Game "not responding" after loading a saved game

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After playing for two to three hours and gaining a half-dozen to ten planets (planetoids) or so, and having a few fleets on the map, I begin having problems with reloading saved games. Often, after clicking the "Load" button, the game will freeze up. Going into Windows Vista's Task Manager shows Sins of a Solar Empire as "Not Responding". I'm running my system with 4GB ram, 1.9MB video memory, Radeon HD 3200 graphics card and 2.1 GHz dual core AMD Turion. The game should not freeze up like that with reloading. I find myself having to just shut down the game via Task Manager and completely restart it.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Umm 1.9mb of video memory?

Is that a typo? That little video memory shouldn't be able to run Sins at all, or could be the root of your error, Vi$ta not allocating enough v mem to the game to reload all the textures?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The current Entrenchment beta is not very optimized and this sort of thing is known to happen. I'd wait until the next build comes out (hopefully this week) and if it continues to happen update the post. I'm assuming IC would try to do some optimizations on it for this next build, anyway.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

You're right, I had a typo. It's 1.9GB of video memory (not 1.9MB). I will wait to see if the next build is optimized and performs better. Thanks.