restarted elemental & loaded save game (turn 251) played on till ANOTHER windows crash(at turn 392 approx 2 and a half hours of play on a intel e4600 geforece 7600gs 4gb ddr2 1066 system) attempting to read from ram address 0x00000004 by elemental.exe.
during play had built 2 more towns, and have noticed the exponential pop use (ie pop required MORE than pop available after queueing ONE building in any of my towns( cap at level 5, second and third towns at level 3 with research speed of 39 for entire faction
at crash zip file created, added dxdiag & save games
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