Edix, could you give your system specs and make sure there's no background programs?

Actually a lot of my friends ahve been getting tons of minidumps since 1.03. I haven't, though.

email:

support@stardock.com (I think)

System specs,
Attach Dxdiag report and minidumps..
OS details,

etc etc

Is probably best thing to do since it's most likely a game problem.

we had lockup's in 1.02 in MP (after playing for a while), but haven't tried 1.03 yet.

i have emailed support everything they need, no there are no programs runing

1.0 1.02 1.03, it hasnt matterd its been there day one for me

i have, it has yet to get anything done

Personally, I've found the Prime95 (Prime95) running in stress test mode is a much better memory tester than Memtest. I've sat there and watched memtest OK a stick of RAM that I have known has been faulty after 10 hours of testing it. Prime 95 picked up the fault in abut 10 minutes.

Edix I would defiantly do the mem test with memtest86 and the Prime95 just to cover your bases and I know this is going to sound weird but have you defragged lately? I have been working on a mod and when one of my .mesh files go corrupt it caused a minidump issue as well, of course this only happened when I activated the mod and it ran fine if not slow with out it activated and just the default game type. When I did finally decided to do a defrag it was something like 20%, I had not kept up on it and I knew it. If that is the case for you as well go to http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html this is an excellent program and it will defrag on fly (I just found it out after my little bout with defrag a few weeks ago).

I also have this running on both a Vista Media Center Edition PC (Home Premium) & my gaming rig with XP Pro with no problems. When a friend of mine comes over to play (yes I bought 2 copies no one freak out) with multiplayer or single player we have no problems. If your having problems past the mem test & defrag post what your sys specs are get ver # for your drivers and post it up here or email it to support (I would do both) and maybe we can help narrow it down for you.

Yes, I have quite a lot of experience with Macs, and bootcamp (Windows on Mac), as I work in QA porting games form PC to Mac. The only problem I have with it is that it can cost x3 or more for a Mac than a hand built PC. I rather hand build my computer. It's just a personal preference.

I have had crashes in all versions of the game. Only in MP. It happens the exact same way every time.

But, i will try bloom. I doubt that it would only affect MP and not SP modes though.

Information Update

Today I used the Defrag program mentioned in an earlier post. And used Registry Mechanic to fix/optimize my registry.

After doing this I logged in to Ironclad online. I proceeded to join games. But this time instead of minidumping I was able to play for about 10-15 mins and then everyone in the game would crash/minidump. But I would not. This is not the same behavior as before. As before I would crash/minidump. I do not know if before everyone else crashed too. I do not think so though. I do not know if this is just a coincidence that I used these programs or if this behavior is the same as before but just rarer and I never saw it. But It happened every time.

Hosting a game still produces the same results as before. After about 5-10 mins I crash/Minidump.

I have not tested LAN yet.

Also, Sorry to everyones game I crashed. Took me a while to figure out what was going on and then about 2 more games to confirm that it was me. I stopped joining games after that.

If someone at Stardock/Ironclad would like to host a game and have me join it so they could get the minidump file form that side I would be happy to oblige.

Have you tried completely reinstalling the game? If you think it's your client crashing the games, it's worth a shot in case something is messed up.