Windows Vista 64bit game crashes

The game crashes a ton. Could be incompatible with Vista 64bit

After about 20 crashes, I finally figured out that the SmartException program (that stardock recommends for capturing crash info) does not automatically send the crash data in.

I only got the last 3 sent it before calling it quits. The game crashes A LOT! I mean like every 10-15 minutes. If I save often, it seems to make it less frequent. Right now I cannot go any further in game, well unless I chose not to pan the camera across one space station in the middle of my map. I just built it and even added a module. It took some saves and reloads to get that far. Most of my crashes revolve around the space stations and adding modules. Usually modules that mine resources or give bonuses (like freight or influence).

Last note. The sound has not worked yet. . I am guessing the directX drivers that Vista uses is not liking this game. Maybe why the game is crashing too. I have played a few other games that are seriously resource and system hogs and they play fine in Vista. Oblivion is very system intensive and I get music and no crashes.

This game needs some serious patches on Vista. I cannot account for XP users. I have a XP laptop and will probably try playing on it and see if I have the same problems. I have not heard a lot of people having a huge amount of crashes, so I am guessing XP is pretty stable.
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Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.
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Unfortunately, there's not a lot we can do.  There is no "make work on Vista perfectly" call. It's really in the hands of the driver makers to properly support DirectX on Vista.

It's one of the reasons I haven't migrated to Vista on my main gaming box. Too many of my games have problems (Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, to name two). 

If you have 32-bit Vista with an ATI card, it's in pretty good shape.  If you have 32-bit Vista with an nVidia card with their new beta drivers, you're in good shape too.  64-bit Vista with stock drivers, is probably going to be somewhat painful for a bit.