attempted to play several games on my b3 system (win7 64bit i7930 oc 4ghz 12gb ddr3 2ghz ati 5850 mb ga-x58aud3r dual screen large screen with elemental, second with taskmanager & monitoring apps same config going back to the BETA with all of my i7 game dumps) and UNMODIFIED exe,

first was on frogboy's megamap, THE ONLY resources were at the initial spawns, AND the game crashed at the end of the first turn no dump created,

then started another game on my wierdie map got to turn 70 & dump, did have resources away from initial location

loaded the autosave and played for another few turns &  dumped again

gave the game a 10 day break, then loaded the autosave to try again, played another few turns & dump

then started a new game again on a ginormouse map of my own (256x256) got to turn 100 & dump,

reloaded, load the turn 96 autosave played on till next dump at turn 120,(note the autosave is at turn 116)

 and re-loaded the autosave, played on until lockup at summer 193 ac (do not know how many turns this is due to the partial conversion from turns to seasons btw if seasons ARE NEEDED please show them graphically)(additional note when ended elemental.exe via taskmanager then checked the debug.err the turn number was 137 no dump, manually created rar of debug.err, dxdiags & all my games/elemental folders except screenshots & maps

and 1.09e did get me approx 200+ turns till first dump on huge maps, and I do not remember ANY of the previous versions INCLUDING the disc 1.00 being THIS UNSTABLE

the problems STILL appear to be the save game area same as back in beta 2,3,4  AND the release 1.00-1.09e, BUT alot worse than ANY of the previous versions EVEN when I was using the view all map cheat.

harpo