Crach opening foreign policy screen. Trap 5 at 0042083F

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The last time I opened the foreign policy screen I traded with the last minor race remaining. After closing the foreign policy screen I conquered the race. The next time I opened the foreign policy screen (the same or next turn) the game crashed. I believe I had left the foreign policy screen selected at the "minor races" subscreen.

A similar problem was reported on previous builds, but I seem to recall the cercustances being slightly different.

Also, the "are you sure?" screen did not appear when I attacked the minor race ("Debug Message: Unable to open Bitmap file: Gfx\AreYouSure.pcx" appears in the debug file).

Here is the exception report.
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Stardock SmartException Logging Information
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OS Version : Windows ME
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (IBM)
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 0042083F 01:0001F83F E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000000
EBX:837F6DD4
ECX:00000000
EDX:00D5EFCC
ESI:837F6CF4
EDI:00000202
CS:EIP:0187:0042083F
SS:ESP:018F:00D5F3F4 EBP:00D5F444
DS:018F ES:018F FS:130F GS:0000
Flags:00010206


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
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0042083F 00D5F444 0001:0001F83F E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044274C 00D5F4DC 0001:0004174C E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004421A4 00D5F534 0001:000411A4 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0050E1CB 00D5F5F8 0001:0010D1CB E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00445349 00D5F6DC 0001:00044349 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00444EDC 00D5F7BC 0001:00043EDC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00444805 00D5F814 0001:00043805 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00444FB5 00D5F86C 0001:00043FB5 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0045A016 00D5F918 0001:00059016 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004596E7 00D5F980 0001:000586E7 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0050E90C 00D5F9FC 0001:0010D90C E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00523D0D 00D5FA64 0001:00122D0D E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00523FA7 00D5FACC 0001:00122FA7 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0051FB0B 00D5FB44 0001:0011EB0B E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00544004 00D5FBC4 0001:00143004 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABDFF6 00D5FBF0 0001:0001CFF6 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF63613 00D5FC10 0001:00002613 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF848F7 00D5FC24 0002:0001B8F7 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Jack,

I figured Stardock was already working this one out, since it's been around for a while. However, I was just reading another thread where the influence bug (lose an election, gain a galaxy) seemed to be new to Brad, so I thought I'd throw my two cents into the pot.

CTD
This has happened to me a couple of times. In both cases, I accidentally selected the Minor Races diplomacy tab when the Minor Races had ceased to exist. I figured there was no error trap in place for trying to display a screen that no longer had any data (or had random data) to link to its output fields.

Are you sure?
I've noticed this in recent games, too. I assumed that this was a reflection of Stardock's cold-hearted ;) policy that Minor Races are "expansion fodder", but your debug info would belie that assumption.

By the way, kudos to Brad, who appears to either have multiple personalities or an excellent multi-tasker built into the one he's got.

End transmission.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
'CTD
This has happened to me a couple of times. In both cases, I accidentally selected the Minor Races diplomacy tab when the Minor Races had ceased to exist. I figured there was no error trap in place for trying to display a screen that no longer had any data (or had random data) to link to its output fields.'

I haven't tried in beta4a, but judging from past behavior, the tab should have disappeared when the last minor race was conquered. If that tab was the last one selected, that might not stop GalCiv from trying to open it anyway, though.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I just got a very similar exception when selecting the minor races tab, but unlike previous reports in this thread, there were still at least 2 minor races active.

Stardock SmartException Logging Information 01/03/03 20:18:53
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Versions:
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106

Video Card : Matrox Millennium G450 Single Head LX
Crash Information:
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 0042083F 01:0001F83F C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000000
EBX:837EE24C
ECX:00000000
EDX:00D5F1D0
ESI:837EE16C
EDI:00000202
CS:EIP:0187:0042083F
SS:ESP:018F:00D5F5F8 EBP:00D5F648
DS:018F ES:018F FS:18FF GS:0000
Flags:00010202


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
0042083F 00D5F648 0001:0001F83F C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044274C 00D5F6E0 0001:0004174C C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004421A4 00D5F738 0001:000411A4 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0050E1CB 00D5F7FC 0001:0010D1CB C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00444B5F 00D5F8B0 0001:00043B5F C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044450B 00D5F914 0001:0004350B C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004455AF 00D5F994 0001:000445AF C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004457CE 00D5F9FC 0001:000447CE C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00523D0D 00D5FA64 0001:00122D0D C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00523FA7 00D5FACC 0001:00122FA7 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0051FB0B 00D5FB44 0001:0011EB0B C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00544004 00D5FBC4 0001:00143004 C:\PROGRAM FILES\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABDFF6 00D5FBF0 0001:0001CFF6 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF7363B 00D5FC10 0001:0000263B C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF94407 00D5FC24 0002:0001B407 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL

Debug information for each Stardock app follows ....