Buggy Mess

[RielleA.A.C.O.]

Respectfully WTF Frontier?! How are you this big of a studio and can't figure your games out? Do you not playtest or something? Okay, to the actual point of the discussion, two new bugs I discovered, one of which makes the game unplayable (though potentially only in franchise mode, not willing to test right now). Firstly I have the issue of the game constantly kinda "soft crashing" where it just suddenly wont take any inputs and I have to close it forcefully via the taskmanager, secondly habitats seemingly being unreachable specifically for animal deliveries, soo yeah...can't have a zoo without animals, can you? At this point I have to once again ask "What the f*ck" and will for now go back to zoo tycoon.

[SLG]

Have you verified the game;s files?

[RielleA.A.C.O.]

Originally posted by Lee:

Have you verified the game;s files?

Yes, I already have. More than once.

[nik_kiiii._]

I have the same problem,the game keeps crashing

[Patpatpatpatpatpatpat]

Same here. I sent issue report to the technical support team and follow their instructions including reinstalling my GPU, verifying game files, and everything I can find from their website, but the game still crash. No idea why, it worked fine before.

[RielleA.A.C.O.]

Originally posted by Patpatpatpatpatpatpat:

Same here. I sent issue report to the technical support team and follow their instructions including reinstalling my GPU, verifying game files, and everything I can find from their website, but the game still crash. No idea why, it worked fine before.

Yeah, it seems to have come in with the newest update. I also love how some issues even translate to their newer games, I had a bug I know from Planet Zoo in Jurassic World Evolution and I really don't know how you manage to do that.

[cearaivory]

Originally posted by Lee:

Have you verified the game;s files?

We cannot let this be their fallback. It's like Spectrum blaming Netflix and Netflix blaming Spectrum. Frontier needs to take accountability.

[sno0ks]

The engine is infamously bad. You can't even play the game past a middling guest count because of how hard they hit the cpu, and idk how it gets away with it. Imo it isn't a finished product if it's physically impossible to make large zoos.

[RielleA.A.C.O.]

Originally posted by cearaivory:

Originally posted by Lee:

Have you verified the game;s files?

We cannot let this be their fallback. It's like Spectrum blaming Netflix and Netflix blaming Spectrum. Frontier needs to take accountability.

Yeah, definitely.

[SLG]

But have you verified the game;s files? It has solved issues for some people.

[CarrotCube]

Originally posted by sno0ks:

The engine is infamously bad. You can't even play the game past a middling guest count because of how hard they hit the cpu, and idk how it gets away with it. Imo it isn't a finished product if it's physically impossible to make large zoos.

This!
I struggle with this game specifically because I cannot make large zoos
At around 1000 animals and NO guests it starts to struggle.
I remember making enormous zoos back in ZT2 thatd make Planet Zoo die of embarrasment
Zoos with TONS of animals AND guests

And lets remember ZT2 had nursing animations and animations where at least two animals slept together, cuddling

[Patpatpatpatpatpatpat]

Originally posted by RielleA.A.C.O.:

Originally posted by Patpatpatpatpatpatpat:

Same here. I sent issue report to the technical support team and follow their instructions including reinstalling my GPU, verifying game files, and everything I can find from their website, but the game still crash. No idea why, it worked fine before.

Yeah, it seems to have come in with the newest update. I also love how some issues even translate to their newer games, I had a bug I know from Planet Zoo in Jurassic World Evolution and I really don't know how you manage to do that.

I recently try a method from another post by increase the page file size of C driver, it worked for a day. However, when I tried to expand my zoo with more than 3 habitats and four species then the game starts crashing. I can't even load my saved game. Sometimes when I am lucky enough after I optimizing the GPU via Nividia app, the saved game could be loaded successfully but crashed after 15 minutes. This is so annoying, the stability and compatibility are bad!

[Pezza83]

Get a better computer

[𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔠𝔥]

for several years now, I've encountered the bug where zoo keepers will suddenly stop feeding certain exhibits despite the animals inside literally dying

[Trurl]

It's likely due to the copy protection they use. Denuvo is notorious for causing various issues and negatively impacting PC performance. It can occasionally cause the software to become completely unresponsive.

[RielleA.A.C.O.]

Originally posted by Trurl:

It's likely due to the copy protection they use. Denuvo is notorious for causing various issues and negatively impacting PC performance. It can occasionally cause the software to become completely unresponsive.

Oh great. They really don't care about their Players, huh? Why would you continue using something like that software when it makes the User experiences miserable and piracy is usually good for games, 'cause If people like the game they will usually buy it. Athough people could start pirating DLCs if the was you structure them is predatory, and changing that would probably result in less Profit, so why not just ruin the experiences for everyone.