Beta 2 stability regression?

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Life got rather busy for me, and I finally got around to pounding hard on the 0.21 beta this weekend. It's possible that it's only my imagination, or that since there was more to test, the games were lasting longer, but while I had been able to finish games at the end of Beta 1, I never came close in the latest version of the code. I was seeing CDTs after a few (several?) hundred turns and save files that wouldn't load. Are other people seeing this as well? Unfortunately, I didn't think of checking the SmartException details.

Other than that, I noticed times when I'd loose the "next turn" button until I'd click on a planet or do something else to gain the program's attention, and once, it just ran off into la-la land and never responded to anything.

I haven't seen anything in the forum to suggest that anyone else has seen this, which is the only reason that I'm the least bit concened. Then again, it could just be that I need to open up the case and blow the cat hair out of the CPU fan again.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have found beta 2 to be less stable than beta 1 as well, I imagine it's because the build is simply more complicated. Judging by the stardock journals they are working hard on finding the causes. There are threads about it but at this point it's not something to get too worked up over. There are another two phases of beta testing still to go, amd more features to go in. Crashes at this stage I'm not worried about, there is a long way still to go before the release version.

Best thing to do is install SmartException and send Stardock the crash reports, that's what the Beta is for!
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh, agreed, I'm not worried so much as curious.
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