Saved Mini Dump @ startup - Fixed

I get the same "mini dump" problem, except its during the game, after an hour or two.

try right clicking your mouse on your computer's maine screen and go to new > shortcut > then type in "sinsofasolarempire" and then click ok. im pretty sure this will help. i had the same exsact problem.

Thanks for the input but sadly didn't help.

I tried doing as you said above. But typing in sinsofasolarempire didn't find anything. I then browsed to the correct location. Set it to run as administrator (running vista) but had the same result.

I've also emailed support with the DXdiag file & dumps but have had no reply yet.

Anyone know i quicker way to get in contact?

Yeah i seem to have the same problem.I downloaded the Mars effect Mod and after an hour or 2 my game crashes and i get the mini dump error.Seems to be pretty rare as i put the problem on the mod page itself and no one seems to know what it is or how to fix it.Even the mod designer didnt know what it was.

annoying as i'm yet to even play yet. I read some people with a similar problem but had the problem whilst playing for prolonged times on multilayer. Mine wont even boot up.

Sorry afraid i cant help you with that.Your best bet is probably uninstall and reinstall the game.See if that works.Have you downloaded v1.02

Yeah, I think stardock central downloads you the latest release. I downloaded the patch manually as well to see if it worked. But know. I'll try reinstalling.

Cool let me know how it works out.  

to me it sounds like you have a problem with the intro videos

try disabling by opening the file called "user.setting"

find

ShowIntroMovies TRUE
ShowOpeningCinematic TRUE

change to FALSE

the file can be found here

Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Hey Multianna. Would you have any idea why the same is happening to me,just at different times? Cheers in advance.

Whats your hardware, driver version and OS?

Well I got it working, it was suggested to run in windowed mode from the user settings file. Which works. Odd. I wonder if its a wide screen problem? Going to try fullscreen on debug mode now.

Hardware is
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
2 Gigs DD2 Ram
8800 GTS Nvidia Graphics Card.

OS is
Windows XP professional service pack 2.
By driver version do you mean latest driver for graphics card?Cause i have the latest one

you tired running it windowed mode ?

Well in college at the moment lol but will check when i get back.How do you put it in that mode? Cheers DawZ

by opening the file called "user.setting"

find

VideoIsWindowed FALSE

change to TRUE

the file can be found here

Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

you can then hit maximise to make it full screen. Its a little awkward scrolling as for the top and bottom scroll you have to position the mouse on the edge of the window as opposed to just dragging to the edge of your screen.

I've managed to cope through the tutorial by using the mouse wheel to zoom out. Where ever the cursor is it will then zoom in too. Probbly faster due to the scale of the game. I can say i'm really enjoying it so far.

Think i'll give signle player a bash now before trying multiplayer

this doesnt solve my issue . my game still crashes. I play for 3 hours and now crashes. anyone know what might be?

is it every time that 3 hours have past? also what kind of error message are you getting when the game crashes?

well not every time . happens more like in a part where all players are having big armys and atacking each other.

I have this computer configuration:
4 GB Ram PC 800 MHZ
2600XT 512MB DDR3 (1400Mhz)
X-FI Extreme Gamer (Sound Card)
1,4 TB of Disk size (around 3 disks so i have plenty of space)
10 GB of Virtual Memory Size configured
Using Windows Vista 64 bit

Gives me the Dump message error and i dont know how to solve this.

Same exact problem as the original poster.

Since this is the first time I run the game (just downloaded it off Stardock Central), there is no Setting folder. So no file to edit.

well not every time . happens more like in a part where all players are having big armys and atacking each other.

I have this computer configuration:
2,1 GHz Core 2 Duo 4 MB cache
4 GB Ram PC 800 MHZ
2600XT 512MB DDR3 (1400Mhz)
X-FI Extreme Gamer (Sound Card)
1,4 TB of Disk size (around 3 disks so i have plenty of space)
10 GB of Virtual Memory Size configured
Using Windows Vista 64 bit

Do i need to upgrade anything in my computer to work better and dont give this error?

Gives me the Dump message error and i dont know how to solve this.

(sorry i couldnt edit the other message)

Actually, I was being silly. I found the file now and followed Multianna's suggestion. Had somehow ended up with two separate Ironclad Games folders, one under my username -and- one under "all users".

Cheers

i get a similar minidump error every once and a while, not every time i play, just once and a while and it happens after about 2-4 hours in

my specs:
2.8 GHZ Pentium D
Ati Radeon x1550 512 mb
3 GB RAM

XP media SP2

Well how weird. As oddly as changing the game to window mode got the game to work, all day yesterday without a hitch, this afternoon the game wont load again. Same dump error and same black screen on load up.

Only thing I can think of is it must be a driver problem. Will have to see if I can get one of those modified drivers, might work.

Support still hasn't got back too me.

i have update of 102 installed now my save wont work :((((