Having read a lot of Elemental news, it seems crashing is a way of life until the game is patched into usability.
I tried updating my game, played about 200 turns, then I had constant crashes. I was able to avoid the crash, slightly, by not moving my mouse around too much, especially during the wait between turns. When it crashed, initially, I was sometimes getting the "DX Call" error. Most times, however, it just crashed, and I'd get a system tray balloon which told me that my graphics drivers had stopped working, but had now recovered. The crashes now happen no matter if I play a pre-existing game, a new game, or a different save. Once the crashes started, they somehow became chronic. I've never quite seen anything like it. I reinstalled my drivers, of course. Not willing to do a full OS reinstall at this time, considering how many people are reporting crashing problems. I can handle crashes, but this much crashing makes it unplayable.
I tried uninstalling the game and reinstalling ver 1.00, but all the same problems were there. I'm not getting crashes in other games. The odd part, is that i played through the campaign, and a simple level or two, and everything was fine. The crashes just started happening out of no where, and once they started, they never went away.
Man, I'm confused. Is this game not truly out of beta?
I'm using Win 7 32-bit, by the way. nVidia 8800 GT, 2 gigs of RAM, 2.4ghz quad core, 1 mouse (black, smooth, sexy, named "The Crashenator" -- I hope its not the problem).
