Dragging USI into split screen causes the game to not respond. | Unnamed Space Idle | Page 1

sour cobalt Jun 24, 2025, 10:55 PM

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When trying to resize the game by dragging into split screen (half screen one thing, half screen second thing), it causes the game to not respond.

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 10:57 PM

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osmething weird happens on stuff like this but no idea what >< Ill see if this in sepcific blows upf ro me too

minor eagle Jun 24, 2025, 11:13 PM

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Same happening to me just locks up completly

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 11:17 PM

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did it do this pre update at all or no?

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:24 PM

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@rapid frigate I can confirm my game immediatly crashed upon dragging the top bar just now.

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 11:25 PM

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any idea if new to this patch?

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:25 PM

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Ya, it's new, i've accidently clicked/dragged the top bar before,

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oop second time didn't crash

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trying 3 more times XD

minor eagle Jun 24, 2025, 11:26 PM

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Yes it was not happening before. I play the game while playing others on my PC and always drag to other screen. Everytime i have tried after patch it crashes. have verified files and restarted PC.

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Has crashed about 12 times just leaving where it starts fine. try to move or resize crach

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:28 PM

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I cannot reproduce the crash a second time after 5 reboots

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Soooo idk, thatas weird lol

minor eagle Jun 24, 2025, 11:28 PM

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it used to lag a little sometime when moved before update but never crashed

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might reboot again but my GTX4090 and 120gb Ram should be enough to run this 😆

sour cobalt Jun 24, 2025, 11:32 PM

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Dragging around in similar aspect ratio is generally fine.
The main issue is dragging into split screen.

And this issue is indeed new.

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 11:33 PM

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man, 0 things changed that would like obviously effect this bah

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:38 PM

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It goes that white not responding screen for 40 seconds then started working fine again for me twice, it’s like… rng reproducible for me

sour cobalt Jun 24, 2025, 11:39 PM

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Perhaps some new icons or something. I don't know.

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:39 PM

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If I just let it sit there instead of closing

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 11:39 PM

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I was able to get it to do that too, so trying to figure out issue

gilded glade Jun 24, 2025, 11:40 PM

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I also managed to blue screen my computer on like the 40th attempt, sooo

Rebooted fine tho lol, shrug

thin mauve Jun 24, 2025, 11:42 PM

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having the same issue

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never happened before todays update, not doing anything new on my pc either

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even the apps open are the same

minor eagle Jun 24, 2025, 11:42 PM

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full shut down of PC and restart. still crashing

rapid frigate Jun 24, 2025, 11:52 PM

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workin on it, jus tno move them for now ><

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except it wont work at all reliably for me blah

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 12:16 AM

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do you guys have a video or other audio playing when this happens?

gilded glade Jun 25, 2025, 12:24 AM

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youtube on chrome for me

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 12:25 AM

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if you close that does it not do it any more?

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and then if it does what screen in game are you on?

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so far I can get it to do it for me if I have a video playing sometimes ><

gilded glade Jun 25, 2025, 12:26 AM

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Same :/

abstract tapir Jun 25, 2025, 12:36 AM

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just tested with no other windows at all and still crashed. On fleet upgrade window.

gilded glade Jun 25, 2025, 12:47 AM

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Swapped to fleet upgrade window (after having had game open for 20 minutes) tried to drag to left screen then immediatly got the white 'not responding' overlay coller thing,
Rebooted and can't reproduce

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 12:47 AM

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ok so a galaxy open on upgrades?

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let me try

abstract tapir Jun 25, 2025, 12:57 AM

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just for another data point i restarted my machine and was able to re create the issue. This time i was just on the CORE page

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 2:34 AM

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For anyone with this issue, can you try these settings and see if still hapens:
Display:
Turn off Show Explosions and Use Barrier Shader
Turn on No Shadows/Lighting
Or if you already hav e it se tthat way and it still does this let me know

abstract tapir Jun 25, 2025, 2:58 AM

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just tried it with these settings and am still crashing when moving the window.

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 2:58 AM

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ok thanks for confirmation!

smoky hollow Jun 25, 2025, 6:11 AM

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I came here to report the same. Here's some more info @rapid frigate - I suspect it might be something to do with scaling vertically/horizontally, and maybe setting/storing some value therein.
I have two screens (very wide screen monitor and a 15" laptop screen).
The game starts full screen on wide monitor with border. If i double click on border, the size reduces. Double clicking again to maximize, goes full screen again. Doing this back and forth is no problem.
Now, if i reduce the size such that it has horizontal black edges above and below the display (pic 1), and move it around to other screen, it is fine. It will rescale properly on the smaller 15" laptop screen.
BUT, if i reduce the size such that it has vertical black edges left and right of the display, and move it over to the smaller screen, then the game blows up when trying to rescale.

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This pic below blows up when I move to smaller screen and double-click on border to go full screen.

