"Elemental has stopped working"

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I have a game that consistently crashes, giving "out of memory" errors with increasing frequency and now also "elemental has stopped working." The second error is now fatal and has stopped my 25 hour game in its tracks: going back to an old save and playing forward just means the same error happens at a slightly different time and place. I have shut down the game many times, lowered the resolution, video, and audio settings, rebooted the computer, and it all occurs regardless.

The error occurs at the beginning of a season. There is a cascading sound of timbers rattling, one after the other, that occurs as buildings are upgraded en masse as one of my cities levels up or a new technology upgrades buildings like forts to fortresses. The game never recovers: about 3.5 min later I get the windows message that "elemental has stopped working" without ever gaining control or a dialogue box reacting.

My error file is at: http://pastebin.com/hspN1fAE

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Hi Sam - you are running 1.11, correct? I think this particular bug was fixed in the 1.19 series of betas...so the 1.2 version should fix this when released (or if you elect to upgrade to the beta series).

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah...I fell ya Bro..I play b/c i love the game but I know it only goes so far. Hate to wax trite but patience (in my case a quality rarer than Elementium) is a virtue....

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I have loaded the 1.19n patch as you suggested. This resolved the "elemental has stopped working" problem, but the "out of memory" errors continue unabated. And now I have a new problem: the game locked during a regular turn and when I try to reload any save the game hangs during the loading tip screen and never loads the game, even if I wait an hour or more. I have adjusted what settings I can to minimum, restarted the game, restarted the computer, and it makes no difference. Since I autosave every turn and manually save after any significant action due to the frequency of the "out of memory" error I have seven saves to choose from, but none of them load. Since the game does not run it does not produce an error there does not appear to be a fresh crash file to paste.

32 hours of game now stranded...Again. It's a good game but it's back to civ 5 for me. I've wasted over 6 hours between reloading, failing, reloading, rebooting, patching, failing, reloading, blah blah. This is why beta testing is good. PST when it works.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I have version 1.3 and I am getting the "Elemental has stopped working" error. If I do not save the game every few moves I can lose some progress. What is it with this game? It has had issues from day one. I love playing it but the errors and crashes just keep coming. Anyone have any ideas on this error? I use to get the out of memory error now after updating to 1.3 I don't get them anylonger I get the Elemental has stopped working error. It could come after 5 minutes of play or 15 minutes or 3 minutes.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

yeah I have this error as well, had it on day one, still have it today. Generally happens around 30-45 min in for me, less if i load a saved game where it happened before. Hard to play a long strategy game when you can't go 30 minutes without crashing unexpectedly.