Help! Game crashes after 60-80 turns

[Raging Idiot]

I would start by updating all your drivers one at a time and see if it fixes the problem. I know your video drivers are a little out of date. You may want to check the sound card also.

Have you run this game without problems before or have you always had this problem since you first installed it?

When the game crashes does your whole computer crash or can you recover and keep working? In my experience a computer overheating will completely fail not just crash to desktop.

If all else fails try uninstalling and reinstall.

[Ibn Arabi]

Well, I have the same video card in my gaming box as you and have no problems, but I'm using newer drivers (the 52.16 drivers you have had some bugs), so give that a try. Grab the 53.03 drivers from Nvidia over here;

53.03

Could also be your ram timings, considering that it does not always happen to you, either that or heat. You may want to open up your box and blow all the dust out of your heatsink and clean off your fans. Since its an alienware box I imagine they cranked up your ram timings, you may want to hop in the BIOS and relax them a bit. i.e. If they are at 6-2-2 cas 2 drop them down to 8-4-4 cas 3, or 7-3-3-cas 2.5. Its a quick and easy fix.

You may want to scan your drive for errors as well (sometimes there will be a error on the disk in the midst of the region designated for the swap file)
hit start->run->then type 'cmd'
->hit OK- type 'chkdsk c: /r', then agree to have it done when you reboot (dont type the quotes). Go reboot and wait a while. You have enough ram not to need the swap file, but unless you've set a few settings in the registry windows will use the thing like an idiot even with a couple gigs of ram available....

Good luck

[Arralen]

The savegame crashes on my computer as well.

And it's a totally different machine (W2kSP2, Gef2Ti, Crystal 8xxxx PCI Sound, DX8.1 etc.)

Looks like DOM freaks out when processing a AI vs AI fight (Ctis 8 : Ermor 1500 units or something like this), judging from the logfile.

Possibly the devs tested on Linux Boxes only, and we know that there's a glitch concerning (different) random numbers on the different systems.

I'll zip the files up and send them to Illwinter.
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[Felgar]

Thanks Arralen and everyone else. Though I'm sad to see a potential nasty bug crop up, I am relieved it wasn't something specific to my box alone. It will hopefully be squashed soon and then I'll have to try and figure out how to handle those thousands of enemy units cropping up on my borders.

I did suspect the large armies might have something to do with it as the CTD only happened after huge 1000+ armies started showing up on my borders. But I lacked the technical know-how to track it down, so thanks again for all the help.