Bug: Upgrading ship designs can cause CTD when you restart the game

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It seems that doing an Upgrade on an existing ship design (your design OR a built-in design) causes some kind of corruption in the game files for Beta 3 v0.31. This manifests itself as a Crash to Desktop immediately after you try to run GalCiv 2.

This can be avoided by NEVER UPGRADING ship designs. Always create a brand new ship design instead.

-Proud Canadian
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
hmmm that hasn't hapened yet... maybe its a random bug? still even for a Game that it all can do is Bulid War Ships and improve planets up to like 50% Technological possiblity showing its some chessy Wargame Demo... But Brad said that it has no Real AI Nor Diplomacy even though i kinda got through it.. AND used it no crash... Its odd... alot of the bugs you guys are having really aren't applying to my comp execpt for a bit But not all... Even though my computer can barely run the game... maybe its somting i picked at start-up?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have to second Proud Canadian's report. I upgraded a design, and had to exit (couldn't find what was out of place badly enough to stop it from going to next turn) and now it refuses to do naught but dump to the desktop immediately.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
PC and PCM,
Have you tried a complete uninstall/install yet? You may wish to look at my post at https://www.galciv2.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=274&AID=85593 ..
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
PC and PCM,
Have you tried a complete uninstall/install yet?


Already done complete uninstall/reinstall twice before I narrowed my problem down to the ship upgrade problem that I reported.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I tried PC's wacking of the ships data and save game. Game resumed functioning at that point.

I'm rather surprised they are reading in the ship data quite that early. Guess they are presuming that the ship data will never be large enough to cause a slow-down in start up.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I think they read in the ship data at the start of the game so that they can show the ships in the tech tree with the techs that are prerequisites for building each ship.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just ran into a CTD on startup that sounds similar to this one. I'll try wiping the ships and saved game.

I emailed the exception report and saved game to gcbugs.