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The only way to speed up starting the game is to run it off an SSD or Ramdisk. It'll still take a minute or so, though.<br/>
Switching themes takes a long time because it's basically purging all the current .txt files in memory and ...

No love?

Any help?

<r> Another few months go by, I check Steam and see an update, I try to play, and it crashes within twenty minutes. Again. It's been like this since I got the game a year ago. <br/>
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Pic is of the screen. <br/>
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Saved Game is uploaded with the name Synpax_New Geneoristy2331-10-04pause ...

Thanks.

I *believe* I turned off pirate respawning. I did make the game pretty difficult, but I didn't want it to be crazy. I started with a bunch of pirates, though.

This was all a common problem for me; crashing due to out of memory errors, etc.

<t> Any idea on how to go about resolving this crash? <br/>
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I actually am not getting the same crashes I got in the past - the out of memory errors. <br/>
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Although twice there were hard crash to desktops without any error messages at all, or the dreaded 'Distant Worlds Stopped ...

<t> It just crashed again. Same error. <br/>
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I'd really appreciate you giving my game a try; I was just about to conquer the blue humans (light blue in color) after loading and refueling the single-letter fleets of my own designed capitol ships. (A, B, C, etc.) AA, BB, CC, etc. are for ...

<t> The forum is not intuitive - the 'click to upload' is not available in the traditional and most intuitive place to add a file - on the text area / entry form at the bottom of the thread. The only way you can see that box is if you hit 'post reply.' <br/>
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Also, I am not allowed to post ...

According to Steam, it was updated to 1.9.5.9 four days ago. I am not using a beta.

Here is another crash causing bug with some really strange particulars.

i.imgur period com/f6x56pC.jpg

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I really like this game as is. I like it a LOT. The problem is it is Crashy McCrashPants.

If anyone is paying attention to this forum:

i.imgur(.)com/RFXNVPb.jpg

Remove the () since the forum won't let me add an image or post a link.

What's the point of having a forum if developers and support don't answer?

Also, I have a new crash problem. See here:

i.imgur(.)com/RFXNVPb.jpg

Remove the () since the forum won't let me add an image or post a link.

Any help, developers?

Are there developers here?

How is my game's setup any different from yours?

I did (originally) have the maximum number of empires but by the time of the save game, Only about nine or so remain.

Pirates were set to normal.

The game was set to hard.

By the way, how do you know my vid drivers are out of date? My preliminary check shows they are current.

<t> Ah, okay, cool. <br/>
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Thanks for being so helpful. <br/>
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Part of the reason I upgraded to this computer was I thought a better machine would run this game better, so you can imagine my frustration when my old game saves also crashed. So I started a NEW game on this system, went ...

<t> Thanks for your reply. <br/>
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I see this forum is as buggy as the game is. I tried to post a link but then it told me I couldn't post a link and asked if I wanted to go back. I did and it had erased my post. <br/>
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I am very aware this is a 32bit game limited by memory. <br/>
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<t> Here is the crash log (or the 'steam crash log') TXT file. The DXDialog is attached. <br/>
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1:53:06 AM Finalizer: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.<br/>
at DistantWorlds.Types.SteamAPI.Shutdown()2:33:41 AM Finalizer: System ...