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I also had this issue, even to having 250 crystal, the only way I could continue was to put a town near the limit of travel, and grow the zone of control to past the castle, then teleport the army over to beside the castle and then carry on harpo

there have been SOME reports of an issue where the data.zip is rebuilt which can take up to 10 minutes during the dragon screen. this might be what is happening harpo

the save games are in the my docs/my games/elemental/saves folder and have a filetype of EleSav harpo

chipps567, from what I read in another thread, the radeon x800 is several generations older than the minimum required for elemental, so it might be a good idea( IF possible) to think about upgrading the video card. harpo

kapeman, you DO have the 'hide file extensions for known file types' OFF(de-selected/unticked) in your files/folders options? for me with the hide extensions off, I CAN see the png & xml on the files. my guess is that windows is hiding the information from you thinking it helps the user to not know about that sort of stuff(bloody M$ and their idiocy) and yes BOTH the map's png & xml SHOULD be in the my docs/my games/elemental/Maps folder. harpo

loaded save game, played on to turn 210 when saw a prince of my race as a monster/ruffian, put togeather a heavy attack group(sov first born descendant and 4 adventurer heros to go & kill it, took a screendump of it's specs then atttacked it lost one of the heros as it took the first move, but killed it with an arrow from sov and on turn 217 ANOTHER OOM <a title="1.09 flamer second oom" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/elemental%20crashes/Elemental1_09-2010-10-02T16-59-29-162

I also have had this happen in a new to 1.09 game, but with a race & sov from earlier versions, see this harpo

updated elemental, started a new game on xp sp3 with nvidia 7600gs 4gb ddr2 played ONLY 159 turns on a small map 3 ai, the same map in 1.08 would play OVER 250 turns on the same computer. zip file of err & dmp was created, added dxdiag & saves harpo

it could be that the videocard is getting a temperature SPIKE that is causing the driver to crash. I did have a similar issue to this with an ati videocard where the copper billet in the heatsink had moved away from the GPU and the card would crash when any significant graphics work would happen, I fixed the issue by dismantling the heatsink & puting some materials to force the billet into contact with the GPU. since the fixing of the card I have not had any problems in the partic

just updated to 1.09.43, on my i7 w 12gb ddr3 2ghz win7 64bit played a single new game with a custom sov large map & map view cheat, played to turn 155 then elemental crashed, checked ram use was 1.6gb, last entries in the debug.err suggest that there is a ram leak in the save code as almost all the ooms that have happened to me have all been in the save code as the last entries <a title="first oom in 1.09" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/elemental%20crashes/Elemental1_09-20

just cheecked your driver date (2007) on the intel gm 965 INTEGRATED video. here is a link to the intel support page for the chipset, http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/965m hope a driver update helps. apparently the latest driver is jan 2010, but I suspect your video chipset is not up to the task, I hope I am wrong. harpo

[quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="65" id="2789595"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 621. Melee 2. Ranged 3. Calvalry How do we make all 3 distinct and meaningful? Unit design tends to encourage users to create single glombed mega units that are expensive and largely unsupportable leaving the player to complain about "balance". The 3 classes must reward chosing "right" (or shall we stay stylish = ) equipment and behaviour. Without ru

kyro, from reading the op's debug.err, it appears he is using a vista home premium 64bit with an ati 46X0 gpu with the 10.9 drivers by the driver date, just one thought from another thread, could it be the ATI tooltips & catylist control centre, causing the issue? harpo

one questtion for you is do you have the latest video drivers? I am runnig fairly well except for OOMs in an i7 930 w was 6gb ddr3 now 12gb dd3 with an ati 5850 on win7 64bit ultimate, and after adding the LAA patch get around 450-500 turns before the memory leak grinds the game to a halt, and before the laa patch was getting 150-250 turns, but I maks sure to use the latest drivers. harpo

have you tried clicking on the square, then clicking on the individual NPC's and recruiting them? harpo

have you tried updating your video driver? I have been using an amd system with a geforce 8800gt with the 197 (latest drivers from the nvidia website), integrated sound winxp and getting about 300-400 turns before OOM. harpo

had the same happen to me, the address is [email protected], the answer that I received was to keep the second copy. here is a link to my thread on this issue . harpo

[quote who="Gene1966" reply="53" id="2787985"]Does this patch work for Win7 64-bit OS Users? [/quote]yes if you are getting the dreeded Out Of Memory error. harpo

what about female sovs & their daughters? I think that the strongest adult heir should take over either male OR female based upon strength, essence, intelligence, wisdom, stratagic moves & tactical moves ie the individual combat rating (this wat it possible for the replacement SOV to be the strongest in the faction). harpo

the only commandline argument that I know is 'cheat' after a space at the end of the commandline in the shortcut. harpo

kyro I have just carried out the steps outlined in the OP on three of my elemental installed machines twowinxp sp3 x86 nvidea geforce 7600gs, the second ge

kyro I will clear all debugs/crash files, then repeat the tests outlined above harpo

on the purchase page of www.elementalgames.com is the following System Requirements OS windows 7/vista sp2/xp sp3 memory 1gb ram available processor 2.4ghz videocard 128mb 3d video card (geforce 6800/radeon x1600 or better harpo

since beta 4 (with the minor exception of 1.08.00 when I could not find the maps to edit) when I enter the cartography table, load a map, create the thumbnail or edit the map & save it, then exit the cartography table, the re-enter the cartography table it invariably crashes to desktop on all the computers that elemental is installed on. I have noticed a similar effect with the other modding tools that are included also. harpo

it is already in impulse, but the patch changed a lot of things for ranged weapons & spells, so if you are in the middle of a game do not update, if you are between games then update. harpo