This is the place for collecting problems and bugs to get them solved.
The importance describes the fail level of the issue:
- 3: Game is still playable with the problem or is not reproducible (Autopilot issues, Graphics problem, small performance issue, writing error, ...)
- 2: Workaround is possible or can be ignored (Ai autopilot + Station goes boom)
- 1: Crash, Plot-Stopper, no workaround, "core meltdown" (Crash)
General User Interface
| Short title | Game Version | Description / Reproducing steps / Discussion link | Importance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mouse disabled in main menu | While pressing a key on the keyboard and you hit esc to go to the main menu you can't use the mouse to make a selection. Only arrow keys work. | 3 | |
| Opening the map teleports you | Seems to be that sometimes going through a gate and immediately initially travel mode and switching to the map breaks you. You're teleported back to the original system you jumped from, instead of the map you get a glitch screen, and any future jumps cause you to teleport back once you open you map again. You can't get out of this state unless you reload your save. | 2 | |
| Landing a ship in third person mode | I cant land a ship in third person mode. Thats cause the landing support visual isnt displayed (red dot turns green). If i enter first person mode, it instantly succedes. https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=402712 (temporary solution is get a docking computer 2 which does seem to work in third person.) | 3 | |
| Crewman stats are improperly displayed | Attempt to hire a crewman on a station, only Engineering and Morale are displayed. | 3 |
Graphics
| Short title | Game Version | Description / Reproducing steps / Discussion link | Importance |
|---|---|---|---|
In map mode Legend list is Glitching | Open Game --> Map --> Legend (right side on the map view, little "location" symbol) When i move the list up and down, there are some graphic glitches. I still works (i hope, got no other problems), but is a graphical bug.
| 3 | |
| Ultra widescreen/Tutorial does not work | When using a Widescreen format 5760x1080 (5900x1080) the tutorial (H) does not display though the screen changes. It just does not display the menu. Other menu's are ripped or lost in the bezel of triple monitor setups with bezel correction (the 5900x1080); It just ins't optimized yet. There is no menu scaling option or FOV option available to correct for the widescreen. | 3 | |
| Graphics changes can cause UI and HUD hangups | 1.0 | While changing from full screen to windowed mode while exiting a highway, upon reconnecting with game, the HUD is now locked in saying my speed is 972m/s (just what i happened to be going at the time, not significant) even when sitting still. The Map menu will incorrectly display menus and sometimes will even show option which are not named but available to click. Changing to a different ship; the other ship's speed readout works fine however upon changing back the speed readout is locked still. The map menu problem persist to other ships however. Performing a restart seems to remedy. also garbled Text of the size and font as those seen in the Map Menu when selecting a station will appear near or over text menu's and hinder game play. | 3 |
Artifical Intelligence & Life
| Short title | Game Version | Description / Reproducing steps / Discussion link | Importance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilots/autopilot glitch | After purchasing ship [smallest courier] and pilot at argon prime wharf, send pilot to Silicon Refinery to buy wafers. While on board with pilot to watch, the pilot flies into the station and then glitches inside station through the hit box and cannot get out. Same thing with the teladi trading station in Grand Exchange IV. Other AI ships are also getting stuck. | (annoying) | |
| Passenger Stuck Outside Ship | After completing a passenger mission, after the passenger got off, it got stuck to the end of the ladder and has been stuck even while in space. | (annoying) | |
| Blackmarket 1st mission | After taking the mission, the bar disappears from any and all transporters, so the goods can't be purchased or delivered. | (mission breaking) |
Other issues
| Short title | Game Version | Description / Reproducing steps / Discussion link | Importance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncontrollable ship after loading a save. | When loading the game while the player is seated in the pilot chair, controls might not work. Workaround is to stand up and sit down again. | 2 | |
| Highways - Gate issue | Traveling through some highways may "teleport" you to another end of the universe. More information required / see in forum. | 2 | |
| Repairing data leaks destroys them | Occasionally for random reasons while you repair data leaks they all of a sudden get "destroyed" mid-repair process. | 3 | |
| Yaw and Roll currently not customizable on X-52 Pro H.O.T.A.S. (and possibly other H.O.T.A.S setups) | Yaw is always Z axis and Roll is always X axis on the X-52 Pro H.O.T.A.S. When the settings are changed, in control options, they either do nothing or are combined with the factory settings. This means that if you want to twist the flight stick left (Z axis -) to turn left, the ship will always roll left regardless of your settings being programmed to turn. Additionally, if you want to tilt your flight stick left to roll the ship left, which makes a whole lot of sense, the ship will always turn left. There is currently no way to undo this setting. If you try to set the digital functions for "Z axis -" to be turn left and "Z axis +" to be turn right, then set "X axis -" to roll left and "X axis +" to roll right, the ship will combine the settings together on you even though the analog controls are unmapped after doing this. For example, you twist the flight stick left and the ship both turns and rolls left simultaneously. Leaning the stick left also has the same exact effect. I have spent several hours trying to remedy this and have been unable to find a fix. | 2 | |
Game hangs on autosave | please advise techie_man123@yahoo.com where are the friggen patches dudes!@!!! | ||
| Data leak repairs lead to mission failure | 1.10 | After accepting data leak repair mission from Teladi Trading Guild, in this case "Maintain Satellite Network", I successfully repair the data leak "Debris Object" and subsequently fail the mission since 'the object' was destroyed. I assume this is related to the object being linked to the mission and, since its debris, it being removed upon reaching 100% health. | 1 (mission breaking) |
| Trade item 'delivery missions' cannot be completed | 1.10 | Reproducibly, upon approaching the station where a trade item ought to be delivered to, the mission fails as "the contact was killed". - Incorrect spawning of contact, maybe? | 1 (mission breaking) |
| Ship layout preset doesn't save the crew changes. | 1.10 | Create a new layout, save it and then add crew and save again. Then switch to other preset and change back to your custom preset. The crew will not be mentioned in the layout. This is probably a bug. |
Declined (No bug of X4)
- X4 + OBS Capture / Stream issue: https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=402317
OBS (open broadcast software) is not able to capture X4 in Game Mode. Thats an issue of OBS / Vulcan API, not X4 itself.
Developer Response from OBS:
https://i.imgur.com/nnPcuda.png
"Vulcan games can be counted with one hand and so there was no priority to implement game capture for it (beside that it's difficult to do)"
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