Lemaitre77

Reply to 3 different computers, all black screen/minidump crash, game unplayable in Technical Stardock Forums

I bit the bullet and purchased the $20 Rebellion game and it works fine. Conspiracy theorists would say this is deliberate to push you into buying the latest and greatest instead of the old game pack.

Reply to 3 different computers, all black screen/minidump crash, game unplayable in Technical Stardock Forums

I hope that this is an anomaly for Stardock and I do remember playing a very well-done Sins game a while ago, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt here. I think you are on to something about the installer - my installation is 64mb on the XP and the Win7 machines (I'm near those atm), which is obviously too small. It is amusing/annoying that the 1.1gb or so installer results in a 64mb installation. XP, Win7, Win8 - ATI, nVidia, Intel graphics - all fail. I did fre

3 different computers, all black screen/minidump crash, game unplayable in Technical Sins Forums

I played Sins a while ago and had fun (not sure how many years ago) so I purchased the Trinity pack for $9.99 on sale and was looking forward to a few hours of fun. Instead I am terribly disappointed in Stardock. I have installed this game on THREE different machines and NONE of them can get past the black screen at start/minidump crash. It's ridiculous. I updated to latest video drivers on all three, disabled intro movies, and get nothing but a black scre