Trade Deals freezing input

[aradapilot]

When I select "Trade Deals" no window pops up, and all key controls freeze. Mouse still moves, but no input is accepted. If the ship's in autopilot it'll continue - the game itself stays running, but nothing else can be done. Thought it might be slow so I left it in that state while I ran out for a couple hours, it was still there not loaded when I came back.
This happens with no mods installed, except the two DLCs. It happens 100% of the time, not sporadically.
I have a trade agent on every station in Albion and most in DeVries, none in other systems yet.

[aradapilot]

I can't save during this (grayed out), but I can load - and loading a save is the only way to continue.
Game is up to date, version 4.10 (232953)

[Lupo]

If you could use dropbox/google docs etc... and link here a copy of your savegame I could have a look and if necessary make a bug report in the official forums for the Devs to have a look at it.

Many thanks in advance.

[Lupo]

There is a report of the same issue in the official forums already, link:

https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=396754

As a work around "alt-tab" and "back" will unfreeze the UI.

[rainer]

Originally posted by Lupo:

There is a report of the same issue in the official forums already, link:

https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=396754

As a work around "alt-tab" and "back" will unfreeze the UI.

But only temporarily. Better go back to an earlier save and avoid the action leading to that situation. In my case it was ordering a ship to transfer drones "from" another ship.

Did you do the same? In that case the situation might straighten out once the drones have been transferred.

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Rainer

[Lupo]

As an update the issue has been found and will be included in the next patch.

[aradapilot]

Confirmed that it's only when ships are transferring drones, once all are idle it works again.
It seems like the list of ships to select for deals is populated based on which have cargo drones, so it's probably related to that