1.09w very frustrating

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Prior to 1.09w I was able to play crash free, was fun! But now with the new patch I am constantly crashing. I hope a fix comes out soon!

 

Intel Quadcore 2.4GHz

8GB RAM

Nvidia 9600 1GB Video card (installed latest drivers)

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit edition 

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top
Yup, same here. I'm constantly crashing about turn 100 or so with only one city and almost none of the map explored. On one hand I'm excited about all the updates happening, and on the other I'm quite frustrated that it still feels like I've paid $50 to beta test a very buggy game for several months...
Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

If you can.. use a file hosting service like dropbox (its pretty neat and its free) to post the entire zip file.

which will be named something like Elemental1_0-2010-08-26T11-11-06-474  and be located in the following directories.

On Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic 

On Vista/Win7: C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic

 

TBH posting that it crashes without any data to help them locate the issue isn't helpful *_*  

 

Yup, same here. I'm constantly crashing about turn 100 or so with only one city and almost none of the map explored. On one hand I'm excited about all the updates happening, and on the other I'm quite frustrated that it still feels like I've paid $50 to beta test a very buggy game for several months...
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Why would you download Beta versions if you didn't wanna beta test? Your logic (or lack there of)confuses me..
Last I want to note that when you UPDATE you need to remove your old user files/game saves custom sovs factions etc. Using Old ones with a new version of the game can cause instability.
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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Why would you download Beta versions if you didn't wanna beta test?
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LOL--perplexed as well


Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

out of curiosity, if you need the internet connection to play the beta, what is the purpose of the connection if you still need send them the files ?

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

The connect was so they could make changes on their end without having to push out a new patch.   It would be bad practice for them to upload files from your computer.   

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

dont play beta then simple as that,

i actually played to turn 800 with out a crash, it only finally crashed the nwhen i loaded a game, wich seems to be my main instance of crashing is either making a a new game or loading.

im running similar system,

Intel core 2 quad q9550 2.83

Nvidia 465 1gb evga'

win 7 x64

8gb ram,

 

i have my page file set to 25gb tho ive noticed it helps with games with memory leak issues, i dont know if thats the cause but try doing that, set it to 25gb on ur primary hard drive, usually c:\ . chance it could help with it. 1.1 shold be coming soon u could just wait for that,

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top
LOL, ya after rereading my post it didn't seem to make a lot of sense. The non-beta version is still pretty buggy for me. I actually tried the beta versions in the hopes that some of the issues have been addressed, but it seems to crash even more often.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting dopeydave, reply 6
dont play beta then simple as that,

i actually played to turn 800 with out a crash, it only finally crashed the nwhen i loaded a game, wich seems to be my main instance of crashing is either making a a new game or loading.

im running similar system,

Intel core 2 quad q9550 2.83

Nvidia 465 1gb evga'

win 7 x64

8gb ram,

 

i have my page file set to 25gb tho ive noticed it helps with games with memory leak issues, i dont know if thats the cause but try doing that, set it to 25gb on ur primary hard drive, usually c:\ . chance it could help with it. 1.1 shold be coming soon u could just wait for that,
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I think you misunderstand my post..I said pre 1.09W was nice. I enjoyed 1.09v it was very stable and I plaayed a few games thru...however now, i am unable to play for more than 10 min at a time, and as the AI's grow, that time gets cut to 6 or 7 min at best before the system just locks up and ceases to respond....I am letting the Devs know, that there is something wrong with 1.09W :)

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

In all fairness have any of the "release" versions been stable. I think alot of the people who have been saying their beta testing the game mean every version not just the ones marked as beta. People are frustrated and instead of jumping to the old "don't complain you clicked the beta box" is alot more complicated here than it usually is in other cases. With Elemental the game was released in what alot of people might not even consider a beta state. Within the actual beta alot of people were perplexed at Stardock calling development versions "betas". I think stardock themselves became confused internally between developing the engine and developing the game and just kind of put the version number of the engine on the game.

Cut people some slack they paid for the game and by most objective standards no version they have recieved to date would really qualify as non-beta.