halftea wrote:On the sound error, I remember what was happening there, I had just updated and tried to load the game, failed with a check fmod error. Was consistent in failure to load even after reboots, until the next patch updated. Then everything was fine. I didn't save a .dmp file for it, but it's happened before, usually a reboot will resolve it.
Hrm. It's possible that the disappearing fleet base is the result of failed "asset generation" pass -- specifically, if the updater crashed (probably due a memory issue) while generating the small red fleet base graphic, you *might* end up with the behaviour you're describing.
A clean reinstall of the game might fix it.
Alternative 2: You could trigger a complete asset rebuild by deleting:
Stars in Shadow\unpack_last.txt and
Stars in Shadow\version.txt and
Stars in Shadow\ArtCache
Then running update.exe. (Warning, this will take at least 30 minutes.)
Alternative 3: You could selectively rebuild the fleet base asset, by deleting unpack_last.txt, version.txt and ArtCache\Ships\HawkLargeStation, then running update.exe. (This will probably take more like 5 minutes.)
My hunch is that a selective rebuild (Alternative 3) is actually the most likely to fix the issue. But, doing a complete rebuild is more likely to generate interesting error output -- which could help me figure out how to avoid the issue reoccurring