Crash to desktop when colonizing a planet.

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I have a gigantic galaxy with many planets and am doing battle with the Yors. I am near the end of the game. One of the stars I captured from the Yor had a habitable planet I wanted to colonize so I built a colony ship and proceeded to colonize it when it crashed and returned to the desk top.

SmarException is stll NOT WORKING on my pc, but the last few lines of my Debug.err file contains:
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Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: UIGame
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System UIGame
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
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Cari,

Does the above allow you to track down the problem? I could send you the entire debug.err file if you like. The saved game is not quite to the point where it would make it easy for you to recreate this error if I sent it to you, and I have not checked yet to see if I can recreate it from the saved game. I will do so and have it ready if you find you need it.

Cheers,
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Ouch, those errors look nasty.

SmartException is not working on anyone's computer, as far as I know, and I'm not happy about it either.

I have an idea of what it could possibly be, but I would appreciate the saved game so that I could verify it.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari,

I tried the saved game to see if it would reoccur. It did not, and I have not seen this crash since. Sorry.

Is there any older version of SE that we might get that used to work? Did anyone keep any copies of the older versions?

Thanks,
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari,

I am now getting crashes of more general types and at unrelated times. I had one during an end of turn funtion for one. Others have happened in a variety of situations. Every time, restarting the game (so far) gets me past the crash. Every check of the Debug.err file gives nothing suspicious. Sometimes it also seems to affect my OS (WinME) in that OS shutdown stops just before the message saying it is safe to turn off the computer.

If I had a working copy of SE I could be of more help. Is there any chance of my getting an old one that worked?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I also have had some crashes that showed nothing in the debug.err file and are at various events.
(First contact with alien race, alien race declares war, trying to open planet after concuring it)
SE would help in tracking down these types of bugs.
I would be willing to try to install a experimental version of SE or even an old version.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, I got an old copy and verified that it worked and Kris is making an installer that we will make available to all of the beta testers.