If only it worked for other games..

well it worked for meh

THANKS FOR THE FIX!! IT WORKS!!! On top of that I can now enable SLI, play in 2560 x 1600 resolution with everything maxed and all effects turned on! Thanks the game looks awesome in its fully glory!

Glad I found this, I'm putting together a Quad core PC and running Vista 64x Ultimate soon.

I got an nvidia 7650GS with Vista Home Premium 32 bit and this did absolutely nothing for me. In early game I'm still getting flashing HUDs, a bit later to the game my driver starts shutting down and restarting every now and then, and when I've explored a single solar system and built enough units the game freezes for good and the driver keeps shutting down and restarting continously.

I have been having the same problem as you, the whole freezing thing. Does the link up above work for this problem?

ChairmanOfAwesome

First off, great name... second, no, that patch does not solve the freezing issue. I've had it installed since October and I've been getting the freezing glitch since the day I install this game.

I will try Frogboy's suggestion, but that seems sort of odd if you ask me. He has a Quadro card and has to tone down his settings. No offense Frog, but you got that Stardock by your name, are you a dev? If so, wouldn't you guys be working on a way to fix this instead of turning settings down from max? To be honest, this is new to me, seeing devs and such in the forums. Over at EA in the Battlefield forums, you have a better chance of running into Jessica Alba at a family cookout than talking to one of the Dice/EA guys... so to me, the fact that devs are on here is absolutely fantastic!

this fixed the freezing, black screen of death crashes for me. but has caused a c++ visual runtime error after about 2 hours of gameplay.

Using a q6600 with vista 32bit and an nvidia 7800gs.

LOL - Frogboy is not just a dev, he's Stardock's founder! (Brad Wardell - he also goes by Draginol here at times). How's that for company presence in the forums?

Vista Service Pack 1 fixes a lot of issues.

I fixed my problem last night. I turned all the effects to High instead of highest. Also turned 4x down to 2x. I play the game in 8x speed or 6x speed. I think what was happening to me was the video card was over heating. Even though it is a top of the line Nvidia. (GeForce 8600M GT)

I had no crashes after I did this.

And I am now truly addicted to this wonderful game.

The beta used to flash and my graphics card would stop briefly... the system would recover and I could continue gaming until it happened so many times the game would crash/halt. I figured this was the beta so it that's what happens.

Now with the game being released I was able to play much longer (most of an afternoon) until my 2 star galaxy was pretty busy (~40 planets) when suddenly I get a bunch of flashes and the video drivers stop all over again until I return to desktop. I already downloaded this windows patch during the beta and yes I have the latest DirectX drivers and nVidia drivers. I'm running a 2.66ghz dual core with a Geforce 7900 why in the world am I getting video driver stopping errors? Yes it's not the latest video card but it still should work just fine.

I have not had these issues myself *knock on wood* but I know that at start up I let the game "decide" my visual settings for me (or are they already set at certain values out of the box?). Just for reference sake, I'm running a Quad core (2.4ghz), NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and 3gb of ddr2 ram...