The debug.err file doesn't show the fault, I'm sorry to report. The video card crashes, black screen, no debug.err file is created.
mastever
Since the update to 1.01, I can play a few minutes and then my video card crashes. It goes to a black screen and the computer needs a hard boot to recover. I have an NVidea GeForce 9800 GX2, running on Windows XP SP3.
I loaded version 1.01 last night. The good news: The game no longer runs as though my CPU is mired in mud. The bad news: Every 10 or 12 minutes I get a hard crash, black screen, and need to do a hard reboot of my computer. More bad news: It's no longer possible to build anything but basic buildings. So if I establish a town next to fertile ground, the farm is not available. If I establish a town next to iron ore, an iron mine is not available.
I couldn't get the file to extract. I got this message: Extracting to "c:\windows\TEMP\" Use Path: no Overlay Files: yes Extracting gc105_bonuspak.exe bad CRC 7ffe97b7 (should be c44d564b)
I have four suggestions: 1. Don't add to the level of complexity. Right now turns go fast, that's good. 2. More hyperlinks to reference info. There are lots of places in the game where I'd like to click to get info on a ship type, social improvements, and tech--but rarely is that info available with one click. 3. A ship selected/planet selected window. There are times I'm moving to look at other information and I lose the ship/planet I was looking at when moving to