Engine Designer Demo - OFFICIAL BUGS THREAD

[Boosted23]

ah ok
didnt know how long it was out actually, just checked now since i had time to
updating slow but steady.

[morgoth]

I also got the problem of alt+tab crash

[bethels23]

I've been looking forward to this game, but I've really had a poor experience so far, still unable to play it.

First issue was that I can download the installer fine, but then the updater has no provision for carrying on where it left off, so if a large file drops out half way through, you need to start again. Had this happen 4 times before I could run it successfully.

Now it's installed, and I get this error:



Pretty frustrating/time consuming/bandwidth consuming experience so far.

[zeussy]

I've been looking forward to this game, but I've really had a poor experience so far, still unable to play it.

First issue was that I can download the installer fine, but then the updater has no provision for carrying on where it left off, so if a large file drops out half way through, you need to start again. Had this happen 4 times before I could run it successfully.

Now it's installed, and I get this error:



Pretty frustrating/time consuming/bandwidth consuming experience so far.

Hi bethels, sorry to hear that you are on of the few that are having issues. The downloads are all provided by the amazon cloud, so they are as fast, reliable and painless as we can make them. I hope your can understand that we are only 2 people at the core, and we are not a huge team with large resources. The launcher in it's various iterations has been in use for a year now, and the occurrence of issues like yours are low.

Anyway, all of this is just excuses, and doesn't help you with your problem. I am assuming that when you start the launcher, along it's title bar it states: "Automation Launcher B28 -- Automation Game Build: 86", you then press Play Demo and you get the exception error you posted. No Automation splash screen appears at all (rectangular box, styled like the website)?

Can you right click, properties on the Automation shortcut, and check it has been created properly, it should have the "Start in:" section set to the same path as "Target:" but without the "\Automation Launcher.exe". So it should look like the following:

Automation Shortcut.PNG (61.15 KiB) Viewed 4625 times

If that is not the issue, can you please run dxdiag (Windows Key + R, type in dxdiag, click on save all information) and send me the text file it generates to caswal@camshaftsoftware.com

[RevZ]

A friend of mine tried to replicate a 1.25L Ford Zetec-SE engine, but the Small engine's stroke doesn't go up far enough, and on Medium the bore doesn't go low enough.. Perhaps there should be a slight range adjustment? The figures for said engine are B71.9mm x S76.5mm ..

Just taking note of this, you don't HAVE to take action if you don't feel like it

[Daffyflyer]

^Yeah, we found that too, it also doesn't go large enough for some things - we're thinking of allowing a bit more range.

[mgBenny85]

Hey gents,

Kudos first off on a hell of an achievement. Seriously impressed.

Got a question for you. Just started playing yesterday on latest demo build (my serious apologies for not preordering yet, been between jobs for two months and just started a new one today. It's at the top of my list the second I can justify it) and am having an interesting issue. In all scenarios, all is well until I run my first test on the engine - at which point the whole thing starts spinning longitudinally around the crank, as though it wasn't hooked to the stand. This persists beyond the dyno run and back throughout whichever design tab I'm looking at. I can sometimes stop the spinning by right-clicking and adjusting perspective, but at best it will right itself and keep rocking back and forth.

Realize this is probably an unfortunate artifact of playing on a fairly inadequate computer (everything else is fairly slow as well, particularly dragging sliders) so I'm not sure if it's a BUG, per se, but thought if so, it was an interesting one. Happy to provide any data you'd like. Still having a great time geeking out to it, just a little less visually enjoyable when the game doesn't know whether I want to admire the valve cover or oil pan. Thanks much.

Benny

[Daffyflyer]

Ahh, yes that bug will be caused by it not being able to calculate the rotation of the engine in the stand (twisting under torque load) as its running at too few frames per second, so it is indeed an artifact of a slow PC

[bethels23]

Can you right click, properties on the Automation shortcut, and check it has been created properly, it should have the "Start in:" section set to the same path as "Target:" but without the "\Automation Launcher.exe". So it should look like the following:

Automation Shortcut.PNG

If that is not the issue, can you please run dxdiag (Windows Key + R, type in dxdiag, click on save all information) and send me the text file it generates to caswal@camshaftsoftware.com

Yes, that is created correctly... Will email you through the information now. Thanks.

I've got the game installed to D: instead of C:, if that's possibly causing any issues.

[MorzokMan]

Well.. i think its not the case because i have installed it on C: but have same error. Already sended report.

Btw.. if you try to run it in german, does it give same error? For me it wont run at all in german.

[xXRKellyXx1]

The Pretzel headers seem to be going inside my block a bit. Not a huge problem just letting you guys know since your both perfectionists

[Daffyflyer]

Ooh, could you grab a screenshot?

[Marcin]

Hello

Every time i wont start the game i have an error. My sysem is win 7 64-bit. 4Gb ram, NVIDIA GTX460.

Regards
Marcin

[autofrank]

A minor bug I noticed is sometimes I can't scroll all the text in a description box:

[haitch40]

Made an engine and clicked test engine then the program crashed.

Rare bug though as I havent had it before.