Crashes upon loading a map

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I purchased Sins of a Solar Empire + Entrenchment quite a while ago. I recently have began playing the game again. Initially, the game ran flawlessly... Not a single problem (Single player and multiplayer). As of recently, though, the game freezes and gives me a Minidump error whenever I try and load a map. The game launches perfectly fine, but as soon as I try and start a match it crashes. I do not understand why this would randomly stop working. I have not changed anything about my computer to cause this.

My system Specs:

EVGA 790i Ultra Mobo
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5Ghz
EVGA 9800GTX+ Graphics cards (SLI)
8GB DDR3 RAM 1600Mhz
1TB Seagate HDD
250GB Maxtor HDD
1000W PC Power and Cooling PSU
Windows Vista 64-bit Ultimate

I have the graphics maxed out in-game and it ran flawlessly, never had a framerate dip. I have no Mods installed either. I recently updated my Nvidia drivers to the latest version hoping that would somehow solve my issue. It did not. I also tried reinstalling the game through impulse and that did not help either.

Any idea what could be the problem?

technical
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

does it crash on particular maps?

if so which maps?

harpo

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

does any other program give problems?

if not then try  verifying the sins/entrenchment installation

if yes then it could be ram causeing the problem, shut down the computer, remove & re-install ram, if problem persists the test ram with a ramtest program(could be a faulty ram stick), also might be an oxidized connector so  unplug and re-plug all the connectors to hdd's.

hope this helps

harpo

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Verified installation and there was nothing wrong. Reinstalled RAM and there wasn't a problem. I don't understand why the game ran fine a few days ago and does not run now. Every other game I own runs fine! :'(

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

what other software was installed between when it ran and now?

can the software be disabled?

have you done a virus scan/rootkit scan?

getting as puzzled as you are

harpo

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I just uninstalled Counter Strike Source which was the only thing I installed following Sins. It doesn't make sense because I have had them installed previously and they worked fine. I just did a virus scan and found nothing. The problem still remains. :(

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

we are down to the desperation ideas, ie re-install dotnet to 3.5, un-install sins & re-install sins.

my next recommendation is the dotnet install from windowsupdate

harpo