Game froze and laged tremendously minidump failed

what files do you want me to send? logs?

When i got the beta a few days ago it was working just great, it was not lagging at all. Yesterday the game would seem to "buffer" a little and lag while it did that then be working just fine until I exited. This "buffer" would only last about 6 to 10 seconds.
I opened the game today about 3 minutes ago and opened my saved game, and then clicked the invert y camera control, now when i push the mouse forward it would rotate differently than before, obviously. But Then the game became incredibly laggy and ended up frozen after 1 minute of extreme lag where I could not select ships or anything, only rotate the view after a few seconds of lag. Then i was trying to minimize the window until it finally minimized itself and gave me this MiniDump Failed failed to save dump file. ('a device attached to the system is not functioning')
c:\documents and settings....\sinsofasolarempire\mimidump\sins of a solar empire.exe[v3.5][09.07][11.00].dmp

if you want to me send a log file, just tell me where to look. I am going to try to change that option back to the default of not "invert y camera control" or whatever the exact wording was.
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I disabled the option of the rotating camera view and this time the behind menu animations were a lot smoother than the first time, something i forgot to mention. Unfortunately the game still crashed and this time the sound started kind of "echoing"? it would repeat itself in small chunks, but it was not working and froze so i had to end process
How do i reinstall the beta incase that fixes anything?
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How do i reinstall the beta incase that fixes anything?


Use SDC to uninstall, then reinstall.
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Others have reported problems with crashing shortly/immediately after loading a save as well--if this is the same problem, then it's already been fixed for the upcoming hotfix.
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thanks for the info guys, yeah it was just when you load a saved game, i started a new game no problem. then i save it and quit :/
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can u bring the hot fix out soon cos id like to enjoy your brill game but its kind of a let down wen u win a big battle and it freezes and crashes.
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Same thing happening to me. I have already downloaded the latest beta.
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its only happened to me during a new game...very annoying but I didn't change views or axises...think it was because I had a lot of ships entering a new star system and an immediate battle.

I re-started the game through autosave and the same thing happened.

had to reboot pc and go back on through autosave and it was fine. but I didn't zoom in to the star for a while until all my ships had arrived.