I just played a game of doing nothing, only pressing space.  Around turn 30 I got married, not long after I had a child (just think: what would have happened when he came of age, given that I built no cities?) and around turn 90, guess what? Victory-Conquest without ever moving!

ROFL!

I got the white screen problem on every new game I attempted to start regardless of the sovereign I chose.  When I quit the game there was a LOOOONG hang before it exited.

Here's the debug.err: http://pastebin.com/vDuZ9DCn

Here's the dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/bfYt3Hqm

and the dropbox thing: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5321787/Elemental0_295-2010-03-13T02-14-43-279.zip

I just played another game where I build a city on turn five and repeatedly pressed the space bar to end the turn, counting up to five hundred.  On about turn ten, I finished my first research project and I did not choose an advancement, but kept pressing space until turn ~500 so the prompt stayed up. 

Meanwhile, from what I could see, some huts appeared and disappeared in the background; they weren't my color so they must have been an enemy.  Around turn 500 I decided to just HOLD the space bar and after a few seconds the turn button on the screen dimmed so I started responding to the prompts.

I chose the Farming advancement NINE TIMES, interrupted by a wedding, two births and comings-of-age, one diplomatic encounter, a declaration of war, one combat with a little soldier, which I accepted and later found out that I won.

When these prompts had passed: Victory-Conquest. :roll: (On the research advancement prompts, sometimes the mining option appeared, sometimes it didn't, meaning that the probability was rerolled each time but the farming advancement wasn't added to my empire until after I'd chosen it nine times and done all of those other things)

My educated guess is that the turn button dimmed because I had already won the game.

Next game, same M.O., planted city, moved Sov into it, chose Civilization as research, but this time just held down the space bar.  This one was less eventful: once advances were going to take 125 turns to complete, I relented, chose Farming like 19 times, witnessed about a dozen children be born and grow up, etc.

The cause and effects of the game are way too separated: I have separated them by HUNDREDS OF TURNS.  The only reason I keep doing this is because I'm hoping that this shines lights on problems beyond the space bar.

One problem is that the game makes you choose actions before receiving the result.  During normal play, you can be faced with multiple battles before receiving the result of ONE battle, and the battles are interspersed with marriages, research advancements, etc., right?

What I've done is show that the problem in the order of things is bigger: In one thousand turns, when you start replying to prompts, you can choose the same research advancement dozens of times before the game realizes that you have already chosen it!

I'm not sure disabling the space bar would fix this all.

The game DOES NOT LIKE IT if you refuse to set a research path and instead hold down the space bar.  After half a minute the turn button on the screen grayed out.  It probably means I "won", though.  I can't click ok to select a research path and the game is frozen.

Also tried this a second time and the turn button grayed out, but this time I WAS able to click ok.  I don't think I actually got to choose a research discipline, though.  Instead I received my messages about marriage and birth and then a Victory-Conquest.

I tried to start a new game but it was a white screen again.  Here's the Sov selection screen with pink baby Procipinee! (only one duplicated Sov this time)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5321787/baby-weird.bmp

Then, for good measure, I went to the menu, clicked New Game, then went 'back' so that I could trick it into letting my load a game instead of continuing a game.  Loading a game crashed it!

I didn't get a new zip file for this one, but I'm pretty sure I got a distinct debug.err in the other location it can be found in: http://pastebin.com/625DATvk

Good night for now, hope this was all somehow useful

No one else testing this...?

Guess I'll wait for 1Z and see if a dev caught on