Ok, this one was weird. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary before this bug arose. I researched "Concepts Of Malice", then researched "Zero G Sports Arena", and started researching the final Moral/Happiness upgrade. My constructor might have gotten to the moral base im not for sure though. I had over 20,000 in the bank, and averaging around 800+ money per turn before this happend. The sliders are in the same place as when it happend also so you can see that in the screen shot.
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I updated my video drivers and the game..again, also did the collectors edition this time. Been a day or so with out a crash. So im thinking its pretty much fixed.
I've also played the same sized game you have. And I also have an X2 processor. During the turns the game moves all the ships currently in route to a destination, one at a time. So it really doesn't matter if you have a super-processor, turn length is dependant on how many ships you have on the field that are moving to a destination. Fewer ships moving equals fast moves, more ships equals greater turn length. This also applies to AI ships that are cur
OK, this game atleast for me crashes ALOT. It happends at the beginning of my turn or it'll just freeze up when doing it's auto save feature. Doesn't happen all the time, but enough to get really annoying seeing when it freezes I have to manual turn off my computer to get it un-froozen. I have all the updates for the game. And running a custom build computer which has dual GeForce 6600 video cards, 1GB ram, Windows Xp Home, AMD Athlon X2 3800+, with an