yea same ere that happened to me and om a med map sometimes u cant scroll to look at all the stars in the system

i didnt get 1 it just crashes and dosent do anything it worked fine with the priveous versions of the beta my pc is xp

how do i find the mini dump which folder is it in? man i lost a fabulous game i played for 5 hours had a raid i had to lead in eq2 so i had to save, came back after raid tried to load the game, same thing happened as yesterday on trying to load .. screen was totally frozen...ohh man a faulous game going on with 2 terran 1 ice and some asteriods and i am loving the new way of building up the tech tree and capital ships, much nicer.. now if we can just expand the tech tree too:))

this has happened to me as well, I have sent the minidump file to minidump@ironcladgames.com. hopefully you find it useful. Something that I noticed that seems to connect all of my crashes is that something graphical changed just prior to each crash. These changes have been everything from special Fx to simply zooming out to the icon lvl quickly.

same thing happen to me when loading a saved game. the crash just freeze the game graphics and keyboard input (no ctrl-alt-del), though music and mouse cursor still work.

I'm getting a similar error too -- my game freezes, and the mouse / music works but nothing else in game does. My OS appears to be running uninterupted in the background, i just can't get at it with the game in the way. Hitting the "power" button shuts the computer down, and I can see that ctrl-alt-delete opened the task manager and stuff like that, but I just can't see through the game.

I'm not getting any minidumps, unfortunately, to send them in with. I do have a save game where it occurs consistently -- every time I try to load it.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Geforce 8800GTX (beta drivers for Bioshock)
2 Gigs DDR2 533 ram

I have DXDiag available for the asking.

I've seen this too, no minidump, like Ron. Mine loads enough of the game so I can see the skybox and the phase lanes (with culture), but nothing else.

Beta 2 never froze, but now beta3 consistently freezes on my machine, after playing for awhile, and while loading certain saves of games that had previously crashed. While soase seems hosed, my os is fine and I can kill off soase, reload the game, and have it freeze again.

Game loads full graphics and sound as others reported though I am running windows server 2003 x86. I too have the beta bioshock drivers from nvidia that *might* be an issue but I doubt it seeing how I can start a new game and it runs fine for awhile before freezing again.

dxdiag and save game available by request.

Fair enough. The latest version then.

same thing happened to me just had to start from a previous autosave to get it to work.

I just did a little impromptu testing of this bug since my computer seemed to replicate it every time I played. I played on the same galaxy size (small) I have been, with the same AI's (3 Hard) and marauders, flagships, high resources, and bounty at start all on. The only two things that I changed were that I didn't change anything about the empire window (i.e. don't show enemy, allied planets), and i fielded one less cap ship than I had in the previous games (4 caps[kol, sova, akkan, dunov] as oppossed to 5 [had the Marza last time]). My game didn't crash at all and seemed to run more smoothly than ever before even with some rather large fleet battles and multiple battles at the same time.

Could either of these two differences be the problem or am I just crazy. I have no idea why the empire window or one more cap ship would cause a crash but they were the only things that were different this time. I also made sure that I had the same programs running in the background and my computer had been on for the same amount of time as it had for the other crashes.

I've run into this over 10 times this weekend, I submitted a ticket and have been sending the smartex dumps and the dr watson dumps when they happen. I've got corrupt game saves also, load it and it goes to the initial game start screen but it's frozen there. I've found if you wait it out (game in full screen mode) you'll get a ctd in about 90 seconds and your pc back. For me, it also wipes out my desktop background, for some reason. Smartex has an empty .dmp file and a short .cra, so I guess it's not quite set for sins and dr watson only gets a dump file once in a while. It _seems_ to do it the majority of the time when zooming in and out, maybe 75%. I've got the latest nvidia drivers (xp) for bioshock, so they're beta but I haven't run into anything else (bioshock, the new moh demo, coh, gc2, fear or hl2)crashing. I haven't made through a whole game yet without crashing, but a recent save usually gets things back on track. I just forget not to zoom in or out in battles (or maybe many ships moving).

pek

Thats the one I have.



Thats the one I almost wish I had

Edit:

Stupid question. Has the save-game freeze occured on any autosaves? I haven't seen it there. I'm wondering if its linked to the (now seperate) stats files?