(All written is translated into English using translate.google, so if something is not clear, then the translator is to blame for everything)
(My hardware: CPU AMD FX-4320, RAM 8Gb, GeForce 650 1Gb. 1920X1080)
I've been playing Evochron since the release of Evochron Mercenary.
Purchased Evochron Mercenary and Evochron Legacy.
Hello!
First of all, I want to thank you for the excellent space simulators that gave me many enjoyable hours of gaming. Evochron Legacy was the pinnacle of the series.
That the support and development of the game continues is commendable.
Before the release of Evochron Legacy SE, everything was fine, the game worked at high graphics settings with good fps at a resolution of 1920X1080. I flew about 200 hours in Evochron Legacy with almost no crashes or problems.
But with the release of the Evochron Legacy SE, problems began. True, I had already played a little, so I did not attach importance to periodic crashes at that time.
As time went on, the game improved more and more graphically.
Recently I decided to return to the game and found that I can’t play normally, as the system requirements have increased. Now you need a video card with at least 2gb of video memory. And so the game began to crash with an error. As it turned out, most likely the crashes occur, precisely because of the lack of video memory of the video card.
You can now forget about high graphics settings, otherwise it will crash with an error at the stage of loading the game world. At medium settings, 5-10 minutes of play and crash.
At the lowest 30-60 minutes or more, but sooner or later there will be a crash.
At the same time, it is the stars background that strongly affects the crash.
If you increase the quality of the star background to medium settings, then the crash will take place in 5-10 minutes, for example, when you try to land on a planet with an error:
(Error: vkCreateImage error: -2 in main.agc at line 215993) and (Uncaught exception: Image 18 cannot be used as a texture whilst it is currently being used with SetRenderToImage).
With high quality settings, the game will crash at the loading stage with the same error:
(Error: vkCreateImage error: -2 in main.agc at line 215993).
I could live with the low graphics settings and the rarer crashes, but starry backgrounds in low quality at a screen resolution of 1920x1080 are just disgusting (muddy daub), like you're in a bank, not in endless space.
If, as an option, forget about SE, and return to the evochron_legacyb10888.1 version, then everything will be fine at high without crashes. But saving from SE will not work, that is, 200+ hours down the drain, and you won’t be able to play in the incentive, and there will be no new game mechanics.
Of course, the Evochron Legacy SE is beautiful, but still far from advanced graphics to crash stupidly with a slight lack of video memory. This is a strange decision on your part, shifted to the shoulders of the users of the game.
In the end, to solve the issues of lack of video memory, there is RAM and swap memory. Yes, this will increase the texture loading time, which will affect the FPS, additional friezes may appear, but many games, even with a large lack of video memory, do not crash, but work.
The same Elite Dangerous: Horizons works and looks quite well, although 1gb is clearly not enough, and because of this, some textures do not have time to load and remain muddy for some time. Even Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, although not viable on my computer, but with terrible friezes and 5-15 fps with a very strong lack of video memory, it still works and does not crash for a long time.
I do not demand, but just want to be able to continue playing on my hardware.
I do not insist, but if it is possible, in future updates, optimize the game (textures) so that even with low game graphics settings, but with a high star background quality setting when playing with 1gb of video memory, the game works without crashes, as it was in evochron_legacyb10888.1 and earlier.
Or alternatively, you can post the settings, textures and effects of the level that was in evochron_legacyb10888.1 as a mod - this will allow you to play as before without crashes due to lack of video memory.
Sincerely! Chu!
