Late Turn Crashing?
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I've gotten relatively late into a game on a medium sized universe (I have something like 60% of the galaxy's influence, doing over 70-80% of the research, quiet a long way ahead in all the main map screen graphs, beaten the Arceans and the Yor and a minor race, and I'm pretty well into the tech tree, up to the Mind Control techs and such), and a little earlier I had the problem of invading the last planet of the Altarians. After taking it it was grayed over with the fog of war, and even if I sent a unit there it didn't lift.
Strangely a few turns later it fixed itself, that was weird.
However, now other than some weird effects like on the save game screen a windows scroll bar appears over the saved games and the unit "build starbase", the game has begun to crash on occassion.
It just dumps you out and the game disappears, back to the desktop, as if you hadn't been playing.
As the game takes longer to process the AIs turns, I'm thinking it might have something to do with that, because it was right as my turn was just begining that it crashed.
Other than that the game has been pretty stable, though. Definately a _major_ improvement - I couldn't even play it for long at all with the previous version.
Strangely a few turns later it fixed itself, that was weird.
However, now other than some weird effects like on the save game screen a windows scroll bar appears over the saved games and the unit "build starbase", the game has begun to crash on occassion.
It just dumps you out and the game disappears, back to the desktop, as if you hadn't been playing.
As the game takes longer to process the AIs turns, I'm thinking it might have something to do with that, because it was right as my turn was just begining that it crashed.
Other than that the game has been pretty stable, though. Definately a _major_ improvement - I couldn't even play it for long at all with the previous version.