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Please post your debug.err file when reporting issues, particularly any graphic issues.

A saved game illustrating the border and resource issues upon recapturing your capital would be helpful.

[quote]or at least create a folder under My Documents?[/quote] It does. Savegames and user stuff go into My documents\My games\Elemental.

If you select the shard on the map, does it offer a build button?

[quote]If I'm not mistaken, the advanced lighting problem exists for everyone.[/quote] It does not. So if you're experiencing this we need your debug.err file with the detailed system info.

Which faction were you playing as?

Please post your debug.err file as noted in the reporting guide. We need the technical information that it provides.

Please post your debug.err file if you're having graphic/interface issues like this. We can't do much without some technical info to go on.

Are you sure you didn't have some units pass by one?

Have you tried researching the appropriate technologies to see if they appear in the city build menu then?

[quote]For future reference, that crash report windows wants to send to microsoft, would that be useful to include in a bug report?[/quote] If there is no memory dump, it may be better than nothing. If in doubt, always err on the side of too much info.

Debug.err files are always generated on every run, regardless what happens. See the reporting guide sticky for details.

Please provide your debug.err file as per the reporting guide when posting about issues like this. The savegames themselves may also be helpful if particular ones are causing the issue.

Please provide your debug.err file when reporting issues like this.

Please provide your debug.err file when making a report.

What method did you use to cast them? Please be as detailed as possible when making a report.

Please provide your debug.err file when reporting issues.

Please provide your debug.err when reporting any issue like this.

[quote]This doesn't work for me[/quote] If you have any special mouse software, make sure that your wheel-click isn't bound to any special function.

Please provide your debug.err file for this session, or if you can reproduce it. Was this in a fresh session or after finishing a game?

[quote]Intel C2D E6400 2.13 GHz Radeon HD 3850 256 MB Windows XP 2 GB RAM[/quote] Please post your debug.err file so we can see more detailed system and driver info.

Please provide your debug.err file when reporting issues like this.

As publius said, we need screenshots showing us what you're seeing, as well as your debug.err file. The reporting guide he linked will describe how to provide these.

Do you have an autosave that allows this to be reproduced? If so, we can use it.

Windowed mode or fullscreen? Taskbar set to show or autohide? Always on top or not? Please provide more detail about this issue.