Comments - CrunchyGremlin

update to latest version

corrupted version of the game.
clean and reinstall from steam

If you havent please come to our discord chat to discuss this

Unsupported windowed resolution more likely. switch to full screen

This just means that you need to install the mod into the existing stardrive folder.

Get on our discord channel for more details on this.

you are talking about the visibility?
yeah.. i think you need scout modules and sensor platforms for this.
there was a big push to reduce the sensor range on platforms which caused a whole lot of code changes. Which was in the end a positive thing.

BlackBox_Venus_develop_10339.exe
this has 3 major updates.
not including all the performance updates and other things.
1. remnants have been greatly expanded. they arent just your friendly neighborhood expansion block anymore. They see you.
2. pirates.
those super lame pirates from vanilla are a whole lot more interesting.
3. War with the ai. The Ai has been given a serious boost to its war ability. it will adjust its attacks and defenses as it can. They glass your worlds and take you planets and just try to smack you. sure sure its an AI. you can beat it. they play by the same rules you do.

Not until we put it back

generally these are caused by a bad install folder or bad ships... kill them.
make sure you delete the game directory. redownload from steam and resinstall. if the issue remains its likely a bad ship.
kill it.
find your ship design folder in %appdata%stardive.
and remove the old designs.

i assume you mean crashes to desktop.
only combined arms is supported as a mod.
Moddb.com
the older mods will need updating to work

We are working on getting STSA back. There were some changes to the way the game loads models which is causing stsa some issues.

Latest Test build, develop_7598, has potential out of memory fixes for win10. This is just a change to the .net memory management type. Switching from server to desktop garbage collection

Yes! Because XNA and SunBurn, SD's game engine, are ancient and crappy.
BUT! we have a partial solution.
by disabling shadows XNA will barf less and so you should be able to eek out a little more life from the game.
this is now the default for all new builds.

yeah we have nod from zero to do this work for educational purposes so most of us are hobby coders. the more skilled people take on the projects that are beyond others skills. like completely recoding the collision, UI, and deep graphic tweaks.
stardrive1 is a unique game.
Working on stardrive and getting advice from the better coders has made me actually capable of coding.
the level of RTS detail in the combat and ship design is really unmatched.

Sorry for the late response here. From that error i can not tell what the issue is. But make sure stardrive works without blackbox installed. Keep in mind as well that blackbox only works with stardrive 15b

Build 810 should fix this.

Might be a bug in that version not previously reported. There has been some work in the ship yard done recently.
Might be a particular race.
As I haven't heard it elsewhere it might be something specific.
A a race. A hull. A module.
Or changing the category or using hangar modules.
Or maybe the mod being used

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+UI fixes

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new test build is up.

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This fixes some hangar issues in the last build.

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Hrmm. We may have a bug there though. I'll check it out.
We should have another test hulls out tonight

It's true. There save format was changed. They are considerably smaller now

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Sorry for the incredibly late reply but for anyone else who may ask this question Combo has been moved into a new mod called "Combined Arms" this new mod is currently being actively supported and updated to use blackbox features and stability.

The files have to go into the stardrive directory.

blackbox is based on stardrive 15b.
the most important part of that is the content. the earlier versions of stardrive have some differences in the content that will not work with 15b stardrive.

I did find a perf issue and fixed it in release 3 on bitbucket.

Combo mod is very old and unsupported. The older mods had lots of bugs and hacks in them that caused lots of problems. BlackBox is less forgiving of these things but also more informative about them.
However... Combined Arms is an updated version of combomod. The devs working on that have put a year plus into fixing and updating it.
please use that instead.