SINS not responding

1 minute not responding period before SINS load

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Hi recently I have problem that is becoming really annoying.

While loading SINS (all 3 versions) before company logos come up game has a black screen. And lately that black screen freezes for about a minute every time before company logos start showing up. Task manager says game is not responding. As I said game starts without me doing anything but after 1 min not responding period.

Now same thing was happening before on same system (no updates or recent installs other than web cam software - but it doesn't run in the background) but it usually happened from 1 - 10 sec and never longer and time varied. 1-10 sec problems occurred on same version of SINS I'm running now (latest). So there is no changes in game update.

And yes I did try to reinstall the game from scratch. Same problems occur.

I have rig that goes over the top with Sins.

My spec:

i7-920

6 GB 1333 Mhz ram

2x GTX 285 1GB ram in SLI

ASUS XONAR 1.3HDAV (all audio video goes trough it)

300 GB free space of HD

Win7 Home Premium

technical
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Might try defragging.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Try navigating to the following folder:

XP:      C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting
Vista/7: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Try moving the 'user.settings' and 'diplomacy.user.settings' files to a different location, run the game again, and see if the issues persist.

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

When I ran defrag program said that disk was defragmented just 2%. Did defragmentation anyway but problem persists.

 

I did try Rosco_P solution and it does help and game loads in approximately same time as before. 1-10 sec.

Now i wonder why didn't re-install helped. Shouldn't settings go to release settings.

And after changing settings back to the way I like them game loads much faster.

 

Thank you for your fast and effective help it is very appreciated. 

Greg

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

It's actually common practice for newer games not to delete settings like that when the game is uninstalled, just in case you want to reinstall at a later time.  That way everything is still how you like it, with all of your saved games, etc.

Glad you're back up and running, though! :grin:

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

It's actually common practice for newer games not to delete settings like that when the game is uninstalled, just in case you want to reinstall at a later time.
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And that's the reason why every now and then format C: is a good thing to do. :blush: