Oh not that one again. Are your drivers up to date?

This error is usually not game-specific, I used to have it happen in WiC, Hellgate London, etc. It seems to be an issue with Nvidia.

I remember IC said back in beta they had a trouble ticket open with Nvidia about it.

I bought and downloaded the game a few hours ago. Been playing ever since. I must say that after the turutorials I was enjoying my first (small universe) game. That is, untill it freezed up during the second autosave. Had to reboot to get my computer working again. Alt-tab or ctl-alt-delete all didn't work.

I've got a brand new system, including a amd phenom quad core processor, the 8800ultra geforce card (here might be the before mentioned problem with nvidia, altough i have downloaded the latest nvidia driver the other day, 4gig of ram and running it all on a 64bit version of Vista.

Hope this helps the dev's and maybe someone has a solution for avoiding the problem.

Best Regards,
Ramage.

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mine was doing a bit of a freeze for 2-3 secs then resume so i turned down the graphics a little bit (from highest to just high, and they still look amazing) and the problem went away. running it on a 3.0 Ghz Dual Core Pentium D, with a ATE X1650 video card. so maybe droping the graphics level a notch or so will help ya?

I have also had the Nvidia driver freeze, and yes my driver is up to date. we just need to be patient so that the Devs and Nvidia can work out a solution. I have faith in SD and Ironclad and know that a little patients is all we need.   

Well; Tymestrike, it seems like you've come up with a temp solution. 've been playing for about 45min now, with all hte detailsettings set to high instead of highest. Eventhough my system shouldn't have a problem with the highest, seeing it is top of the line, the problem does seem to go away. So probably there is a bug somewhere in the highest features.

yup, same problem here too, it is frustrating but definitely not a show-stopper (yet)

Specs:
AMD X2 4200+, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7800gtx (latest whql drivers) and Vista 32bit.

The only frame rate issue I get other than this is the first time a texture/object appears as it is loaded in. Once I've seen it once I no longer get a stutter.

I have a suggestion on this:

Turn the planet detail on effects to HIGH from HIGHEST. I think that will fix it. If not, let me know. I am pretty sure it is specific to one of the settings being set to highest and nVidia's drivers.

Frogboy has 2 nVidia boxes

The 171.16 Nvidia drivers fixed my problem on Vista x64. Hopefully they'll put out a finalized version of it, as it is not exactly complete yet.

My game is also crashing. After a variable amount of time the game freezes and the screen goes back. Sometimes the game will return and it continues but other times the game crashes and I get a windows error that my video card has stopped working but it recovered and I get a minidump error. Turning the settings to high from highest did NOT help this problem.

ok i have freezing problem myself sadly! i play for 20-50 minutes when the game just freezes with the audio also stucking, only solution to manually reboot. i thought it would be my graphics card so i loaded medieval 2 on high to highest graphics. played for a couple of hours then loaded dungeon&dragons online also in full graphics for another hour. no problems at all. so it must be SoaE problem i believe. is there a final that if you lower to high the problem fixes?

I just played for a good few hours with no freezing after turning everything down to high (except the planet details as I like them at highest) and also had bloom turned off.

I got pwned by the AI instead .

Continuing to experiment, I turned all of my settings up to the *highest* and enjoyed my longest session before the blackout/crash. Maybe I'll go try those Nvidia Beta drivers now ...