Hot posts in thread: Planet info when colonizing

Yea that seems to be it. At some point the outpost didn't show either. I think it was on a new game load. In that case sending it to a new system got it working. So far I've been keeping the outpost parked in that system so I can fix the colony screen. I just colonized with my colonizer now though so will see how a new colonizer behaves.

I'll test over on the laptop when I get a chance too just to confirm it works the same there.

 

No problem. During this same game I just moved my colonizer to a new system to colonize it. This time I didn't get the info. I then switched over to the outpost ship I still had in the system I was testing it in. I saw the info displayed there fine still. I then switched back to my colonizer and now it showed the info correctly.

So the outpost ships definitely seem to be what triggers the 'fix' but that's only temporary.

And btw thanks for fixing those white dot artifacts in the colony screen.

 

I found possibly a workaround to this. Today when playing I noticed that when I tried to a build an outpost I saw the info displayed for the bodies in that system correctly. I then tried to colonize another system and it too worked.

I then quit and reload to see if I could reproduce it. This time the outpost or colony action didn't show the information. I then tried going to another system to colonize and it didn't work, either. Going to another system for the outpost ship did work and at that point I was also able to get the colony action to show information when I moved to another system.

So it seems like there is a block on showing this information until an outpost action clears it and then I can see it in colonizing too, but both require going to another system each first.

I'll try to narrow down the conditions further and let you know if I find anything.

 

Btw does this fully support widescreen yet? I just got a new monitor today and tried the game out in that. On the home screen the menu extends a little down the bottom of the screen. In game the research and empire screens also get slightly cut off.

On the ship design screen the heading "Ship Design" gets overlayed on top of the designs. Once inside the design page some of the top parts are going off screen.

It looks like the game is scaling outward and downward instead of just outward (I used to play at 1920x1080).

I've got the resolution set to 2560 x 1080.

 

Yes the only common factor seems to be Win 7 at this point.

Let me know when you want me to try another build.

 

It's UK language if that makes a difference. Drivers are all stock. I get the labels before I hit colonize so they do show at some point.

Here's how it looks before I select the colonizer. For some reason it all displays fine here so it doesn't seem like a driver issue.

 

I initially only played on the desktop so never got that far on the laptop to test. I've now tried on both of my laptop cards and it doesn't show there either.

As far as the desktop I'm not sure what the issue is.

 

Btw now that the memory is better on my laptop I've been playing there and I also don't get the labels of the planets when I hit colonize.

 

Yes, thanks!

And for the other questions, I posted pics above. Hope this is making it clearer!

 

And what I meant with the missing information is this:

The info popup when being normally in a system:


The info popup when the colonize/outpost button in galaxyview was pressed:

 

What I mean with colonizing icon is this:

 

Yes, exactly.