If you have time, Pm me your phone number and I'll give you a call.

Im in the same boat and hoping they will post what the fix was.  I made a post myself that turned into 2 posts!  Not sure how that happened other than the first post I made never showed so I made another and then boom it appeared...sigh.

I can confirm this bug: as soon as you start a new game (after choosing a sovereign) the game crashes. This is both for existing sovereigns and after creating a custom sovereign.

have you tried emptying out your folders in \mygames\fallenenchantress ? 

It's done the trick for me before.  Whether its old saves or messed up prefs.ini..  *shrug*  But I had to do that last two patches. 

ty we can do it tomorrow i dont have time now, btw i live in europe you sure about calling? maybe we can use skype or something or messaging/mail

Thank you

Just a small comment: the main screen menu's font is quite blurry. Painful on the eyes. My resolution is 1920x1080, if that matters.

I PMd my dropbox crash to ya Derek! 

Im also getting the same problem HenriHakl and told them about!

Going to uninstall and do a clean install of the new update.  Not sure if this might mean anything but when I went to control panel to uninstall...I noticed(after i hit uniinstall) that FE was still on the .952 version there and not the updated 980 version.  By the time I noticed it, it was too late, but thought i mention that.

Sounds like you guys need to work on the install process a bit more. I'd hate to see an otherwise excellent game get marred because the installer didn't do a good job installing over older versions.

The fix of deleting the contents of the screens folder did not work for me.  I click my sovereign, click next, then on the world screen, i click next one more time and crash. 

edit - i sent the 2 files.  and i do live in the us, great lakes region (northern indiana).

  For those having the issue, please test the following exe (backup your old one and then place this one in your "\\Program Files\Stardock Games\FallenEnchantress\" directory.

https://www.elementalgame.com/img/FallenEnchantress.exe

  HenriHaki, thanks you for the logs.  It looks like you updated your ElementalDefs.xml to be able to give your sovereign's 12 customization points.  Because of that the installer didn't see a version of ElementalDefs that it recognized and it skipped the file (the installer only has byte level differences, it doesnt have the complete file contents).  Since that file was not updated you didn't get a 0.980 version of ElementalDefs which is causing your crash.

  The above FallenEnchantress.exe should fix the crash.  But doesn't fix the issue that you are still using the 0.962 version of ElementalDefs (with your change).

Ah, strange. I don't run mods - nor have I modified any of the game files.

I'll just go ahead and download the full game and install again.

i was the one who attempted to give 12 creation points (to diversify custom civ's) and that seems to be correct.  i will uninstall and reinstall clean to reset those numbers and try again.