went to save game when ram useage was at 1,562,000,crashed at 1,608,924k 

AND did NOT save

suspected location of ram leak MIGHT be in save code

again the zip was 0 bytes

save games, dmp,err & dxdiags

loaded autosave game, played on and again went to save at ram useage 1,425,000k, crash at 1,525,776k

and did not save, and the zip again 0 bytes

save games, dmp,err & dxdiags

loaded autosave played 2-3 turns then failed to download files error

savegames, dmp, err & dxdiags

unable to download files at startup

reloaded, intro played went to menu and failed to download files error

reloaded again, intro played went to main menu waited 2 minutes, loaded autosave game, failed to download files error

gave up testing for today

harpo