my i7 system, running elemental from a desktop shortcut to the elemental.exe

started testing at aprox 5.30pm aest

screen res is set to display res, BUT not full screen, same game as previous oom crash report

decided to save game when ram useage was at 1.3gb,clicked on kingdoms button, then options then save typed in name for save, in the open task manager notice that ram useage was increasing quickly, within a few seconds the ram useage hit 1.5 and out of memory errored with the resultant zip being 0 bytes, save not made, 10mb dmp file

created a rar containing the dmp,err saves & dxdiags

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, loaded last autosave played on till ctd

dump, err,saves & dxdiags

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, played intro,loaded savegame,displayed in game, had unable to download files error

dump,err,saves & dxdiags

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, played intro, went to menu, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, had unable to download files error

loaded game again, played intro,went to menu, had unable to download files error

9.02pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.06pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.12pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.14pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.16pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.19pm loaded game again, had unable to download files error

9.21pm loaded game again,played intro,got to menu,waited approx 2 minutes, had unable to download files error

sick and tired of testing the file downloader that KEEPS failing to download the files so shut down the testing computer,uploaded the crash reports

finished thsis report  & going to bed with a severe case of frustration with the file downloader.

harpo