Frustrations

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First off, let me say, that I've been a long time fan of Stardock and their games.  I've got every Galactic Civilizations game and Elemental.  I loved Master of Magic for all it's crashiness. 

But this is getting ridiculous.  Just when I get a good game going, I've got some opponents more powerful than me.  I'm fighting for resoruces.  I've got a great economy going.  I'm looting the countryside and enjoying the quests.  The mod support is great.  I love the music!

And then my save games don't work any more.  They crash the game.  All of them. 

1.0 came and went.  1.1 came and went.  1.2 came and went.  And now we're here.  The game isn't anywhere close to stable yet.  It crashes randomly (I've posted the bugs), it runs out of memory.  And save games don't load any more.

I've invested a lot of time in playing this game.  And it's extremely frustrating to get through a whole lot of the game and really look forward to playing it, only to have the software fail to deliver.  I'd have to start over, and I don't think I'm interested.  Maybe I'll check back in when you patch it again.

Cheers.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I don`t have this problem with crash the game and when i load save.  Game is working. 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I understand your frustration, but the game works fine on my system and the peformance after 1.2 is much better.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I have the same issue, I've been trying to complete a game on a large map and
even 1.2xxx crashes 1-2 times per turn and often the save game/auto save
crashes too. Although I can reload to that point as the game seems to crash
immediately after the save not during and the file is usable. Also did you
notice all units moves are cut to 2 on reload though.... at the start of the next
turn they’re correct but not on the turn you load????



Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It's simply not acceptable to me for the game to routinely not be able to load save games any more.  This isn't a rare occurrence.  Knowing that it's going to eventually eat my save games, I'm no longer willing to put the time into a game.

 

@Lantros:  Glad it works for you!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting cparkin01, reply 3
I have the same issue, I've been trying to complete a game on a large map and
even 1.2xxx crashes 1-2 times per turn and often the save game/auto save
crashes too. Although I can reload to that point as the game seems to crash
immediately after the save not during and the file is usable. Also did you
notice all units moves are cut to 2 on reload though.... at the start of the next
turn they’re correct but not on the turn you load????



End of cparkin01's quote

... try not using black colored text on the forum with a black background for the forum part of the thread... it's hard to freaking read that text... any other color besides that color will work... but black... worst possible color for the forum with it's black background.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

all you can do is post your saves, dump files, direct x information etc. in the support forums and hope for the best.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I am also frustrated now with the game. After the last updat I have more crashes more freezes,out of memory, and I have the cant do combat without finishing with auto, and I have the bug were the avatars are nakid without a head.

Rather than working on the next game how about finishing this one.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

I hope that everyone who is having an issue is reporting their issues with their files so they can be looked at.