Publius of NV

I've seen this as well. I move the sovereign into the city to heal, move it out and then back in, and the city shows 2 soveriegns.

Mouse over the town to popup the info card, it shows current population, max population, and population growth per turn.

You can disable AA in the game's video options.

I partially retract my earlier post. The crash is not consistent, on my 4th try it started ok.

Immediately after installing .25, I was able to start it and play until I hit a crash reported in another thread. However, each time I tried to start a new game after that, it crashed on the splash screen, with the windows message "Turn based fantasy strategy game has stopped working". This is on Vista Home Premium. If I uninstall and immediately reinstall the game via Impulse, it still crashes. If I uninstall with Impulse, manually erase the left over Element

I'm running with a NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT.

I can't get past a crash on launch either. In addition to the debug.err, though, there's another file you can send, a memory dump. Details on where to find it are in this post . It's in the 5th paragraph under the heading " What kind of detail should you give?".

When I first downloaded .24 it would run for me in windowed mode after I added the SkipIntro=1 to the prefs.ini file. After a couple of days, though, it started crashing after showing the splash screen, and now I can't run it windowed. I've submitted the dump etc to fogbugz. It's not specific to ATI because I'm using NVidia.

Another thing to try is to set SkipIntro=1 in prefs.ini. Thant fixes most crashes after the splash screen in windowed mode for me.

Yet another opponent blocked from the rest of the map, .24. Debug Message: Map Random Seed: 1254592923

Another opponent blocked from the rest of the map, .24. Debug Message: Map Random Seed: 1254590320 Although it looks like there might be a small pass through the mountains, I tried to get through and could not.

I played a short game and lost by getting my sovereign killed. I went back to the main menu and clicked "Skirmish" to start a new game, and the game crashed. debug, dxdiag, and memory dump submitted to fogbugz.

Opponent sovereign blocked off from rest of map. This is with .24. Debug Message: Map Random Seed: 1254588888

[quote]Except mine don't move. They remain stuck on the cities for as long as the game goes on.[/quote] Ok, that is strange. Mine do move.

Were you running in a window or fullscreen? If you edit the prefs.ini in your My Games\Elemental folder and change SkipIntro=0 to SkipIntro=1, does that bypass the crash?

I've seen the same thing. I do think they are caravans, as they move along the roads between towns.

Please don't remove CTRL+U unless you don't want us to report any more map oddities.

If you edit the prefs.ini in your My Games\Elemental folder and change SkipIntro=0 to SkipIntro=1, does that bypass the crash?

After hitting the hang that I reported in another thread, I uninstalled and reinstalled. The game started up, I changed the options to switch to windowed mode, exited the game, and restarted. Then I hit the crash reported in this thread. The skipintro prefs.ini change that stevty2889 suggested circumvents the crash for me also. I've reported the problem on fogbugz, ticket 70726.

Changelog - see here:

I'd had crashes on .23, but nothing this bad. I was trying to move my sovereign, hit the space bar for next turn, a message box popped up with no message but asking me for a yes/no response. I clicked yes, and the game screen went black. After waiting 30 minutes for it to terminate, I tried to use task manager to kill it, but it wouldn't die. I finally was able to reboot, but the shutdown took another 20 minutes and when Vista came back up it said Windows hadn't shut d

Also, within that small map I just posted, there's a spider encircled by mountains:

Another very small map. Debug Message: Map Random Seed: 1254274475

Starting position nearly surrounded by forest. Debug Message: Map Random Seed: 1254268685

I actually look a lot like my avatar. I'm bald like it, but my hair and beard aren't that long and not completely gray/white (yet).