Thank you for your advice. In the event, I have decided that my PC is old enough to warrant replacement, so I am doing that. Hopefully the problem will go away on the new PC

Have not really been able to determine more detailed information. Best I can offer is:

GPU - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series - Primary/Discrete
VRAM - 3072 MB - GDDR5 1250 MHz
Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Device ID - 679A
Vendor ID - 1002 ...

AMD Radeon R9 200

I suppose that is possible. But against it is the fact that it only happens with Distant Worlds 2, not with any other game or application

I enjoyed the original version of Distant Worlds tremendously. I was very pleased to see that Distant Worlds 2 was available and bought it when it was released. Unfortunately, it was unplayable, crashing as soon as I zoomed in on any sort of combat. I came back about every month to see if the ...