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game freezes around 1 minute from loading up

February 9, 2008 3:30:49 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I bought a digital version and downloaded it, updated w/ 1.02. After about a minute of playing - tutorials, single player, or just looking around the options menu - the game freezes, I can not alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del and close it, but I have to turn off the comp and try again. I tried uninstalling the game and re-downloading, and re-patching - same thing. I am running XP on AMD turion 64, 2.41GHz, 2.00GB RAM, dual 512MB NVIDIA geforce go 7900 GS(updated drivers) Any suggestions...?
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Reply #1 March 6, 2008 6:40:00 PM
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Same with me
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Reply #2 March 6, 2008 7:03:09 PM
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you tried to lower the graphic settings?

Try as low as possible and work your way up
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Reply #3 March 6, 2008 7:10:26 PM
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I start the game, then about 5-10 seconds in it freezes my computer
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Reply #4 March 6, 2008 9:11:32 PM
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Yes, I have lowered the graphics, I have tried every graphic settings, I have played it in windowed mode, I have switched SLI off, and back on again, I have changed screen resolutions (normally run 1440x900ish). I stopped playing, hopeing for a patch or something to fix this.

Haha I cant believe its been almost a month and no updates to fix this. The couple of minutes that I got to play look amazing, especially with all the graphics maxed out...it runs smoothly, but then it freezes. I dont get it...
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Reply #5 March 6, 2008 9:12:50 PM
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Would the download version have anything to do with it?? Maybe the hard copies do not have this issue?
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Reply #6 March 6, 2008 9:17:12 PM
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They're the exact same files.
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Reply #7 March 6, 2008 9:26:58 PM
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to Yarlen or anyother Stardock moderator, what other information would you need to help solve my issue?
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PoorManDSO
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Reply #8 March 6, 2008 9:44:46 PM
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USE NVIDIA DRIVER 97.46 - it is only driver working properly w/ certain machines right now. Nvidia will be releasing a Sins patch (new driver) later this month that should fix the issue (or @ least help w/ issue)
here is a link to Nvidia driver (32bit) =
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html
and 64bit =
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_97.46.html

HOPE THIS HELPS

PoorMan Out!!
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Reply #9 March 7, 2008 1:07:05 PM
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I have this exact same issue - however I'm running Windows XP SP2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - it seems my machine has problems with Stardock games, as I have a identical issue when I try to play GalCiv 2.

Thanks!
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Reply #10 March 7, 2008 8:42:34 PM
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I have the same problem as well on a Windows XP SP2. I have dual 512MB NVIDIA Geforce go 7900 GS's as well.
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Reply #11 March 10, 2008 5:51:26 PM
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PoormanDSO,

Thanks, but I have WINXP SP2...guess Ill wait till the end of the month...
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