Unable to Play the Beta.

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I just installed the new Stardock Central app and upgraded to the 0.9.027 Galactic civ and Multimedia 1.0 versions. Now after the second screen, where you set up the intelligence of the alien races, it dumps me completely out of the game.

I am running W2k with SP3, 512m, Nvidia 750 XGL video card.

Jeff
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I am getting the same error after following the same setup proceedure which you have done.

Win2k, Sp2, 512mb ram, Nvida GeForce3 with 64mb ram

Merc.

(I'm kinda glad I've kept a back up of the old 0.8 beta version. lol.)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Same problem here.... :sniff!:
I assume this is Beta 5?

The new intro screen was nice though.

Game crashed after selecting alien profiles. Smart Exception opened up, but there was no log available.

Help!

Scott
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Same problem here. The bar graph for setting up the game gets to approximately 66% and then crashes to the desktop.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Same here - looks like they have a big problem. It also looks quite bad to have such a late beta that (and I'm guessing here) nobody can actually start a game in. :)

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
BTW - this was with a fresh, from scratch, install.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Here is the relevant snippet from the debug log.

Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Initialize Game Options.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Scanning sprites.
Debug Message: Scanning Models.
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\model2d.cpp at line 2400.
Debug Message: Animation Small has 17 frames of animation, which does not divide evenly into 32 facings.
Debug Message: Scanning bitmaps.
Debug Message: Initializing Galaxy.
Debug Message: Error. String Not Found. Book:DomesticGovernors String: DefaultGovernor5
Debug Message: Begin creating other screens.
Debug Message: Error. String Not Found. Book:SubmitScreen String: LastNameTitle
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to load palette ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to load tile palette ***
Debug Message: Trying to allocate memory of size 0
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 288.
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 598.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
i did a fresh install using the old dgm loader, game is working fine.

windows xp pro
nvidia Gforce4 mmx 440
512 ddr
p 1.6
4 120g hd

my serial number for drengin doesn't work for stardock central so i loaded it via dgm

rich
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't know what the situation is yet. Stardock Central is showing a slightly different picture of the situation than DGM is.

I'm in the middle of a scratch re-install using DGM.
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
I wouldn't suggest using Stardock Central yet.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
Not as your main thing anyway. Keep the drengin one.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
We seem to be missing some key files in the build available via SDC. Downloading the multimedia files does not help. We should have a correct build available later today.