i too have this issue. Visual C++ runtime error but it happens 1/2-1hr into the game. may depend on how complex/large the level is. the first game i played i did not encounter this issue, and my friend has not either yet. i even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the 2010 C++ redist's (both x86 and x64) and it still happens.

it is making the game unplayable.

system:

Core i7 920 3.8GHz. 12GB DDR3 Ram. AMD Radeon HD 7970. windows 7 ultimate 64x

So, I sent a crash report this morning for the same issue to the email address provided for crash reports. 

My computer did not have a sins dump on crash though - Thus, I assume that this is actually not the game crashing, but rather interference with some other process?

i7 Vaio (laptop), 16G DDR3, Nvidia 330M, Win7 64bit.  (system information was provided via the stardock system analyzer tool thingy) you can cross-ref my forum account with the email I sent the crash report from to get full system information.

This crash has only happened once, although I've only played 0.80 for about 4 hours.

Large map, single player, 8 players (myself as TEC Rebels, 7 random "hard" AI (not sure what all they were as I wasn't necessarily paying attention), all default victory conditions (all "off"?), all other game options are 'default' except for video resolution which IIRC 2000x1024, and I probably cranked some of the texturing/effects up a bit, probably about 2 hours into the game.

I don't think I saved the game, and there were no autosaves to resurrect the game with (are autosaves not showing up for some reason?  my game would autosave every so often during play). 

If I encounter this again, I'll be sure to update on this thread and of course email what I've got.

Cheers, and great game thus far,

-tid242

Forums have been down all weekend for me, bumping for cbray to review.

kosten

I tried on medium and large maps, still crashed about 30-45minutes into the game regardless

i tried playing the game on singleplayer after having this issue in multiplayer, still crashed.

i was never able to see where to load the sp-auto save but for multiplayer the host was able to load his autosave. the game still crashed about 30 minutes after restarting the match from the save.

 

here are some things i tried:

Erased and re-downloaded the game through steam.

Registry scan and clean by 2 reputable programs (auslogics registry cleaner and piriform ccleaner)

Uninstalled and reinstalled the Visual C++ redists (both 32bit and 64bit)

system specs (again):

Core i7 920 @ 3.8GHz

12GB DDR3 1600MHz

AMD Radeon HD 7970

i am able to run the game flawlessly at max graphics settings, but this issue is making it so i just cant play the game at all. hope you guys can find a fix for it.

I saw that there was an update today so i tried again. I got much further into the game (about 2 hours) before it crashed this time, instead of only about 30 minutes before. the game crashed right after i started building a titan factory.

^ Having the same issue about 3+ hours into a multi-player game on max graphics with bloom enabled.

I also had this CTD-without-dump several times in previous betas.

I just had one with beta 2c and once I loaded the game from the autosave, I was able to play for several hours later on.

I'd do a shotgun approach on looking for some memory mismanagement which puts the program in an inconsistent state, which crops up depending on how objects are created and destroyed along the program operation, but not (or hardly) a bug which can be reproduced consistently solely from a saved game state. One of those pesky corner cases which depend on a set of conditions which mostly work, unless they are put together in the excact wrong way...

Hmmm, have you guys (at least the ones having super frequent crashes) tried lowering texture settings? If it's memory related that should help, and if that's the case then we have a good starting place.

I'll bump up my textures to obscene levels to see if it crashes more frequently. Even if my frame rate suffers. Then I will tone down to the minimum and see if it gets less frequent.

btw, this latest crash happened while placing a hangar or something (autoplace "off"), or moving a ship or something, so I don't think that squad creation caused it.  As far as I can tell it's completely random.  Also, if it's a video issue, it might be useful to know that I usually play zoomed out enough that all of the ships/structures are just the map icons (instead of the cool looking floating assets in space).

Will keep you guys informed if turning down the textures or anything else I do can consistently seem to be tied with this crash.  It would be handy if I didn't have to play for 2-4 hours before it would crash on me.  ;\

-tid242

Question at you guys:

with those crashes, without C++ error, just straight to the desktop, did it not happen to you with bit more ships on the screen, while zooming in and out? Because it seems, it usually happens to me in such situations. I recall it happened as i was zooming in and out and in again on the group of dogfighting advent bombers firing lots of those small laser beams at some TEC capship and lately while zooming it on Vasari Marauder doing the ability, which lets it move quicker... everytime as i zoomed in, i had a feeling, it was choppy for a moment before crashing, so i am led to believe its some graphical issue. 

I have geforce gtx590    not too shabby either.  Obviously though, it has only 1,5 GB of videoRAM per GPU, so if its related to the lack of videoRAM, you may be right.

tried to host a multiplayer game. after about an hour it started lagging a whole bunch, then crashed.