Agree ..game runs beautifully. Check your drivers/ defrag/ and uninstall and reinstall both games. Final versions won't run correctly if you don't get rid of all prior betas. Don't be so ready to blame the software developers before you " check your own backyard". I get so tired of reading posts about people blaming the game(s) before they check everything on their computer first. geez.

You will need to manually remove the game folder, and run the fix below before you'll be able to re-install.

Go to C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire (or where ever you installed the game) and delete the main Sins folder.

Once you do this, download the file below (follow the link in IE, as other browsers will simply display it as a text file):

http://sd.stardock.com/curthendzell/sins_entrenchment_fix.reg

Save the file to your Desktop and run it from your machine. Then, reboot your PC and go back to Impulse and try installing the base game. Make sure it installs to 1.15 version, test it out before then installing Entrenchment.

did you try turning down the shader setting? (atleast i think thats what i was told) anyhow i was told that if the shaders are up too high you'll run out of ram (idk if its vram or just system ram) and the game will minidump.

For anyone else with a blank screen and a minidump at the very first install of Sins then Entrenchment.....  Entrenchment does not automatically update Sins to 1.15 (at least it did not on my puter)....  You will need to download 1.15 patch, apply it to sins... then Entrencment works fine... no need for the reg Fix for that-uninstall/reinstall.

where is the patch at I can't seem to find it?

"Side-stepping"? Understand, Stardock is not the game Developer and we also have to wait until IronClad patch the game.

As I said before, send your Mini-dump to IronClad, they are the Devs and are handling those issues.

Just to make things even better, The new update doesn't run pervious saved games. Go fig. every time there's an update you got to start all over again.

 Since I tried to just update of course it crashed, but tried to reinstall no luck. old game save just dumped on load. Started new game so far so good only been about 15 min. though. But I feel much better knowing I'm not one of the few who programed and played games in Dos.

I'm in the 14th hour of a massive 10 player game, no mini-dumps.

Stridefar

I've tried to start new 10 player hard game, But after about 1 hour it minidumped, Tried going into windowed mode and turning down graphics no luck.

I've run all dxdiag and comes back fine so I sent ironclad the error report, game save, and so on. All you get is the same message that is automated in response. It's getting to be a pain after ten min. now with these constant minidumps and no real solutions to the problem. The game is great and would be even better if the could reslove these problems.

Or you can wait and finish your current game and then update.

The Sins website warns you that this will happen.

Hey all,

         First of all i know pretty much squat about all this stuff, ie minidumps etc. I know people are saying that the programs at fault because their machines are almighty and can probably cure cancer with a couple more gig and they know this because they clean their machines every hour, defrag, spyware etc etc etc. BUT... where i agree there is obviously A problem, if it's with the programme...... why isn't EVERYONE getting this fault?? My PC sucks ass. 1.6 dual core, 1x 9500 GT 512mb, 2GB Corsair RAM, 320 GB HD and i'm running Vista Home Prem 32bit. So you'll all agree my machine cannot cure cancer. Unless i'm really lucky. (unlikely) I have never ever had any minidumps. Long games, short games, big, small or online. F**K my PC can only handle the medium maps with a few players and even then it sometimes runs sooooo bad i gotta turn down the settings just to try and stop the slowdown. I can play with the settings on med/high on my own but i only have a 1MB connection so online i have to turn everything down to prevent LAG from online play and slowdown of my inferior (non cancer curing) machine. Maybe everyone out there who does have minidumps all have one thing in common? 64 BIT Vista? Graphics card? i dunno. like i said i know s**t. But i find it hard to believe it's the programs fault when out of possibly hundreds of thousands of different low grade (game boy like) PC's and cancer curing jobs only a few 1000 actually have the problem. If someone with a bit of knowledge on these things, starts a thread, I dunno MINIDUMP DATA COLLECTOR S**T, or words to that effect. then everyone who has had, worked around, is still having these problems can copy their DXDIAG info onto the one thread and compare all this stuff it would probably give the DEV's something to look at and maybe more knowledgable people could rule out some stuff too. Anyway it's only an opinion so don't go mental all you cancer curers out there. i paid £300/$500 for my complete machine and i can play sins/trench 24/7. Take care.

still i wouldnt complain about ur computer. and u bit**ing isnt helping us. dont know how your comment helps anyone.  and btw its SRTEST.COM if you didnt read my reply to your question. great site for testing system capability of games.

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