I started a game, saved immediately (before making any moves), and played for a bit (quick victory), saving occasionally. Tried to load saved games. The first save (before making any moves) loads ok. All other saves crashed. The first few crashes result in the windows crash message ("Turn based fantasy strategy game has stopped working. Windows can check online for a solution to the problem. Check online... Close the program"), the later crashes are immediate CTDs with no windows crash popup.
example of windows crash from save taken after ~15 minutes from game start:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/debug.err
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/DxDiag.txt
No memory dump zip file is in ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic. There is a .dmp file but it's empty.
Windows "Problem Details" info from its crash popup screen:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Elemental.exe
Application Version: 0.2.9.5
Application Timestamp: 4b8fef98
Fault Module Name: StackHash_cb5f
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bd98a
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 00008518
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cb5f
Additional Information 2: cb5f2bc98dbc4ee9c78d7c7f9bfe8214
Additional Information 3: c4a2
Additional Information 4: c4a20ebbae5174b53a1c4bd5622049d1
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Example of an immediate CTD from save taken after ~30 minutes after game start:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/debugCTD.err (note changed file name)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/Elemental0_295-2010-03-19T15-44-13-387.zip
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Earlier versions of Elemental crashed before I was able to play more than a few minutes, and saves almost always immediately CTD'd.
Current Elemental versions don't crash often while playing, but saves typically crash. For some games, saves made soon after the game starts will work but after some time they crash. The above example is from a game when only the save made immediately after the game began worked.
