Oops, typo. It's actually a Phenom.

Hopefully we'll soon see the patch that fixes this consistent crash.

My friends and I are eager to start playing again.

Well if it helps, personally I've found this version to be quite stable. At worst the minidump rate is once every two hours on my end, and I haven't gotten anything that consistently crashes. If you're playing really long games, say after 4 hours, it may become less stable though.

I get minidumps all the time as well.. not even worth playing it like this :/

We'll squash them or the space ponies will squash us. >.>

Hell, I'm crashing randomly even 25 minutes in game now..

Plain 'ole game.. It seems extremely intermittent.

Instead of starting a new thread. This one seems to be along the same line of problem i'm having with this minidump issue. To answer your question Yarlen. I myself checked the game integrity on steam and it found nothing. Im now in the process of reinstalling the game and putting my back upped files back into the game to see if that even temporary fixes the issue. But from what people have said it seems to happen late late game like 4 hours into. And yes, I have been playing a single player match for 4 hours 15 minutes and then I am now getting minidump crashes when I try to load the game back up. Very frustrating to have 4 hours of work get nuked like this.  

Update: Btw stardock, sent you a support e-mail with my minidump file. (hopes they can help) 

I don't know what a "minidump" is.

But I am thoroughly dissapointed. My Core2Duo (E6850) / 4GB ram / GTX 460 PC running Win 7 x86 just had the game crash right at the end of my first GOOD game. After probably six attempts over three days and possibly ten+ hours of gameplay I have finally gotten to where I can work Sins- with one of the races. 

So when I'm having my first truly successful victory 3 v 3 with my population half-capped and 7 planets developed, two hours invested with a huge fleet including teammates who are actually communicating for once instead of just slinging profanities forming a massive doom crusade and it just CTD's right as our group is about to make it's first massive conflict...

Well, it's like watching two hours of a movie but not seeing the ending. It blows. I see that these posts are fairly recent, and I will not be devoting any more time to playing until there is some official response; because the time investment even at the highest play speed just isn't worth it. In that time I could play a dozen Starcraft 2 matches, and it would be a much more exciting (though admittedly less engaging) waste of my evening. 

That said I sincerely hope this gets addressed so I can get back to playing because Sins is probably the most satisfying game I have ever played when all the pieces do fall into place.

I fucking wanted that replay.

BlueJay - if that was you I was playing a 3v3 with last night, I have the replay saved if you wanted it. I warn you though - it's 4 hours long lol. The opponents were asshats who refused to quit, turtled up, spammed a bazilion mines, lagged like crazy, tried to insult us throughout, etc. But we finally won. I thought it was weird you left when you did but a MD makes sense.

http://www.2shared.com/file/1SttBrLw/AutoRecord-07192027.html

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. I can't wait for the patch. I haven't played in so long.

LAA is a dice roll at best. It may work for you, it may not. You can try it, and see for yourself, but keep a backup of your game just in case. LAA will not fix the late game cpu lag issue.

Turn shadows to low (or off for MP games). Bump your graphic settings down a little. Turn bloom, and ship mesh highlight filter off. You really don't need them. Especially in a mp game.

Late game lag is a known issue that has been with us since original sins. Basically just a single core of your CPU is running everything in game. There are many topics about this already, and its a beaten dead horse issue. Sins is a 32 bit single core game, and its gonna stay that way. I personally have been trying to find ways to deal with it (if you havnt noticed the TSOP topics), and i am trying to help the dev's fight the issue too.