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Strange, but simple problem that I see no reason for, but I like to play Huge games with 5 systems: As empires epand to a decent size and more stuff is going on, a simple chat message from any AI brings my framerate to a crawl until it disappears. I don't know if this occurs in multiplay. What frustrates me is there is no option to relegate chat messages to the update tracker or something, without bringing my framerate down. Or why something so simple isn't optimized th

I actually sent one of the crashes through Xfire, are you guys getting feedback off of their crash detection software?

Confirmed 1.05 is crashing, 1.00 is not. And yes, 1440x900 is my desktop (monitor's native), and that's what I run the game at. Everything at Highest, Bloom enabled, runs extremely well.

It's at 1.05, I downloaded the 1.05 bonus pack immediately after I registered. Today, I'm going to uninstall and try playing the CD version with no patch.

Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Proc: AMD Athlon 4200+ 2.2 GHz dual-core RAM: 2.5 GB DDR1 Yeah, I think I should be able to run the game fine. And this is a brand-new install of Vista, so my drivers are up-to-date. I even let Vista do an extra check for me just now.

A little more definite than some of these other crash reports, the last two times I've tried to play in the full game (since I bought it -- these are the only two games I've tried to start after the demo) have crashed very early on. The map is Random - Small, and the first time, it crashed without the CD, second time, with the CD in the drive. I'm running on Vista, if that helps. Brand new install, Halo 2 is crashing as well. >.< Probably unrelated, since that crashes after about an