Need some help with a frustrating bug.

Spartan206 · #1 June 4th, 2007, 04:18 PM

Yeah, just as the title implies, this bug is really irritating. I'm wondering if anybody else has encountered it, and if there is a way to fix it.

I minimize the game to respond to an IM or to change the song I'm listening to, while it's processing the AI players' turns. Once it has completed, the log pops up but not the window. Okay, fine, so I read through the log, and go into the game. But lo and behold, now every time I open a window, it opens invisible or behind the main one, or some garbage, and I can't click on it, alt+tab to it, or anything.

The first time this happened, I got mad and clicked around a bit and tried alt+tabbing and hitting the windows key, and after a while, it started working again, for no apparent reason.

This time, however, nothing is working. I haven't saved in a while, and really don't want to lose the progress I've made by having to alt+f4, or end the process in task manager.

If anybody knows how to fix this, please let me know. It's extremely bothersome.

Fyron · #2 June 5th, 2007, 01:17 AM

Never seen that happen before. What type of system are you running it on?

Spartan206 · #3 June 5th, 2007, 05:13 AM

Running it on Windows XP. No idea why it does this, so I've stopped alt+tabbing during turn processing for now.

Off topic, love your quadrant mod, Fyron. (The deluxe v210) I never use the original quad types anymore.

iaen · #4 June 5th, 2007, 10:41 AM

I've had this happen a few times as well, although I mostly had problems getting the log window back in front of the main game window... I've never found a really reliable way to get the windows sorted out properly. Sometimes after you Alt+Tab a few times or select the game in the taskbar it works again, sometimes it doesn't.
It's happened enough times that I automatically disable the 'display log on turn start' when I'm going to switch back and forth a lot. Haven't had any problems since.
I also always use autosave on every turn ever since I first ran into this.

Spartan206 · #5 June 9th, 2007, 05:32 AM

Yeah, I have started auto-saving as well. I still would like to not have to reload my game too much, and would die without the log showing at the start of my turn, haha, so I'll probably just have to learn to be more selective with when I tab out. Ah well, thanks for the help!

Fyron · #6 June 9th, 2007, 07:51 PM

For reference, you can manually display the log by clicking on the log button.