Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The game has gotten worse as they have patched it as far as crashing or locking up goes.  Also some things that where working are no longer working for me now.  Specifically attacking another soveriegn who is at war with you.  This is very frustrating since I was looking forward to this game for a while.  It is reminscent of Sword of Aragon.  Hope they patch it quickly for it is unplayable as it is now.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

The crashes are very frustrating. :(  About 1 in 3 crashes, Windows reports as "Out of Memory" even though I am far from -- I have 4 GB of RAM, and after the first "Out Of Memory" error I started running Window's Task Manager in the background on the performance tab which charts memory usage over time, and though the memory usage was notable, it never exceeded more than about 2/3 of my 4 GB of RAM.

It does not seem to tax my graphics card heavily either, as my GPU never exceeds 65 degrees (it often gets around 80  running Starcraft II by comparison).

There are a lot of other glitches, including spelling errors.  The description for Advanced Archery, for instance, describes "These ranged weapons are more powerful than their lesser counterparts and in the hands of capable archers are deadly compliments to any army."  Firstly, there are at least two missing commas; secondly, I would like everyone in Stardock to grab a dictionary; look up the words compliment and complement.

I can just see it now:  my archers lay down their bows and quivers, and start shouting "You guys look fabulous!" to the enemies, whom then drop dead from the compliments!

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

@Chibiabos LOL   :rofl:

I haven't bought Elemental (yet). It is sad to read all the negative experience people have had. I was hoping for a quality game from Stardock but I guess, as always, money is a factor in all consumer products. Quality has lost it's value. So sad v_v

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

@Chibiabos

Are you on a 32 or 64 bit machine and how much RAM does your GFX card have?  on a 32 bit OS it is 4GB TOTAL RAM, if your GFX card has 512MB or more RAM then you were indeed out of memory.  A 64bit OS eliminates that problem as it supports more memory addressing.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I have 64 bit Windows 7 os with 4gb ddr4 ... i get out of memory crashes about every 3 or 4 hours of consecutive play time.  Not sure why...

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Posted in another thread but thought I would try here too. 

Regardless of patch iteration thus far the game will crash 100% of the time somewhere between turns 20-30 and maybe 5-minutes of play time.  The game hangs for a moment, CTD with an unhelpful message of "program has stopped functioning properly and must close."

The crash always occurs during a map scroll, so I thought it might be graphics related.  Toning them down has no effect (and I should not have to as I can run all current gen games with settings max'd.)  Should not be the notorious graphics leak issue as it will happen at exactly the same map scroll upon loading the saved game after a computer reboot.

The game is currently unplayable for me...any suggestions?