I'm getting the same crash in all of my games. Seems to happen whenever an ai empire goes down at the hands of another ai empire.

This sucks.

Did you check to see if the planet in question had planetary shields?

Not asking to be a jerk - I once spent 15 minutes bombarding a planet in confusion before I noticed the shields.

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I could kill ground forces with bombardment with the .04 beta. Haven't tried with the most recent patch.

When you lower the volume for sound effects, it doesn't lower the volume on the various menu beeps.

Not much of an issue, but I like to play music in the background while playing and those BEEPS can get grating.

Worked fine for me.