Game freezes ... please help

I get an unrecoverable crash in the following circumstances:

After researching Diplomacy (i think) a new form of government is available to me (Republic). I didn't switch immediately (sort of forgot), but after maybe 8 turns I remembered, saved, and decided to switch. When the election window pops up, there's the "next" button for me to press to see the election results. After I press that an error message pops up (must alt-tab out of the game to see it), and the game freezes. The error message is as follows,

ASSERT Failed

g_cFGObjects == 0
At line 5868 of d:\builds\nt32_chk\multimedia\dshow\filters\core\filgraph\filgraph\filgraph.cpp
Continue? (Cancel to debug)

The error window seems to be frozen as well because I can't click on any of the buttons ... after a bit Win XP tells me that the applications are not responding and terminates GalCiv along with the error message window.

I have the latest version of the game (1.03A.057) running on WinXP. My CPU is an Athlon T-Bird 1.40 Ghz with 768 Mb of RAM. Video is a GeForce 3. Sound an Audigy 2 Platinum.

I noticed you ask for save games from some folks, if you want mine please tell me where to send it.

~SDC~
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Reply #1 Top
The assertion appears to be display driver related. Previous suggestions by Carielf have been to make sure you have the latest drivers and if you have Direct X v9.0 install v9.0a from the Microsoft site.
Reply #2 Top
I managed to circumvent the problem ... i reloaded a much earlier save (one before I researched diplomacy). When I got the chance to switch to Republic, I did it immediately (held my fingers crossed), and no errors occured ... baffles me.

~SDC~
Reply #3 Top
I saw your post in the bug thread, BuzuBuzu and I'll be looking into that.