khalv

So, i've been having massive problems in general with the game causing the computer to freeze up entirely when running the designer, or sometimes during battle - this happens 4 out of 5 times running the game. This time, i was just loading up a campaign which i was a few hours in, and the subsequent turn i had a battle encounter which i started. Immediately upon entering the battle, the computer froze up again (screen turns black, fans start spinning up) and i had to force a reboot. Next time i loaded into the game, the "continue campaign" button was greyed out. The serious part is that after the first reboot, i was having issues starting up the computer again. The boot screen looked different, just black with a spinner. After the third attempt at rebooting, it said that my windows install was damaged and needed repair, though it also had an option to attempt another restart, which i did. This time it booted successfully. I'm not sure if i dare to play the game anymore if it is going to keep doing this! My suspicion is that the freeze has something to do with asset loading, as if the game survives the initial 5 minutes of launcing the designer/battle, it will keep running fine indefinitely. Maybe there's some async race condition, or the game is trying to access unloaded/invalid data. I know that GPU hangs can also cause similar issues. Either way, please fix this ASAP or this game will remain unplayable for me. I'm running on a Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM, and a GTX 1060 GPU. I never have any similar issues in other games.

I'm having this issue too, the screen just turns black and i hear the fans spinning up to max. I have to hard reboot the computer at that point. It happens especially right after opening the ship designer, but sometimes at any other point while designing. It's super frustrating, not only because you lose your design, but also because you have to sit and wait for the launcher to realize you're not longer playing after rebooting before you can play again. This has really turned me off playing the game, since sometimes you have stuff open on the computer (browser tabs etc) that you don't want to lose from a forced reboot. Really wish they'd fix this.

I think the maximum amount of bulkhead subdivisions on torpedo boats needs to be reduced. There's no way these glorified shoeboxes could fit 10x3 bulkhead subdivisions in them. Coupled with the fact that they're hard to hit to begin with, this is making TBs ludicrously survivable - more so than cruisers even - and this causes battles to drag out. Instead make it so that they get maybe 5x2 subdivisions when bulkheads are set to "max".

I have the same issue. I played through a full campaign without issues, but then i tried doing a custom battle with Japan vs UK, and after about 10 minutes of battle my monitor turned black and the fans started spinning up, i had to hard reboot. Then i tried again, with France vs Germany, and the same happened, except already in the designer. Now i can barely open the designer before my computer hangs. I have a GTX 1060 GPU and a Ryzen 1700x CPU.