Instability when Evil

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Just for the heck, I decided to try an all evil game. Kept the races the same: 3-evil, 2-good, huge galaxy, planents rare.

The only difference, I did all the evil options.

Things were fine until the game switched to the evil looking interface. All movement became choppy and slow. There were several pauses throughout the game, and it eventually crashed to desktop.

Never had it happen once while playing relatively neutral. Have not tried making all good decisions. Is the screen/interface for good different from neutral players?

Thanks.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, it turns white.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Well now I have recentrly tried all good...

I get the same instability when the game changes to the new graphic representation for good. Game slows down, gets choppy and eventually CTD. (i presume that means crash to desktop?)

So far, I have completed three games while remaining neitral, but unable to complete any games when either good or evil.

Any ideas out there.

When I stay neutral, the game flows perfecetly, game play is smooth, graphics work well, and there are no slowdowns and not a single CTD.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I haven't noticed any difference, whether it's becoming good or bad. Maybe it's something specific to your system.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
That is weird. We'll look into it...and perhaps we should give an option to force the screen NOT to change based on morality. I know there are some folks out there that perfer the neutral screen anyways, so might as well kill 2 issues with 1 fix. :) (not that it'd really be a FIX for the CTD, just a way out).
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
There were some display and sound problems before that some of us solved by upgrading to DirectX 8.1. Could this be a similar problem?
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Vanyel, Interesting. You said-

"Well now I have recentrly tried all good...I get the same instability when the game changes to the new graphic representation for good. Game slows down, gets choppy and eventually CTD. (i presume that means crash to desktop?)"

The overlay (good or evil) seems not to line up perfectly on top of the grey 'standard' screen colour(it seems like an overlay to me as the control panel bit is not overlayed - perhaps as it is to complex?) and when I turn 'good' I get some screen corruption which I have reported today. For me it exhibits as a flicker of the white borders when pop-up's or ship movement occurs. I have not noticed performance degredation, but I have not looked for it - there is definately something in your report I suggest.
The overlay is not precisely alligned either and bits of grey can be seen behind the edges of the white.

steve