constant or whatever. (That's why I've marked this "pending research".) I'll try some other caste or launch base and see if Midae or other destinations are causing problems. And if this has been fixed or already noticed, then I've written a useless, long post.

[ 11-23-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Cmdr Nova:

Crashed twice in Navitron. Both of which, I was running a Ter/Sci career, with a Genris, from the Gazer1 station in Pluto. Both of them, had the destination to Midae.

First time:

Started the career. Launched, and opened Navitron. I clicked on Midae, but the thing said the destination was Chalinis (Alpha Gamma). Clicked it again, it finally said Midae. On exit, it crashed.

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1. Both of what had destination to Midae?

2. If its crashing as you say it is (I doubt it, if you patched properly), why are you not testing this particular aspect exclusively?

3. And what thing said Chalinis?

The current location is displayed in Navitron whenever you enter it. You DO know how to use it, right?

[Cmdr Nova]

1. Both instances of the crash.

2. Will do this exclusively, then.

3. In the Navitron, it displays 3 lines:

Current Location

Previous Destination

Current (I think) Destination

The Current Destination one said Chalinis. I was at Pluto (and that's what it said in Current Location). My Navitron screen was 100% in the Terran quadrant when I clicked on Midae and, I'm sure I clicked on Midae.

Oh, I'll try to reproduce the crash again, then re-install and see if I patched it right.

[ 11-23-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[Cmdr Nova]

Couldn't get the Navitron to crash to desktop again.... Even after multiple tries. Bah. Regard this as a false alarm, and keep the Medpacks away from me, please. I think I've gone and had 'em again. (Voice inside saying: "But it smells good... You know you want them...")

But the thing about clicking and having it say Chalinis is true. Try it yourself. Go into the Navitron, and start clicking repeatedly on a planet. Sometimes it will say the planet you click on (like Midae/Omicron Eridani), but sometimes it says some other planet (like Chalinis/Alpha Gamma--or was that Gammula?). I even had it say Madride/Madride, which isn't even in the Full Game universe (only IA). Just wanted to bring this up. Could cause all sort of problems, especially if someone logged off, making it try to find a path to one of the IA Planetary Zones. (Like the Madride one I just described.)

Sorry for wasting your time, SC. If I have any more problems, I'll holler. Feel free to close the topic now. (All the crashes seem random and so far and few between right now, so.... I'll mark this as a False Alarm, now.)

Nova, over and out.

[Supreme Cmdr]

Nova, check your NO stats in the appendix. If she has low AI, you WILL plot an incorrect location in Navitron route and on the map. So, each time you click somewhere, there is a chance that it will be incorrect.

[Guest dnoyeB!]

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

Nova, check your NO stats in the appendix. If she has low AI, you WILL plot an incorrect location in Navitron route and on the map. So, each time you click somewhere, there is a chance that it will be incorrect.

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Haha, thats great. Its not a bug in the program, its a bug in your crew