had updated elemetnal, deleted all save games, then started a new game in1.2c with the same mods & map as usual for my testing, played to tun 685 when had eleemtnal unable to read from adress 0x0000004 crash, zip file created, added saves & dxdiag
also noted that the one per town buildings(eg inn, pub,town hall, granery, garden, irrigation system) also have a steeply increasing population demand, and I i build a single study the pop cost was OVER 400, but when demolished BEFORE construction was started, ONLY ONE of the 400 was returned to the population pool.
harpo