As a matter of fact, i had this several times. And i did not even mess with the game files, playing for unlocked races, or anything. I had run-time error while playing for TEC before, and yesterday, as the 0.76 version downloaded, i tried my Advent Loyalist save from last weekend, and after perhaps 20-30 minutes of play, the game crashed to desktop. It happen very fast this time, but i reckon i saw there the RunTime Error table to flash there for a moment (before it would stay there and i could click the OK button)... there is sadly no minidump, when this happens, for me to send to the devs. I was under impression before, it was kinda connected to Antivir updating, as it there was strange coincidence, but this was not true yesterday anymore, so do not really see any reason for the crash, seems kinda random.

That said, i have both my CPU and GPU overclocked (although only mildly and do not seem to suffer any issues with other apps or games), but you never know, it may be somehow related. I could overclock my gtx590 from 607 to 775 Mhz and it would be stable for an hour while rendering picture with Octane Render using both GPU cores to full, but it would crash  on 720 MHz using one core only while playing StarCraft 2 within several minutes.  

I got this as well, it was happening to me with the initial beta, but stopped when we got beta 1a. It didn't happen at all either when we got that build accidentally(0.75). But, now with the last update(0.76, beta 2), I am getting it again.

I will try and get a screen shot of the error next time it happens, it is not a dump or anything so I don't think any type of report is created.

For me, Rebellion also saves a smaller minidump in the program directory, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sins of a solar empire rebellion", so it may be worth checking there.

I've had this type of crash happen only a couple of times, although not since I noticed the above, so there may well be no crash file.

If there's a save game that replicates this crash, then send it to rebellionbeta@stardock.com, see https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/418918.

BTW: A note to the devs - the above forum topic needs updating with the new (v0.76) locations of the save directory.

ill try turing down the graphics and see what happens on my system. save games do not recreate the crash; which is good, because you can pickup from where you left off.

Bump for great justice, as this problem persists. Also not finding a crash dump file anywhere.

Holy crap.. it's the map I made causing the error.

I tried a number of things. Windowed, different graphical settings. Nothing.

Then I just took the map out of the galaxy forge folder. Wham. Error gone.

Now I wonder what I should do.. submit the map to the devs??

Thoughts?

Where exactly are you getting the error? Does it happen sporadically during gameplay, or in one very repeatable incident?

I haven't noticed a common condition.  Maybe with one exception, it usually happens when I play on a large/huge map and after roughly 2-2.5 hours of play.  But, it does sound like from other posts that there are other causes possibly.

Every multiplayer game i get runtime error or minidump ¬¬ not fun

If you have a repeatable method of reproducing the C++ runtime crash, then send that info to the devs too.

One known cause is to request an allied ship attack a hostile ship which is in a star's grav well.