Suddenly unable to load or start a game

I get to the load screen, but then nothing happens, the bar stays empty with no load or start. I can setup everything pregame, but Sins goes unresponsive at load screen. This just recently started to happen. Never had a problem before. Vista x64 OS. Anyone else experiencing this issue lately? Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 Top

do you have a mod active?

also try reinstalling the game, maybe something went snap (not normally an issue, but it couldn't hurt)

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No mods installed. But I believe you're right in that I should reinstall the game. Thanks Ryat.

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I discovered that when starting a game at the load screen it hangs up on the /Sins of a Solar Empire/Mesh/Tradeship_Tech.mesh file.  Would this be a full reinstall problem, or is it fixable without reinstall?  Thanks.

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I think Impulse has a fix feature on it. But aside from that, having the original disk maybe your only answer short of complete reinstall.

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no problem, any time

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Hmm...now I'm able to load a game, but now, shortly after launch the game hangs and gives a minidump.  I sent an email to ironclad tech support with the attached minidump file and DxDiag.  Hopefully, they can shed some light on the matter.  It's just odd that all of a sudden after playing smoothly for months that I now can't even get out of the gate.  The only change to my system that I can think of is I recently added a external Seagate backup drive just prior to the start of the problem.