Same thing happening to me, I can still hear the music, interact with the buttons, they do what they should do but I can't see it, I have to quick save, alt-f4 and reload the game to continue and this can happen plenty of times in a row.

I can add my own experience of exactly this bug. AMD gfx card and processor. Game otherwise works fine.

An observation I can make is that the UI panels and transitioning between them reminds me of a game overlay. That "enhancement" are a source of bugs in some games.

There are threads on this going back to early access on Steam, and considering it's essentially a crash-bug I'm really disappointed the devs don't appear to have fixed it yet.

Just experienced it (regarding the Election 'next stage' complete freeze) twice in an hour, unmodded game with Vaulters and bonus DLC.

I really hope they give it some attention and get it fixed.

This is pretty much the only bug/problem I have (or notice) in the game, and it happens every time I play the game, often two or three times in a session of several hours.  The majority of instances for me have to do with elections and clicking "Next step" (esp. but not limited to clicking "Next step" twice quickly before the screen showing individual systems' results finishes its ponderous animation), or with opening the political UI, though I do recall at least one instance of clicking "Inspect" from a hero's level up notification.  Only option is to kill the game with fire and start from the last autosave.  Very good thing that the game autosaves every turn (unless I thought to do that when I first got it).  Windows 10, AMD card, latest drivers, file integrity checked.  I've been tolerating it until this last instance a few minutes back where I finally said, "Surely someone else is having this problem and there's something more that could be done."...  This last one was when I tried to open the politics/population screen, intending to change laws.  If I didn't know better I'd assume it's a feature intended to help really make the political experience fully immersive...

I have noticed a correlation to selecting the political, and economic pages if I had already ended my turn and the end turn was processing.  I have also seen it during elections if lots of other events also occured at the same time.  I will try to upload a save file the next time it happens.

Same here, seems the devs don't have enough information about it or don't know how to fix it.

Me and my friend started getting it again, very frequently, after this last patch.

Still getting this a lot in the latest version.I cant be the only one.

Happens to me too. Random ui transition freeze.

Even after restarting or reload a save, my "no-bug" and "no-freeze" time isn't more than one turn.

It look trigered when switching in some screens (management system, politics, or anything else).

I have had this since release and it's still happening.The UI will just freeze when transitioning between UI panels.I have to restart a lot and I know other people have this issue too.

Don't know if you guys are still playing, but it seems that it's a directX bug that you can paste "force-opengl" into the  initialization options box in Steam's game properties to fix it.

Maingsk wrote:

Don't know if you guys are still playing, but it seems that it's a directX bug that you can paste "force-opengl" into the  initialization options box in Steam's game properties to fix it.

I tried that but still doesn't work. It's a shame this bug is still alive. Just when I started liking the game. 

The bug is not solved..........

the game is unplayable. I can't finish my turn it happens every time after I close and reload the game... :(

I’m playing as Hissho and my colonies randomly decolonize for no reason whatsoever. It's very annoying right now. I’m playing Vaulters and I'm seeing if it'll do the same. Maybe I'm just crazy and maybe since my colonies are not happy because I don't constantly go to war and Keii they decolonize, but I don't know. I'm new to the game (great game), but it's like I said very annoying when that happens.

King_Fisher wrote:

I’m playing as Hissho and my colonies randomly decolonize for no reason whatsoever. It's very annoying right now. I’m playing Vaulters and I'm seeing if it'll do the same. Maybe I'm just crazy and maybe since my colonies are not happy because I don't constantly go to war and Keii they decolonize, but I don't know. I'm new to the game (great game), but it's like I said very annoying when that happens.

Pretty sure you yourself are the source for decolonization. You have an option to choose evacuate in systems production queue, what you should avoid to queue up. Else your system gets evacuated and you get a colony ship same place. By the way, you can't evacuate systems, as long as you don't have 100% ownership.

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