GuiltarGirl

[quote]Setting all graphics to "High" instead of "Highest" solved all problems for me, as suggested a few posts ago.Lowering your standards and enjoyability of the game is not a fix.[/quote] I fear I must agree, those of us who slaved away and did without and are still eating Maruchan Raman 3 or 4 times a day so we could pay top dollar for the latest hardware feel we are entitled to crank everything up to max with no problems. It's really frustrating, and it gives creedence to

[quote]Just installed the 169.44 Drivers, the latest official nVidia ones, and they appear to have worked! Now I'm actually noticing other bugs that I didn't notice before because it crashed too often![/quote] I feel ya, bro, me too. You DO know there's a new SB update, don't ya, just released in the past week or two? It's XFi web update version 5. Also, the beta for nVidia's driver version 174 for the series 8's was released today. Is your nVidia card an 8 or 9? But i did thos

I downloaded this update and my problem still remains. Also, I just updated my dedicated SC driver at the Creative Labs website (the x64 version of Creative's Vista Web Update 5, I think it just came out in the past few days), and I downloaded the nVidia 64-bit beta driver v.174 (I have dual 8800 GTXes). I am getting lockups like crazy, but since I did those 2 things it has gotten like WAY better. But it's still there. BTW, for all you that don't know yet (but I gue

Wes, That update is already installed on my system. I don't know if I installed it stand-alone or if it came with SP 1 (if that even matters). Any other suggestions? Thanx GG

[quote] Ok theres 2 roads your problem could go down 1. Is that your problem is easily fixable by downloading 1 or both of these and it maybe will fix your problem http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940105 2.You have a problem that many ppl have reported and theres a dedicated thread to it sticky'd in this forum. https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/176162 [/quote] Awesome, thanks a bu

Hi. I am running Sins in Vista x64 (Business Edition), using dual nVidia Series 8's in SLI (GTXes). My CPU is a Core 2 Extreme QX6700, and I've got 4 gigs of 1066 Corsair RAM back-clocked to 800 MHz. I am having a horrible time with the game crashing like crazy. It usually doesn't happen until things get rolling really well, when I've got battles going on in 2 or more systems. Then, the sound stutters and the game refuses to respond to commands. I am almost always forced to eventually do