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and another application crash, this time NO dump or zip, and the windows system log message Application popup: Elemental: War of Magic 1.30 : Elemental.exe - Application Error : The exception unknown software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the application at location 0x016379ff. Click on OK to terminate the program Click on CANCEL to debug the program <a title="no dump or zip crash 1.3" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/elemental%20crashes/Elemental%201

loaded the save on turn 301, the played on to turn 357 and exiting a battle with two of my units when TWO windows error message occured and had six towns with the cap at level 5 and the others at level 3 and growing (each town had at least 3 heros with a prestige of 130 and a charisma of 130+) the first was(copied from windows error log) Application popup: Elemental: War of Magic 1.30 : Elemental.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x0065bb33" referenced memory

created a new map with elementtera 2 size 160 x 128(10x8 I think) started a new game in elemental on the map, played to turn 302, when had a application error dialog open reading Application popup: Elemental: War of Magic 1.30 : Elemental.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x00000000" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program Click on CANCEL to debug the program clicked ok

then again you guys WILL NEED a determined(extremely stubborn) tester that can and will pull no punches and also knows enough programming to locate and identify the bug, even if they do not use the develomment language for the program. harpo

or with the first city levelup, you choose the spawn random defender. harpo

then again, she is supposed to be several hundred years old. harpo

during the game I had only one battle where I had to use the next turn because my units would not respond to the commands. and for further info another crash locking up elemental waited for 10 minutes before end tasking in task manager, had re-booted computer, loaded elemental, loaded the save game (turn 296) played on to turn 437 when I got the usual crashed app error trying to read memory at 0x0000000d after ending the elemental exe (which was using 1 core of the cpu

updated eleental, deleted the save game folder, started a new game on my four continent map played on to turn 300 had killed one ai, ws working on extermination of second, (could have wiped out three others , but were same alignment(kingdoms), so treatied them and married two of them, and ws killing magnar(they had declared war on me over 50 turns before and was on another continent. also noticed during play even with each city having a unit with 80 prestige stationed in it wh

that is the 1.3 patch and also was in the 1.2e&f beta patches, & frogboy did that to try to reduce the city spam(failed). harpo

yes I also have found the neg gildar exploit, BUT the negative of the neg gildar is the ONLY thing(s) you can build ARE houses, and gildar producers, and the units start to disolve. harpo

I also have noticed that amd cpu's are a lot slower in elemental than an intel, but I do not know why or what the cause is. harpo

had re-loaded game. then loaded save game and played from turn 415 to end of turn 674 when had another crash to desktop (no error message just elemental closed returning to desktop), when I checked the crash file location the dmp was still there and the zip was 0(zero) bytes rared the dmp, added the zip,sage games folder debug.err & dxdiag

me likey. frogboy, please try to apply this harpo

had started a new game, played to around turn 230(map size 10 x 8 15 starts 20 shards four continents) zip created in crash loaded the save game, then played on to turn 416 when CTD happened( and did NOT create the crash zip, <a title="dmp not zipped ctd" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/elemental%20crashes

what is your autosave interval? harpo

I have had a game (on a 10 x 8 four continent map)(with a mod that includes charisma increasing items) with 12 cities and EACH city having a hero stationed in the city with a charisma rating of 118-110 EACH, and each city (pop from 1level 1 just created) to 300+(capital city level 4)) having a prestige value of ONLY .1, when I had only 5 cities, with each having ONE hero stationed in them with the SAME charisma items the cities prestige rating was over 5, and I did not completely contro

third party testing is also vital for ANY project either software OR hardware. harpo

open impulse, click on blue button, click on show beta, click on ok. btw this is the quick form of the answer, because 1.2f is a BETA for 1.3. harpo

and a FOURTH crash to desktop after only a few turns(save game loaded was turn 216 played to turn 226) crash 4 zip harpo

and a third ctd on the same game, same computer, did notice that the sound started to repeat for a couple of seconds then the desktop was fully visible with NO windows error dialogs crash 3 upon reading the debug.err there is no info past the start of turn at the crash point. harpo

was playing elemental 1.2f on another of my computers over the weekend (system is amd x2 6000+ 4gb ddr2 800 geforce 8800gt, winxp pro sp3). had CTD twice (was playing in windowed mode both ctd's did create a zip file crash 1 <a title="1.2f ctd crash 2" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/elemental%20crashes/Ele

tanafres, you are a youngster, as I was attempting to WRITE text based graphical games in 1978/9/80, ie used a text display to represent graphics in BLACK and green(white), and even remember seeing the AMBER screens, and thinking how cool they were, as most of the screens WERE black and white with the expensive ones having GREEN phospher CRT and being more expensive, while the amber were even MORE expensive again. the ancient harpo

in the current patch in one of my games my FIRST shard temple (said to cost 10 citizens actually cost 497(pop before building shard temple was 2345, pop requirement after queing the temple was 2843), (admittedly I had conquored both the other factions on my landmass (3 continent 10 x 8 map with approx 15 islands (only 4 large enough for towns to grow to a reasonable size)and have shards on them) and did control 15 towns, but had razed 5 of them and reduced most of them to resources and housin

alexander, in impulse you have to set the show beta in the blue button, THEn check for updates harpo

restarted elemental & loaded save game (turn 251) played on till ANOTHER windows crash(at turn 392 approx 2 and a half hours of play on a intel e4600 geforece 7600gs 4gb ddr2 1066 system) attempting to read from ram address 0x00000004 by elemental.exe. during play had built 2 more towns, and have noticed the exponential pop use (ie pop required MORE than pop available after queueing ONE building in any of my towns( cap at level 5, second and third towns at level 3 with research sp