Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

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Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

November 21, 2009, 09:46:04 pm

I've just come across a strange phenomenon.

I decided to start a new PAK64 game. When I loaded the game I found that the buildings remained hidden. Nothing would make them appear beyond the construction (red square) stage) except, the 'Townhall' and other 'main' buildings' would show the little coloured 'flag' when 'ctrl "' was pressed.

After an hour of combing through the various menu's I was contemplating putting in a bug report. Then I had a thought, "Could my PAK128 game be causing the problem?" I loaded up PAK128 and sure enough the buildings were hidden, I clicked 'ctrl "' and the buildings were revealed. I went back to PAK64 and lo and behold the buildings were ok.

Any ideas, Anyone?

Re: Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

Reply #1 – November 21, 2009, 09:57:50 pm

I encountered something similar, too. In my case, the fix was simple

Was the game paused?

(I had to spend some minutes on that one, though!)

Re: Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

Reply #2 – November 21, 2009, 10:05:22 pm

Quote from: VS – on November 21, 2009, 09:57:50 pm

I encountered something similar, too. In my case, the fix was simple Was the game paused?

(I had to spend some minutes on that one, though!)

I'm not sure about that, but I'll check it out.

It gets stranger. I can not now duplicate the effect. It doesn't matter if I load PAK128, hide the buildings and pause it, or not, when I close the game and open PAK64 the buildings are hidden but 'ctrl "' works fine.

Correction to the above. It would appear to happen if the PAK128 is not paused. Then again it may be a random thing because it just happened again.

Re: Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

Reply #3 – November 22, 2009, 06:43:45 pm

Maybe try the 102-2-1 releqase candiate ... it may work better.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/simutrans/rc102-2-1/simuwin-sdl-rc102-2-1.zip/download

Re: Bug or Not a Bug aye there's the rub.

Reply #4 – November 22, 2009, 08:08:49 pm

Quote from: prissi – on November 22, 2009, 06:43:45 pm

Maybe try the 102-2-1 releqase candiate ... it may work better.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/simutrans/rc102-2-1/simuwin-sdl-rc102-2-1.zip/download

Sorry Prissi, I should have said that I'm using RC r2864 with PAK Files 757 for PAK128 and PAK Files 231 for PAK64.

incidentally, off topic, If you look at my latest PAK128 download you will see that I have commented that it is working great. The only 'freeze' occurs when it Auto Saves.