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Single player still broken with minidumps

By on August 8, 2012 4:08:25 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Toddwp

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Are they working on this problem? The game is really unplayable at least for single player

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August 8, 2012 9:52:10 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

It's been working just fine for me, the only time I've ever experienced minidumps were when I playing with the Distant Stars mod (which is in alpha, hence the crashy shenanigans).

I've played from 1v1 to massive 10 player ffa on the random huge maps with multiple solar systems.

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August 9, 2012 1:13:27 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I haven't experienced any minidumps outside of when I'm fiddling with mods and do something that breaks the game.

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August 9, 2012 3:17:04 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I have had an incredible amount of minidumps since the last update. I really hope they will be addressed in the next update...

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August 14, 2012 10:36:31 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Yep, I'm getting minidumps an hour or two after starting a single player game on hard.

 

i7

Radeon 7870

16 gigs of RAM

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August 15, 2012 4:32:41 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

I don't have any "mods" and I'm crashing every game while playing solo 6 player map with the AI set to Hard.

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August 15, 2012 11:09:57 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I don't know what's causing them, but in the past my Sins game would play perfectly fine...until Rebellion came out...ON STEAM. I don't know what's going on, but I'm blaming Steam, lol.

EDIT: About the Auto-Saves, do I just reload my save file that I saved manually before? Or will it just load up the last manual save?

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August 16, 2012 12:41:34 AM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

Well I reload the last auto-save to play the closest point to where my game crashes. Doesn't do much good though because it just crashes again at or around the same point again, and again, and again....

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August 16, 2012 1:52:24 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Once a game minidumps, unless it's dumping to due something caused by a mod, and thus something that can be fixed, you may as well kiss it good bye and email the minidump to SD, as it's gone with the wind.

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August 16, 2012 9:57:54 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I got a response a while back from them about it, a fix will be in the next patch at the end of the month, the only way i could avoid a mini dump and keep playing was to turn my graphics down to about medium, and that bought me some time. I also changed tactics after reloading, i noticed when there was alot of action going on in my gravity wells when it would minidump, so i just gave orders to my units from the zoomed out camera position.

 

it sucks but if you have a good game going and dont want to lose it, try that till you get to the next autosave point and go back to playing like normal.

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