Age of Wonders 4 - PC Hotfix - 04/05/2023

[HeyTiko]

Age of Wonders 4 - PC Hotfix - 04/05/2023​

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To my fellow Godir,

First off, we want to thank you for the awesome release! It’s been amazing seeing so many of you finally getting your hands on the game. Many of you have been able to enjoy the game as we intended but there have been difficulties along the way.

Over the past few days we’ve been hard at work to address the most common issues that have popped up. The people on the Hotfix branch have been incredibly helpful in tracking down the Graphics Driver issues and we’re now confident in rolling out the fixes at large.

For users with the NVIDIA Graphics cards defined below, that have experienced frequent crashes, we have added a Driver Workaround setting. This setting will be automatically enabled for the affected users and should alleviate the most commonly experienced crashes.

May your Pantheons Thrive

Game Version: 1.002.003.78130

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Graphics

• Added Driver Workaround in Settings
  • This setting has been live on the Steam Hotfix branch already
  • This setting is not localized/translated
  • This setting is default enabled on the following GPU’s:
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
    • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

General

• Disabled the DLC Tab in the Paradox Launcher
• Included additional .dll files for Game Launch failures
• Fixed several issues causing Game Launch failures
• Fixed a crash that could occur on loading saves
• Fixed a Combat/Animation Crash that could occur on Combat End
• Fixed Duplicate Rulers being chosen on the Fields of Rebirth
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the AI Behaviour
• Fixed a crash that could occur during the Age of Shadows Spell
• Updated the “Contact Us” url in the Crash Reporter
• Fixed a crash that could occur when losing connection in the World Setup screen
• Fixed a crash that could occur when no valid position was found for a Quest Stack
• Fixed a crash that could occur in Tutorials due to two popups opening simultaneously
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Objective Complete animation of the Tutorials
• Fixed a crash that could occur when invalid units were still being moved
• Fixed a crash that could occur due to the Outpost icon being readded to the World Map after turning into a City
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Heroes Overview when the captor of a Hero is a Vassalised Ruler
• Fixed a crash that could occur in the Build Province Improvement Quest
• Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing “Player has won/lost a Battle” events in Multiplayer
• Fixed a common crash that could occur when viewing Tooltips

Interface

• Disabled “Generate Random Rulers” in Multiplayer due to Out of Syncs
• Fixed Last Name not accepting spaces
• Fixed Last Name reassigning a Last Name if left empty
• Fixed Lock Mouse setting not locking the mouse cursor to the screen
• Fixed the World UI appearing in Combat when the Pause Menu was opened at specific moments or after accessing the Keybindings Menu
• Fixed Tomes not being able to be chosen through the Tome Library when using Controller
• Fixed a issues with non-Latin Languages and opening Tooltips in Tooltips

Units

• Fixed Knight Model being broken for several Forms when combined with the Unicorn Mount Form Trait
• Fixed Spellbreaker Casting Animations being broken when combined with the Unicorn Mount Form Trait
• Fixed Node Defenders not being able to upgrade in certain situations

Steam

• Increased Save File limit per Session to 50

GoG

• Fixed Potential Save Game issues with Foreign Characters in the PC Name
• Fixed Achievements unlocking incorrectly

Epic

• Fixed Save Games not being able to be deleted
• Fixed Save Games unable to be made after approx 70 min of continuous play

• Epic Games Version crash occurring on Launch/during the initial Loading Screen
• Poor performance on Xbox Series X
• Non-Functional Safe Area Ratio Slider
• AI Behaviour causing “Opponents are Moving” hang
• Custom Titles reset in the finalize screen when editing a Custom Faction
• Province with Underground Water cannot construct Special Province Improvements

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[Triumph Jordi]

Epic Games Version crash occurring on Launch/during the initial Loading Screen


Epic Games Version crash occurring on Launch/during the initial Loading Screen

the problem is the same, nothing has changed

That is correct, it's listed under the Known Issues as we're still investigating it.

I cannot reach the settings because the game crashes during startup. What key can I add to PlatformSettings0.cfg to wire it in? Unfortunately, the default created config file does not seem to contain the key.

If your driver crashes before being able to get to the settings it might be worth to go to your Documents\Paradox Interactive\Age of Wonders 4\Config folder and changing the "Video.DriverWorkaround" from false to true manually in the PlatformSettings0.cfg.

 

[jakeowaty]

Hey everyone!

We understand your concerns and rest assured they are being a very active subject of conversation.

If you want to help report and register issues, visit Bug Reports Forum where you can post your feedback and issues so that our QA teams can address and assist you with whatever problem you might have!

 

[Triumph Jordi]

I mean my game and my profile went to hell?

Hey TheSharingan, did you purchase the game on Steam or on Epic? This is a general "Failed to Load" error which doesn't give a lot of information.

 

[Triumph Jordi]

when i try to launch i am supposed to have my saved , and it is being recognized by the launcher but when i log in it gives me load errorView attachment 976981

Alright that explains the error. The launcher keeps a reference to the last played save which is no longer accessible. As BitMaster mentioned we've pushed a update (version 78192) due to continued issues on the Epic version of the game. In this update we've temporarily disabled Cloud Saves, which means that the cloud saves are inaccessible and saves will be made Local only.

We understand that this is a incredibly frustrating situation but we deemed this the best solution to get you guys playing in the short term. A long term fix is still being worked on but this should allow you to enjoy the game over the weekend. We are really sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

 

[Triumph Jordi]

I mean, I have to start from 0 again and I just lost the 20 game hours that I had saved ...... nice, they should have at least given us the chance to get our saves out of the cloud so that it was local save ......

Epic Cloud Saves are encrypted, there is no method to retrieve or use them outside of the Cloud System. The fact that you were able to play is quite impressive as almost all our users reached the point where they'd crash on starting the game.