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Broken achievements[]

There are a number of these that don't seem to work right now. I should have

  • Light years ahead of the competition!
  • Building a better today
  • I am the swarm

But they haven't unlocked. Exitwound 45 (talk) 21:52, May 9, 2015 (UTC)

I've had some problems with the achievements too. "Light years ahead of the competition!" and "Building a better today" have worked fine for me, but "I am the swarm" and "The technology of tomorrow" won't unlock for me. :( I contacted the 2K support about the matter a week ago, and got a list of things to try:

Steam:

+Go to your Library in Steam and right-click the game. +Select Properties in the menu. +Select the Local Files tab. +Click the Verify Integrity of Game Cache... button. +allow the process to run. This may take some time.

After these steps, please try again and see if it works. If it still gives you a problem, the next step is uninstalling and reinstalling the game to the console.

NOTE: If you required assistance uninstalling the game from your console, please follow the steps below:

Steam:

+Please note that your game saves should be saved in the steam cloud but you may want to go ahead and back them up just to be safe. +Go to your Library in Steam and right-click the game. +Select Properties in the menu. +Select the Local Files tab. +Click the Delete Local Game Content... button. +Once deleted find the game in your games list and right click it. +Choose Install Game from the right click menu.

NOTE: Try running the game again and be sure to run the game as administrator. If you require assistance running the game as administrator, please follow the steps below:

+Right click on your game's desktop shortcut. +Select 'Properties'. +Click on the 'Compatibility' tab and check the box at the bottom under 'Privilege Level' where it says 'Run this Program as an administrator'. +Click Apply and OK. +Once you have done all of the above, please restart your game.

I also sent them my dxdiag file and they determined my video card driver was out of date, so I updated that one too. Unfortunately none of the above worked for me, and the achievements still won't unlock. :( I sent them back the save game file that I used, but haven't heard from them again. You could try if any of those tricks would work for you, though.
(The "run as admin" steps weren't quite what was described above, I basically first just had to create a new shortcut pointing to the Starships.exe instead of the "steam://" shortcut that I had, but anyway.)
ZeroOne (talk) 18:30, May 10, 2015 (UTC)