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Was a dump file generated by the crash?

Do you have a save (auto or otherwise) that can reproduce this?

If you're getting a white map screen, try disabling antialiasing and/or advanced lighting. Your debug.err file indicating driver versions and such may be helpful in finding the cause, in any case.

Please provide more detail about what sort of graphic issues you're seeing (screenshots, etc) and which options you're disabling to remove them. Solving those problems would be a much better solution than disabling the functions :)

[quote]Alright so I found the debug.err file but I have nowhere to upload it (as I remember that we should not upload it to sites like rapidshare etc). It is only 4 kb, is it possible that I can mail to some of you guys at stardock?[/quote] As noted in the sticky, you can post it via pastebin or dropbox (or any site that allows it to be viewed directly without limits, timers, or speedbumps).

Try manually setting the game to windowed mode (fullscreen=0) in the Prefs.ini file under My Documents\My Games\Elemental. Some users with this issue found that to solve it in the previous build.

Please include the debug.err, dump file (if any), and a savegame (if the crash can be reproduced from it) when reporting a crash, as noted in the reporting guide.

Please post a dxdiag report. You can do so by: Click Start->Run-> type in dxdiag and click OK. Once it finishes, click the Save All button, give it a name, then open that file up in Notepad, copy+paste everything to pastebin.com or similar, and post the link here (please do not paste the report directly here as very long texts like that can make the page difficult to read).

In the future, please report only one bug per thread. Multi-bug posts make it unnecessarily difficult to summarize and categorize reports for the devs to review. General feedback or suggestions may be collected, though.

No, all boxed direct preorders will be shipped NA retail limited edition boxes from the US.

Locking this thread so people don't continue posting feedback here in confusion. If you have a report or feedback, use the link at the top of the thread to go to the beta forum, and create a new topic there.

Preorders are back on queue as of earlier today. Unless Brad opts to bring in more testers sooner, you can assume your order will be charged and access granted with Beta 3.

Re: forum posts, there are a variety of factors involved. Content, subject, frequency, etc. Personally I'd give most anything on our own forums a lower amount at most--stuff elsewhere on the web will be rewarded more generously. Also, if you report every post you make just to see what sticks, you're going to see a lot of denials. For example, I've posted more than a hundred replies in the past week. If I tried submitting those, I'd probably deny all of them. We're not going to be givi

[quote]First post so be gentle[/quote] Please make new threads of your own for bug reports--this is just an instructions/info thread.

Debug.err files are back in Beta 2a, at the original location under My Documents\My Games\Elemental.

[quote]Is the Debugger still turned "OFF"[/quote] No, debug.err files are being generated again in My Documetns\My Games\Elemental.

Just to add here guys, it's not necessary to re-report any in-game bugs from B2- that still exist in this build unless they're marked as fixed in the changelog, are crash bugs, or if you've got new info/repro. So please consult the roundup before posting.

[quote]I minimize everything, but, Even When You Minimize EVERYTHING, on a Large Custom Map (of course I add even More stars and planets), once your empire gets Big you still have All those planets on the left side of the screen. EVEN WITH EVERYTHING MINIMIZED.[/quote] Actually if you completely disable autopinning and set fleets to not show as well, it'll only show whatever planet you have selected (or where you have ships selected at). If you have nothing currently selected, it will

Granaries require a "special tile" food improvement (farm, apiary, etc). I could swear there was a note about that in the old build somewhere, though.

If it's not at either and it does not appear in Impulse with prerelease versions enabled, please contact [email protected].

[quote]Just test it out already..[/quote] We have and your report was not reproducible. Testing with one city and only a single farm, while researching intensively and choosing refined farming every time it appeared (8-10 times total each attempt before memory leaks stopped the test) granted an increase of 1-2 food each time, which is exactly as expected for a 10% bonus on a base of 15 food per farm. The results were the same as Pariden (the food bonus faction) and as another

[quote]The bonus from the food production faction is 50%, gardens were giving 3. [/quote] Because it's advanced farming , not advanced gardening :p

[quote]I know XP wouldn't even see a SATA drive until drivers were loaded, so no way it was bootable under that system.[/quote] It was, you just had to slipstream the HDD controller driver into the installer and re-burn it (or use a driver floppy, but nobody has floppy drives anymore). Vista and Windows 7 include most common SATA controller drivers out of the box.

Another update with reports from the first half of this week.

Try disabling advanced lighting and/or antialiasing in the video options.