New SoSE Hangs Regularly?

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I have been able to play SoSE without any issues.  I recently updated to the latest beta and now the game hangs my PC within 5 minutes of a game start.  About 20% of the time it will crash to desktop, the rest of the time it locks up the PC (screen visible, music playing but no response to CTRL-ALT-DEL, Start Menu, etc.).

Windows XP Pro

ATI Radeon 9800

Are there any crash files I can send in to help diagnose?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

When it crashes, do you get a minidump message? You might also check the windows event log (under Control Panel\Administrative Tools) and see if there are any errors logged at the time of the crash/hang.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date:  11/3/2008
Time:  8:56:38 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: 
Description:
Faulting application sins of a solar empire.exe, version 1.0.9.6, faulting module , version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 73 69 6e   ure  sin
0018: 73 20 6f 66 20 61 20 73   s of a s
0020: 6f 6c 61 72 20 65 6d 70   olar emp
0028: 69 72 65 2e 65 78 65 20   ire.exe
0030: 31 2e 30 2e 39 2e 36 20   1.0.9.6
0038: 69 6e 20 20 30 2e 30 2e   in  0.0.
0040: 30 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f   0.0 at o
0048: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30   ffset 00
0050: 30 30 30 30 30 30 0d 0a   000000..

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Still crashes.  I've uninstalled & reinstalled the video drivers (latest) and the game.  No luck.  It seizes up about 5 minutes into play; either crashes to desktop or hangs the system (cannot see the desktop, just a corrupted screen).

 

Any thoughts?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

:'( Try uninstalling sins and going back to the non beta version until 1.1 final

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

which is tommorow!:grin:

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, I uninstalled it and went back to the last stable release.

Screen update speed much better, no crashes.

/sarcasm on

Kudos to Stardock for putting the "don't show beta releases" option in such an obvious place.  I ALWAYS click on the company logo when I want to find the options screen.

/sarcasm off

 

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting M-5, reply 6
Well, I uninstalled it and went back to the last stable release.

Kudos to Stardock for putting the "don't show beta releases" option in such an obvious place.  I ALWAYS click on the company logo when I want to find the options screen.

End of M-5's quote

Actually, just for clarification, the default in Impulse is to NOT show beta releases. You need to enable to option to be able to see beta releases to be able to download/install/play the betas..

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting megamanfan, reply 5
which is tommorow!
End of megamanfan's quote
Not any more. The release of 1.1 has been pushed back to the ninteenth.

 

Samurye. :ninja:

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, I just found that out....