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Upgrading my Starbase causes my game to crash

Whenever I upgrade this one mining space station the game crashes within a couple of seconds, I haven't tested this with other space stations. I know it only happening when I upgrade the space station, The rest of the game runs fine. Please help me figure what to do to fix it? By the way I have Vista and Nvidia Geforce 7900 gtx with AMD 64 dual core FX-60.

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Is this for GC2 or DA?

Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

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Debug Message: Version v1.50 Dark Avatar last updated on: Fri Feb 9 14:05:57 2007
Debug Message: Checking DX Version.
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 2/12/2007, 02:43:07
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Machine Name: GAVAN-ONE
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX-60 Dual Core Processor (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Physical Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 863MB used, 3451MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows

Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce 7900 GTX
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0290&SUBSYS_201119F1&REV_A1
Display Memory: 512 MB
Current Display Mode: 1600 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Dell P780
Monitor Max Resolution:
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.0059
Driver Date: 1/30/2007 22:49:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: Speakers (Realtek AC'97 Audio)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0059&SUBSYS_812A1043&REV_A2
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: ALCXWDM.SYS
Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.6090
Driver Date: 5/19/2006 22:44:52
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 1
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0

Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
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Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
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Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
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Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated.
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Aside: Interesting that you're not experiencing the Vista+nVidia "Error flipping back buffer" crash that the majority of Vista+nVidia users are.

Please do try reproducing the crash. Does it happen with other starbases? If so, does it only occur on other mining bases, or any base?

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I tested with an influence mine and sure enough when I upgraded it it crashed again. So I tested it with to different types of mines, and have retry many time by reloading my save, But It keep crashes when I upgrade! Kind Of a bummer being my first game and all!

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Some new interesting news I started a new game and did a moral mine upgrade and it worked. But they I once I again did Influence mine upgrade and it crashed. So I'm seeing that only Ecom and Influ crash my games. I starting to guess this is not on my end and that there some bug in my version. I'll try a reinstall. But this is turning out very weird

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