I would also recommend rebooting your computer just in case you haven't already and something got mucked up with the install process and then try again. Can't hurt.

Please let us know if it resolves if for you.

Please submit the crash info to support. Or, if it is easier for you feel free to PM it to me and I will have a developer check it out.

You may want to "Verify the integrity of the game cache" for the game in the steam client to make sure everything downloaded correctly.

Can you send me a dump file?

It would be located here:

c:\programdata\galciv3 there should be a .zip file (several in fact). A couple of them from today would help us nail down what's going on over there.

Added the most recent dump file and a zip to the ticket I created for this thru the SD site.  If you need anything else just let me know...guess ill have to go play ESO or something til we figure out what is going on.

Dropbox...thats right...i remember that now haha..had an issue like this with FE and had to send Derek links...he even called my cell haha.

These were my first 2 crashes today and my last 2.  HOpe they help  and thanks so much for working on this!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/grkqzzsbjytdw7y/GalCiv30_90-2015-04-28T16-36-45-849.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7bj9yzin2w29czn/GalCiv30_90-2015-04-28T16-37-24-421.dmp?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/emmyv1tz8rdzbsw/GalCiv30_90-2015-04-28T17-26-26-95.dmp?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gaukjp0345lb7xz/GalCiv30_90-2015-04-28T17-26-26-95.zip?dl=0

It is crashing because it is looking for a tech specialization in the Terran Engineering tree that doesn't exist.

No idea why a tech would be missing in your version, it works fine here. And its the type of issue that should blow up immediately for anyone playing as Terran (which is most people).

The only thing we can think of that can cause this is if you have some local mod or custom faciton info that is pointing to a tech def that doesn't exist anymore.  To test for that please try these 2 things:

1. Disable mods in your game options, restart gc3 and then see if you still get the crash.

if that doesn't work:

2. Renaming your ..\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3 directory to GalCiv.old and then restart GalCiv. The game will recreate the directories, all of your prefs will be reset and it will clear out any local content you have.

Please let us know if either of these things fixes the issue for you.

Glad it worked for you! You have something causing problems in your "..\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods" directory. If you ever want to use mods you may want to go nuke that directory before you enable mods.