Severe crash with GCII:DA and Stardock Central

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I experienced a severe bug with GCII:DA/Stardock Central.
I have installed the beta 1.50[b].102 and Stardock 2.45.458 build 149 with Windows 2000.
Sometimes my GC crashes back to the desktop. Something I have come to terms with because my system is quite old.
Yesterday I happened again and I decided to update GA once again. When I started Stardock Central it took ages until something happened. Then when I pressed update - bang - system rebooting!!
It rebooted until you see the blue background of the Windows screen before the log in window. Then - bang - system rebooting! It rebooted to the login again the next time. Minor difference: a pop up saying that Windows was unable to load DMusic.sys in the Windows sys32/drivers folder... The system got stuck in an endless rebooting loop.

I corrected the problem by starting Windows in safe mode and installing the newest DirectX (9.0c) drivers.

I cannot tell if this problem is entirely the result of a GA bug but this is the only conclusion I have right now. So I thought it was worth telling here.

Regar
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Err... did I mention that Winamp was running in the background? Maybe that has also caused my crashes before but never this severe. I always ended at the desktop.
Even after updating all components of GC the system will reboot after loading the save game when runnig winamp in the background!
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Even after updating all components of GC the system will reboot after loading the save game when runnig winamp in the background!


How about without WA?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Without WA it is running without problems so far. ( Have not had the time to play longer than a few minutes)