<t> Marc,<br/>
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Having worked in a dev environment, you should know that there are many possible causes for software crashes. Consider the number of variables the application needs to account for, processor, OS, DirectX, external libraries (just to name a small few). If any one of those ...

Same values - Some time later I checked back and there was 1m population.

<r> I had conquered the Atuuk homeworld, and was working my way through their colonies when I noticed an odd thing. Despite having no remaining Atuuk citizens anywhere in the galaxy, they were listed as the dominant race of their empire with a population of 1m. Shortly later I had finished mopping ...

Is there any way to modify the default blueprints for the auto-designer? Specifically, I'd like to have the auto-designer leave on the weaponry I give my civilian stations.

Well, not so much "solved". I knew about the application specific mixer settings, but it's a band-aid solution. This should still be considered a bug.

I set the sliders for music and effects all the way to zero, yet menus continue to beep. A minor bug, but annoying nonetheless.

My issue was a little more involved. It seems .Net was damaged, and since it's a core system I couldn't simply reinstall it.

In the end I reinstalled W7 from scratch. Now the game works under XP SP2 Compatibility.

Now to kill off all those damn Darloks...

<t> princej, can you run services.msc and see if Microsoft .NET Framework NGEN v2.0.50727_X64 or Microsoft .NET Framework NGEN v2.0.50727_X86 is running? I'm beginning to suspect that might be the issue - at least for me.<br/>
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Data: Unfortunately the only other non-work machine is my wife's ...

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Thank you, a pleasure to be here [:)]. So far the game hasn't worked at all. A fresh install, without patching, results in the first error. Patching or installing the expansion results in the second.<br/>
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cookie monster: <br/>
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I've tried various ways of fixing ...

<t> Addendum:<br/>
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After installing ROTS the following error is thrown when attempting to launch the game:<br/>
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Description:<br/>
Stopped working<br/>
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Problem signature:<br/>
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3<br/>
Problem Signature 01: distantworlds.exe<br/>
Problem Signature ...

<r> I've tried following the other suggestions in the thread with no luck.<br/>
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I'm on Windows 7 64bit. <br/>
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So far no nothing I've done has resulted in successfully loading the game. I've turned .Net 3.5.1 off and on, uninstalled the game, reinstalled. <br/>
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The error ...