All -
Just picked this game up recently, seems very good so far. I've run into one problem and wanted to know if anyone else has experience with it:
Every once in a while, generally when I zoom in/out too quickly or scroll quickly across the map, the screen will freeze. The music continues and I can still click on things if I know where they are (e.g. the buttons in the top-left corner, the button in the bottom-right corner), but the screen is totally locked until I use the task manager to kill the application.
I think this has something to do with the particle effects - it tends to freeze when a nebula or radiation cloud is on-screen (including when I zip across the map using the "idle ship" command - it gets stuck on one of these features). Turning the particle effects off in the options seems to fix it, but then I can't see these features at all and only know where they are from tooltips.
Anyone have experience with this or a similar issue regarding the frozen screen? Does anyone know of a way to tone-down the effects without completely turning them off?
I've done the basics - reboot, verify graphics drivers are enabled, confirmed RAM is sufficient.
Thanks in advance!