Gpu skinning is broken on some GPUs. Will hopefully be fixed when A27.1 comes out

Yes, correct for both.  Units are only broken when enabling GPU skinning during a game and it seems to only effect current units, and when their broken, they don't even look like units, they look like never ending lines of color I re-enabled GPU skinning during a game to get a screen shot of broken units looking like never ending lines. Tried getting a screen shot of the units after restarting the game with GPU skinning enabled, but weirdly, instead of getting with units with artifacts(different from the image, more the units not rendering correctly) the game closes with no error message as if I opened task manager and closed the game. Tried restarting the game multiple times with GPU skinning enabled not toughing any setting, and game starts to load then closes with no error message. I opened the game, disabled GPU skinning, exited the game and reopened and it back to working normally. So diffidently an issue going with the game and my hardware not liking each other as the game works flawlessly on my desktop.

You're probably looking for the multiplayer lobby. "Join Game" is for directly joining a game, "Game Lobby" for the multiplayer lobby.

I have not been able to play with friends online for over a week. When I click "multiplayer" and "join the game" I get an error: "Failed to connect to the server. Often the reason for this is the blocking of UDP port 20595 by the owner's firewall or antivirus". I can't even go to the server selection. Before that, everything was fine, I didn't change anything. It just started giving an error one day and I still can't play online

So you mean that after updating the driver: Vulkan + GPU skinning disabled works fine in both fullscreen and windowed mode, Vulkan + GPU skinning enabled in both fullscreen and windowed mode runs, but the units look broken, is that correct?   Besides, after changing the GPU skinning setting and saving it, did you restart 0 A.D.? Because on my side, if I change from Vulkan + GPU skinning disabled to Vulkan + GPU skinning enabled, save the setting and start a new game right away, the game runs without crashing — but I suspect GPU skinning isn’t actually active.

Nusantara, Nusantara1 HaveToLucky HaveToLucky1 be aware of all these accounts, they are all teh same and he is trying to make new accoutns with perfect records.  He just quit rated game with the HaveToLucky1 account, after losing 2 rated games with Nusantara1. Its a 1200 player trying to look better than they are.

Han should be fine, since the units and buildings already exist. There might be issues with a couple of the carthage items, like the trade colony.