[Fix]Bad Minidump

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Running into minidumps immedietly starting the game outside of Impulse.  Also whenever selecting map designer.

*Addendum.  Whenever Impulse is closed a minidump happens as well.  Such as through alt-tabing already during the game.  I can't seem to locate where the Minidumps are stored at, even typing in the whole file path yields nothing past Administrators documents. which have been searched high and low.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I can start the game outside Impulse, but both the map designer and changing the map lists over to custom are causing a runtime error resulting in a CTD.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

You probably need to delete your custom maps in both the sins root\galaxy and appdata\galaxy folders.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the speedy replies. I'll try that.  I might be slightly more irritated if the Mass Effect 2 teaser hadn't come out today!

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Can't seem to find what you've mentioned.  Deleted any non official maps from the Galaxy folder,  Not seeing anything like that in the AppData folder.  Now the minidump is happening when it goes from scenario select.  Whenever it passes the Large Scenarios, either by right clicking from small, or left clicking cycling through small/medium/Large/CRASH

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Try the galaxy folder in either:

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

You may need to enable visibility of hidden directories.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Found that slippery folder finally, if it helps the other guy.  Run a file/folder search in your main storage drive (Probably C) for Galaxy.  Pick the folers and get rid of any custom maps.  This worked on the fly, I even had entrenchment running still.

 

Thanks, even though I never modded anything, the folder wasn't showing up. For whatever reason with maps I havn't seen since I got the Original sins a few months ago.  But it seems cleared up, thanks a ton.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Yep, I just came across your other post - I've now done that and it seems to be working fine (I stashed them in another folder until the new setup gets put into place).  Thanks, Blair!