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Constant Crashing

April 16, 2014 2:35:02 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hey guys,

Sadly I am experiencing constant crashing in Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion. I have tried several installs without any luck. All my drivers are up to date and there are no issues with any other program other than this game. I can't tell you what seems to cause a crash, rather it randomly happens constantly, could be 10mins into a game or an hour. Usually the crashes seem to have something to do with the fmod.dll file.

Anyone know how to resolve this issue?

Oh and just incase, my pc specs are as follows

i7-960 @ 4.1ghz

16gb ddr3 ram

GTX 780ti

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Reply #1 April 16, 2014 2:39:39 PM
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Why do you think the fmod.dll file is responsible?

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Reply #2 April 16, 2014 2:39:55 PM
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Try verifying steam cache integrity.

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Reply #3 April 16, 2014 3:04:29 PM
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Quoting GoaFan77,
reply 1

Why do you think the fmod.dll file is responsible?

During the crashes when it says so and so has an encountered an unexpected error or something it mentions in the more details section that fmod.dll was at fault.

Quoting RagnorakEviscerator,
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Try verifying steam cache integrity.

Have already tried this in addition to reinstalling.

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Reply #4 April 16, 2014 3:52:21 PM
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That's the dll for the sound system. Try updating your sound drivers.

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Reply #5 April 16, 2014 5:32:55 PM
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If you run in dev mode, vanilla sins throws all sorts of sound related errors on multistar maps...havent had one cause a crash but might be worth playing in dev mode so you can see what error pops up...

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Reply #6 April 17, 2014 9:22:54 AM
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Ok,

I am no longer getting the fmod.dll error. However, I am now getting constant runtime errors. Sadly right now the game is fairly unplayable, as in the autosaves simply don't save often enough in combination with my constant crashing for me to be able to actually progress. Every other program on my computer runs fine with absolutely no issues.

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Reply #7 April 17, 2014 12:07:43 PM
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Some more additional information.

I am occasionally getting crashes that don't display any sort of error messages at all, i usually just hear the sound windows makes when something crashes and the game exits. ALso, the game is creating no crash dumps at all in the sins dump folder.

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Reply #8 April 17, 2014 5:07:35 PM
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Well, that's pesky. If you look in the directory where Steam installed the game, do you see any .mdmp files there?

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Reply #9 April 17, 2014 5:08:19 PM
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Most of my "minidumps" are runtime errors or ctds....you will not get a dump file for those, which is rather unfortunate for the devs...generally though I only get those on ico, not in single player...

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