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It happens on going from bigger screen to smaller screen only for me. When I repeat the above, while going from smaller laptop screen to a wider bigger screen, no issues (regardless of horizontal or vertical black bars).

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 6:16 AM

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your certain its that specific?

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I have no idea why its happening still but if its that specifically recreatable thats something at least

smoky hollow Jun 25, 2025, 6:21 AM

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that's the only change that' i am doing and i am able to reliably make the game stop responding doing the above. i haven't touched any of the game display settings as you can see above in the screen shot.
It doesn't matter what tab i am on either. core page or settings page or fleet.

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i made the game look like pic 1. and did the fullscreen/non-fullscreen (double clicking on the border), multiple times-- on both screen, as well as moving it back and forth. No issues.
I made the game look like pic 2, and repeated the process on the bigger screen. no issues. repeated it on smaller screen and it stops responding. consistently.

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It would be great if someone else can reproduce it as well in the manner above. That way, it will rule out my game settings, video driver cards etc...

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 6:26 AM

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ok so vertical bars -> smamler screen -> crash

near pond Jun 25, 2025, 8:00 AM

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rapid frigate your *certain* its that specific?

am having this very specific problem when resizing to a smaller window on a 4k res screen

TLDR; use the 4k for work and 1080p for games while working. USI moved back to the 4k monitor automatically when swapping back and attempting to resize it at all causes a crash. Tried restarting and everything, same problem.

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I was able to resize it without a crash one or twice but when I moved it to the other screen it stopped responding, now it's just consistently when I resize the window at all from fullscreen

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attempting to play with the display settings just straight up causes the crash too - likely because it tries to resize itself

waxen dawn Jun 25, 2025, 8:05 AM

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have the same issue, im not sure if someone mentioned but it also crashes when moving from 1 screen to another - not reliably, but sometimes it happens

near pond Jun 25, 2025, 8:11 AM

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OK I found a work around

I went into display settings and hit "Reset window size"

it seems to have saved that setting so it put the game back into windowed mode, and I was able to move it again.

Seems to wig out if you maximise the window and try to change it after

brittle bough Jun 25, 2025, 6:19 PM

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Was about to report this same issue mine is 1440p to 1080p monitor

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 9:09 PM

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OK, I have two test versions you guys can try. try 1 first and if it still crashes try 2.

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you can just unzip these into a folder and run it, no need to put it in steam folder this is the stand alone build

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📎 SpaceIdleResizeTest2.zip 📎 SpaceIdleResizeTest1.zip

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@sour cobalt @minor eagle @smoky hollow @near pond Let me know if either of the above resolves the issue for you

sour cobalt Jun 25, 2025, 9:24 PM

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@rapid frigate 2 worked for me

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 9:25 PM

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and 1 still crashed?

sour cobalt Jun 25, 2025, 9:25 PM

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yeah

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 9:25 PM

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ok, on 2 was it "fast" to resize? or did it pause a bit

sour cobalt Jun 25, 2025, 9:25 PM

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It took around 1-2s

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 9:26 PM

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hmmm, still bad, but not crash bad

sour cobalt Jun 25, 2025, 9:27 PM

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yeah

obsidian sorrel Jun 25, 2025, 11:42 PM

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Just got directed to this thread - I'm having issues with the game crashing upon any attempt to resize it after the update. No issues with moving the window around though.

The game has also always launched too big for my screen, so not being able to resize it is cutting quite a bit off the bottom (an entire core row, second overdrived reactor charge).

gilded glade Jun 25, 2025, 11:44 PM

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Maybe you can try one of the things above sylv sent and see if it works for you if you would like.

obsidian sorrel Jun 25, 2025, 11:45 PM

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I've tried the various settings now, haven't worked. I'll look at the resize test files

rapid frigate Jun 25, 2025, 11:49 PM

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#1 seems unlikely but I think #2 should cure the issue for most, let me know

obsidian sorrel Jun 25, 2025, 11:49 PM

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1 worked for like a second after resizing and then died

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I'll try 2

brittle bough Jun 26, 2025, 12:21 AM

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2 worked for me same slight hitch one resizing but no crash.

rapid frigate Jun 26, 2025, 12:30 AM

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great

rapid frigate Jun 26, 2025, 2:01 AM

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fixed next patch hopefullyy

obsidian sorrel Jun 26, 2025, 2:39 AM

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2 is working well for me! ty

rapid frigate Jun 26, 2025, 2:51 AM

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live patch has that fix too

minor eagle Jun 26, 2025, 8:02 AM

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Yay Fixed i can minimize and move my game again. Thank you

obsidian sorrel Jun 26, 2025, 5:17 PM

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I've noticed after the update while resizing - my second row overdrive reactor charge speed upgrades are always cutoff, sometimes completely so I can't manually upgrade them.

rapid frigate Jun 26, 2025, 6:48 PM

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are you using a font size setting?

#Dragging USI into split screen causes the game to not respond.