Playing Smugglers 5 for Mac. After a combat encounter, I'm returned to the normal main/map screen but all buttons are unresponsive. I literally have to force quit the game and restart it. Has anyone else had this problem and are there any workarounds?

One workaround I have found is to keep the "sol" trading window open at all times. After combat and returning to the unresponsive main/map screen, if I click on the "sol" trading window and click close, the game seems to go back to normal...

...and i can be merry again.

Workarounds?

You are not the only one, I am also having this issue on the Mac. Oddly, it only started happening after I completed my first run-through of the game. With the new character I have not been able to leave the starting system as the game keeps locking up after battles.

I'll have to try yours, I just save incessantly, and hope for the best.

edit: still see this problem from time to time. Playing on Win 8, fyi.

It appears this has to do with Wine, which GOG uses to let it run under Mac. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do on my end here.

I don´t have a Mac or Linux PC for developing and testing, but sure granted I am keeping cross platform compatibility on my mind and to-do list for future games and updates.

Same here on win 7 64 .

appear after combat tied to planet exploration , planet windows don't reappear correctly after combat/story text (not every time only very few )

alt + tab (swap processus windows) work for me , the planet windows reappear and i can close it .

hope it help .

Just got the same thing after a combat encounter via a mission on Glenshire.

Everything locked up. Didn't know about the Alt Tab "fix" I'll try it if it happens again.

P.S. this is with the new 1.2 patch

I am running OSX 10.6.8, and i had similar problems. It seems that the game is composed of several windows. If an active pop-up window (say victory or defeat window) is spawned and you click in another window than the the pop-up, the the pop-up is no longer the active window (and will be covered by the window you clicked - so you can't see it). The other game windows are waiting from an input to the popup before they will respond again. Hence, the game is not unresponsive - just buggy in combination with wineskin.

I solved this problem under 1.0.0.7 by forcing the game to run in windowed mode with window decorations so i could move them around when this happened.

Today, GOG.com patched the game to 1.1.0.9, which seems to fix that and many other issues I had with the game.

A word of warning though, Remember to backup your saves (located in "/Applications/Smugglers V/Content/Resources/c_drive/users/Wineskin/My Documents/Smugglers5"). The extension is .smg. If you do not backup the saves they will be lost when you update.