DarkOrbit Unity - crash on takeoff

Have been trying to get Unity to actually run on my laptop.
It takes a VERY long time for the download to complete (counting the restarts required due to time limits during the download it can be as much as 30 minutes+.
Whether I use the Launcher and prompted via the 'START' button, or the 'DarkOrbit.exe' shortcut, I get a nice little pop-up box that I have finally been quick enough to screen capture
I did try to post a jpg image of the screen capture, but, alas, it is not accepted it seems.
... Besides the picture, there is some text information:

DarkOrbit - Unity 2022.3.58f1_ed7f6eacb62e {note: this is a faded gray colour}

then the image of a square shaped box showing in the upper left corner a red '!'
.... as well as the familiar dark square that has the text Dark Orbit Reloaded.
below that is a space for the 'loading?' time which has about a 1/20th of the space as green the remaining space is white(unused)

The UNITY version does not start up.
This pop-up is extremely brief and that is all that happens.
Waiting over 15 minutes and still no further action.
Is this UNITY version only supposed to be for non-PC (laptop) types ?
Please do not get rid of the the older version as the flash style still outperforms UNITY.

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Update: [Aug.12, 2025]
Just tried UNITY again. There was yet another download (still takes the same amount of time to download an update as it did the initial full load).
Multiple timeouts still occur during download, requiring as many re-download attempts to get it to complete.
Result was the same startup failure.
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I have exactly the same issue, please tell us how to fix it.

Regards,
Gautier

 

im really bored having to re-download unity every 2/3 times i try to use it - waste of time - why DO ?

 

Here is another update on DO issues.
Received reply from someone who is probably well-meaning, but rather new to the system.
In my bug report I specified that I was having problems getting the 'Launcher' to actually start the update process as the button implied.
I had to erase the entire UNITY download that I had been trying to get to work for a couple of months. (again)
I ended up down loading the Dark Orbit Unity version, again.
This time it came up (version was 1.1.66) : as of 10:23am eastern time, sept.29, 2025.
- the launcher only timed out 5 times, but did restart.
Upon having UNITY starting, here are the following issues I was given:
- Log-In credentials had the tops clipped . . . but was barely readable.
- The START screen showed very large text had text skewed to the right so the first 'T' appeared as an inverted 'L', followed by the ART, then a space followed by 'S' and what looked like a large '7'
In addition, the following was observable while attempting to play the game:
-- ship colour was okay
-- gate identifier was shown
-- no gate seen ( unless GOOD graphics used, then the gate was a blackened out image of what one sees in Flash version )
-- no grid lines to reference ship position to mini-map
-- only after Settings selected was the background visible.
-- in Settings Mode, once the INTERFACE is clicked on, no way to exit.
-- Attempt to use Settings to reposition anything via the grid, the only way to get out of the grid line condition was to LOGOFF.
-- Very Difficult to see much detail with the windows icon box selections...
example: Click on Seasons; no Text for what individual tasks are, just see general titles.
-- Upon logout, the 'X' that used to be shown at top right of display, now appears as a square fog box
(similar to what a weather forecast might show for fog)

It still comes down to questions as to what vintage/version is expected to be used by this UNITY stuff and why is there not a USER version of graphic settings?

The FLASH version still outshines what we can see in UNITY.

... and sorry, NO, I am not putting in multiple tickets on this just to see a message come back asking to re-load the UNITY, and the reply email to me shows it is from a 'NO-REPLY' point of origin.

 

Pretty much the same for me .got worse after the auto hunt thing was put into game

 

i'll keep playing on flash version. it still works (for now anyway). seems a lot of ppl have moved to unity. i tried it and didn't really care for it, besides them forcing updates/reloads everyweek.

anyway, sticking with old school till it dies

have fun out there

 

Tried again on UNITY today... the advertising for the big sale was up and could not find the 'X' button to cancel it... had to just quit the game because the advert was blocking anything else that could come up. Even the chat box had the entry line so it had to be guessed at to start any entry.
Always end up going back to flash. At least it has been a lot more reliable.