Okay, against my better judgement, I bought Diplomacy.  Not because I give a flying rat's ass about Diplomacy, but just for the simple reason of trying to give myself a higher probability of getting an online game at some point in the future (the Entrenchment lobby has been exceedingly sparse).  Side note here - one has to wonder if this was one of the dev's strats.  They get your money even if you DON'T want Diplomacy, because they have split the small community up even smaller, so people pay just to jump ship to the product that might have more player counts.

Anyway, back on topic.  Got into a game.  After a while, my game minidumped.  In fact, it happened when I was toggling the colored skyboxes on and off, in an attempt to get them to come on or to get the background color to change.  I figured it was a desync, but when I reloaded, the other players were still playing the game - they hadn't desynched.

At any rate. got into another game.  Shortly after, I crashed again - this time when I was clicking on a structure.  Again, it wasn't a desync.

My graphics are turned down, so that shouldn't be the issue.  In fact, these are the same settings I've been using for Entrenchment, but I don't get these kinds of crashes on that game.

Another anomaly, which may or may not be related:  My planets are transluscent.  I can see through them to the background behind them.

Has anyone else had problems with crashes that don't seem to be desyncs?  Does anyone else have transluscent planets?

Thanks.