updated elemental from 1.2(had played several sessions of OVER 12 hours without crashes in 1.2), deleted the saves folder, started a new game on a 10 x 8 map with 15 starts me with my usual custom faction and sov the 10 standard factions,
played to turn 248 (after only 3 hours of play)(and this turn number if I remember correctly is about what I was getting in the 1.0X series) and had a windows error message of an application(elemental) tried to read from a restricted memory address
zip file was created, added dxdiag & save games
harpo
edit doublechecked map size actually 10 x 8