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MC closed twice in one night

5y
#1
Getting frustrated. I have a new colony, and twice tonight I made a ton of buildings and spammed landing pads, and got a huge bump in pop.

First time MC closed itself was when I was in Engine Settings to turn on the render distance thing. I lost 500 pop.

Second time, MC closed when i was attempting to pay my CW taxes. Lost even more pop.

Is there something about those little pop-up windows?

Also, what "save" settings do people use? After the autumn when my files kept getting corrupted from "auto save," I turned that off and only back up to my HD when I remember (not often, admittedly). Any advice?
5y
#2
Follow up. It literally just happened again. I turned on "auto save" and was like "la de da" and then I had to do payroll, and i said i'd pay, cuz i'm not a douchebag. And it closed MC again. Not even joking.

One thing I did notice was, oddly, the border around the window to pay the taxes and the payroll was slightly thicker. Not sure if that has ANYTHING to do with it. But that's 3 times in one night. And until it's figured out, I'm not sure i want to play :(
5y
#3
tinypixie said:Follow up. It literally just happened again. I turned on "auto save" and was like "la de da" and then I had to do payroll, and i said i'd pay, cuz i'm not a douchebag. And it closed MC again. Not even joking.

One thing I did notice was, oddly, the border around the window to pay the taxes and the payroll was slightly thicker. Not sure if that has ANYTHING to do with it. But that's 3 times in one night. And until it's figured out, I'm not sure i want to play :(


Which platform are you playing on? Is this Android or Windows 10 (windows store)? I ask because it sounds like the problem is happening when a popup menu is displayed, and those are the two platforms that render native system-widget dialog menus instead of HTML based menus.
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5y
#4
Thanks for reply. Windows 10.
5y
#5
tinypixie said:Thanks for reply. Windows 10.


Thanks. Would you mind giving me the general specs of your PC? I have seen other users have crashes on the native system menus and am still trying to determine why it is happening.
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5y
#6
Asus laptop:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
2.40 GHZ
Installed Ram: 6.00GB

On board graphics card.

Win 10 Home version 1803
5y
#7
you could try turning on autobudget in your policies
I know it helped some ppl sort the problem with crashing on the popup window for payroll since it skips that window completely.
5y
#8
@tinypixie I have played around with the content dialog code on the Win10 store edition of My Colony and may have found a solution. I am releasing a patch (0.83.1) this afternoon which should hopefully go live in a day or two (depending on Microsoft store approval times). Let me know when you get it if it helps or not so I can determine if there is more work to be done.
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5y
#9
Of course!!! I really appreciate your swift attention to the matter.
5y
#10
How do you do autobudget?
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