SOLUTION for Vista crashes

read up

from Sins Forums
Hello, as of my recent post about that i'm not getting this game to run from a save game... but it runs well the first time i generate galaxy... i also had this issue in multi player... the thing is that my galaxy is huge and after 5-7mins of play i just crash.. so i did not know what to do.. and a friend of my suggested me to download this patch

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940105

so i downloaded it and installed.. now game runs smoothly(i also saw ppl complaining they had flashing screens during the game.. i had this also.. after this patch it's gone! =) )

gl&hf
technical
93,134 views 138 replies
Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
If only it worked for other games..
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Thx for the info! (hope it works) :)

X
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
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!
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Sometimes I get a flashing screen when my ships are phase jumping. I wonder if this patch would resolve that.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Glad I found this, I'm putting together a Quad core PC and running Vista 64x Ultimate soon.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
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.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
^ Same exact problem. (7300 GS, Vista 32 Premium, 3.4DC w/2gigs).
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

I ran into the freezing stuff on my laptop with an nVidia Quadro on it on Vista. I resolved it by turning the bump mapping and a couple other settings from highest to high.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
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!
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
A couple people from another thread mentioned rolling WAY back to the following driver fixed this problem. I'm going to try it out.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

A couple people from another thread mentioned rolling WAY back to the following driver fixed this problem. I'm going to try it out.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html
End of quote


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.
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
I get that same error with the Visual C++ runtime libraries the application has requested to terminate in an unusual way. I had played for 2 1/2 hours before getting it though. Why does it have to crash I hope my game saves still work from autosave or I am going to be disappointed.
My specs are:
AMD Athlon X2 64 FX-62 2.8Ghz
2GB Pny XLR8 Gaming memory
M2N-Sli Deluxe
Nvidia Pny GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
2X 320GB HDD
600W PSU
I have never run into this error before while playing a game.
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

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!
End of quote


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?

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top
I must also add that playing the game for an hour or two it also crashes with the runtime error everyone else is getting. I am running a clean Vista system with 4 gigs of memory and nvidia 256mb card. (Dell XPS M1530 MAXED OUT). It is very frustrating. I hope they find a fix or add it in a new patch. Is there a way to see a log file after this crash happens.

Thank you,
Shannan

P.S. I applied the microsoft patch at the beginning of this post but it said I didnt need it.
Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

Vista Service Pack 1 fixes a lot of issues.
End of quote


I'll believe it when I see it. I've heard the opposite, it actually causes MORE issues and only fixes... *looks up the article* about 17 percent of existing issues.
Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top
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.
Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top
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.
Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top
Setting to high (not highest) straight across the board worked. No more crashes ATM. There is a big noticeable difference between to two settings and I hope it is addressed shortly for Vista 64 users.
Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top
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...