I Have been having problems with the game crashing right at the start whenever I clicked on a ship. I did all the trouble shooting steps. As it turns out this was a complete waste of time. Why would my machine that had been running the game well, suddenly stop running it well? Turns out the problem lies with custom races. My one custom race, plus the terrans would not run properly, I.E. crashing after clicking on the first ship in the very first turn. The only thing that I can figure is that I had created custom ships for these races.....I also noticed in the beginning of the debug.err file that it notes certain ships for which Mods are not found...I'll paste the line in below:
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\lyal\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Designs\*.component
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: Chicken of Death could not be loaded because it requires mods that are not present on this computer. These will be treated as cosmetic components without any stats.
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: M1 could not be loaded because it requires mods that are not present on this computer. These will be treated as cosmetic components without any stats.
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: Haymaker1 could not be loaded because it requires mods that are not present on this computer. These will be treated as cosmetic components without any stats.
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: Screamin' T-Bone could not be loaded because it requires mods that are not present on this computer. These will be treated as cosmetic components without any stats.
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: Terrible Chicken could not be loaded because it requires mods that are not present on this computer. These will be treated as cosmetic components without any stats.
Debug Message: WARNING: Ship Design: USS Reagan could not be
So, my question would be that in the "cosmetic treatment" of these ships something is awry?
Thanks so much for your support, and this game is really terrific and just about worth all the headaches...
Lyal