Hi. Hope you can help me.
I had read the stickies and some of the other posts, but nothing worked so far.
(Could be that I dont understanding everything)

I have Problems with Dark Avatar.
Especially in the Mission "Return of the Dread Lords"

Before this mission, I encountered sometimes crashes an the disapperaing "next Turn" Button, but nothing gamebreaking.

But in this mission every time I fight a ship of the Dread Lords the Game freeze and it takes several minutes that ships doing my orders. But so far this happens only fighting with the Dread Lords. But then every time. (Perhaps a secret psychological Dread Lord Weapon to make me mad).
But when my ship orders freeze I can make any other orders (visiting planets, menus etc.)

I worked around this error by disable some graphical functions (dont no the english translation but I disabled two functions so that the fights are immediately without Explosions etc. The Ships only disappear then.)

Another Bug is a crash when the Drengin Clan try to invade one of my planets. Every time then the game crash.
Using earlier savegames did not help.

Sorry for my bad english.
Hope you have some hints for me, what I could do.

Debug Message: Version v1.61 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 13 14:10:36 2007
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System Info
Time: 8/31/2007, 01:56:53
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Machine Name: ELVIS
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)
Languages: German (Regional Setting: German)
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