Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares Forum

Here is a list of "bugs" I encountered while playing MoO2, although none of them prevent me from playing the game.

• When prompted to enter a name, say for a planet, the game will become unresponsive. Both mouse and keyboard will seem to stop responding, but by repeatedly pressing Enter or moving the mouse and clicking the continue button, you can get past the prompt.
  What seems to happen, is that the game will freeze for a period of time, then quickly respond, then freeze again. Right before the game responds, it will begin to record any mouse and keyboard prompts: this means that even if you wildly move the mouse around, only half a second of mouse movement is recorded and then shown. This does make colonizing planets a bit tedious.

• When text flashes or is highlighted, the game seems to slow down, a lot. This occurs when selecting things to build on your planet, choosing research, and especially when custom building your ships. I'm not sure if its a Direct X 2 issue (installed it with game, is included on cd) or a crossover issue.

Everything else seems to be stable. I have yet to see if the Plasma Cannon / Gauss Cannon will shutdown the game like they did on Windows XP when I custom built my ships. If I find more issues I'll post them here.

I didn't seem to experience any temporary freezing. Text flashing or highlighting does not noticeably slow the game down. I think that is more of a function of what hardware you are running it on. I haven't played the game out to see if the known WinXP errors will still manifest.

This is version 7.2.2

I experienced some places where the mouse would go unresponsive, but not the keyboard. In particular, the initial screens where you setup the game, including naming your civilization would be problematic.

If you move the mouse and wait, it would eventually move, but it was difficult to get the mouse to the right spot.

Just use the keyboard to get through it.

Yes I did see that. It usually happens around certain dialogs like choosing a flag or picking a ship to refit. One work around is to right click which will bring up a help type window then your mouse position will update much faster so it's actually usable. You can then position your mouse where you want it and then you can click twice to clear the help dialog and then click on the selection you were trying to click.

With the 12.0.0 Beta, the speed of this game is much better. I only saw a slight lag on the initial screens as described above.