Distant Worlds 2 - Latest Update (1.0.3.7)

A new update of Distant Worlds 2 (1.0.3.7) has been released, here's what's new:

CRASH FIXES

• reduced likelihood of hangs before autosaving
• added fix for rare memory corruption when animating space creatures
• fixed crash when adding diplomatic incident
• fixed crash when updating ship engine exhaust
• fixed crash when calculating ship collision avoidance
• fixed crash when resolving character mission location description
• fixed crash when drawing troop summary
• fixed crash when determining resource prices
• fixed crash when determining fleet systems within engagement range
• fixed crash when evaluating threats to ship or base
• fixed crash when fixing ships in a location
• fixed crash when updating location for fighters onboard a carrier
• fixed crash when rendering message
• fixed crash when firing weapons
• fixed crash when rendering character traits
• fixed crash when determining retrofit resources for a ship or base
• fixed crash when finding nearest refuelling point
• fixed crash when drawing empire relation in diplomacy screen
• fixed crash when determining empire mining targets
• fixed rare crash when loading some older savegames
• fixed crash when switching camera modes
• reworked some rendering to further minimize DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED crashes
• fixed crash when evaluating threats
• fixed crash when calculating location visibility level
• fixed crash when rendering research screen
• fixed crash when examining recent trade deals
• fixed crash when extracting resources
• fixed crash when identifying independent repair bases
• fixed crash when fulfilling resource orders
• fixed crash when sorting items while determining mining targets
• fixed crash when executing action
• fixed crash when calculating construction yard wait time
• fixed crash when identifying refuelling points
• fixed crash when rendering ship or base summary
• fixed crash when drawing construction yard summary
• fixed crash when updating ship engine exhaust
• fixed crash when preparing ship for retrofit
• fixed crash when changing ship empire
• fixed crash when obtaining fleet template designs per role
• fixed crash when auto-assigning scout mission to exploration ship
• fixed crash when launching assault pod
• fixed crash when updating user interface controls
• fixed crash when refreshing graphics setup
• fixed crash when checking whether ship is in battle
• fixed crash when checking for appearance of hive threat
• fixed crash when completing ship command
• fixed crash when planet removed in game editor
• fixed crash when calculating ship collision avoidance
• fixed crash when drawing system exploration data
• fixed crash when drawing system summary
• fixed crash when editing bonuses in game editor
• fixed crash when drawing research button
• fixed crash when updating tourism/migration/resource flow data
• fixed crash when adding diplomatic relation incident
• fixed crash when rendering creature effects
• fixed crash when rendering map overlay buttons
• fixed crash when reviewing army templates
• fixed crash when updating character bonuses
• fixed crash when processing ships and bases
• fixed crash when inflicting ion damage from nebula storms
• fixed crash when removing weapon blast from location
• fixed crash when ship unloads passengers
• fixed crash when generating new character
• fixed crash when building facility
• updated Harmony library to resolve some problems

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

• improved general performance, especially in very large games
• further adjustments to some map overlays to improve performance (long range scanners, exploration, diplomacy)
• added new default system badge mode (Basic) with smaller, simplified badges when zoomed out to galaxy level. Extended mode is same as previous Basic mode
• improved general performance relating to fleet operations
• fixed occasional hang when fleets bombard colonies
• fixed occasional performance 'stuttering'
• fixed ship movement sometimes being jerky when zoom into same location
• improved rendering performance for map overlays: exploration, diplomacy long range scanners

SYSTEM BADGES AND MAP OVERLAYS

• fixed clickable regions for new basic system badges
• ensure map buttons retain highlight state when apply changes to graphics settings
• altered map overlay buffer format (long range scanners, exploration, diplomacy) to improve overlay opacity and visibility

SAVEGAMES

• updated autosave timer logic to ensure save at specified intervals. Reminder that paused time does not count towards autosave interval
• now check for low disk space when saving game and send warning message if needed
• more graceful handling of savegame failures for whatever reason

OTHER CHANGES

• fixed slow initial zoom-in when start new game
• now purge old low-priority empire messages
• altered texture streaming memory budget to be more generous when no shared system memory allocated
• waypointing ships now properly slow to a stop while waiting for other fleet ships to arrive
• fixed bug when performing jump pathfinding
• fixed colony bombardment ship range when colony has long range defensive weapons (previously ships were too cautious to approach colony when tactics were Evade)
• updated values for planetary shield facilities
• data fixes to allow planetary destroyer to be built again
• fixed Load Fleet Template dialog to properly load from FleetTemplates sub-folder (same folder as Save Fleet Template)
• exploration and diplomacy map overlays now auto-enable when in relevant UI area
• long range scanner, exploration and diplomacy map overlays now more opaque
• The resource and credit discount on Planet Destroyer hulls has come to an end
• Ship hull fixes for certain freighters and transports
• Fixes to component data typos and some tweaks some of which affect the permissible slot sizes for certain late game weapons
• Additional story event fixes
• Fixes for some facility upgrade issues due to incorrect IDs in the facility data