World Annihilator Game Crash

[Cralis]

I just found, captured, and sent the world annihilator to blow up a continental world of my current opponent...

BOOM! YAY! GAME CRASH.

What?

I reloaded it twice more from autosave and it crashes. I saved it in a regular save and it crashes. I had it go to my world, refuel, then blow up an ocean moon. It crashes.

I'm using an Intel i5 with a Nvidia Geforce 310, realtek on-board sound card, 6 GB ram. I updated the drivers last weekend due to another game requiring a new sound driver. Perhaps it doesn't like one of those things?

[elliotg]

Which version of DW are you running?

Also, can you please post the error message of the crash?

[Cralis]

I am using the new version of DW, v1.03

The patch came out two days after I bought DW, and I didn't find the world annihilator before I patched. However, I started this game the day of the patch and played all day long to find the annihilator.

[Erik Rutins]

Cralis,

Was this game also started in 1.0.3 or continued from an older save?

[Cralis]

Sorry took to long to edit for what I knew was a question coming

It was started after the patch.

EDIT: And to answer the original question about the error message - I have no idea. I've long since deleted those autosave games. I've had some time off to play

[Cralis]

I think I've figured it out!

/sarcasm on The 1.0.3 World Annihilator is so powerful, the 1.0.2 universe cannot handle it! [:D] /sarcasm off

In all honesty, I don't know why the game I started after the patch crashes. HOWEVER, I loaded the game on my laptop and played a 1.0.2 game until I found the World Annihilator. Then I patched to 1.0.3, loaded the game, blasted a planet...and CRASH!

But I don't know why the 1.0.3 game on my desktop crashed. Maybe the World Annihilator is also too powerful for the 100 star universe?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the crash on my laptop corrupted the save file...I did save it before blasting a planet, and then when I tried to reload the game it didn't work. When I explored for the file it came up with a 0 byte size.

[Okim]

Having the same problem.

After blowing several planets with world annihilator my game crashed. I continued the game ignoring the window and noticed that some planet images were sometimes shifting (for example, barren became ice for a second and then turned back to barren).

Also i stumbled upon a crash after reencountering a just-defeated faction. The game crashed as soon as i clicked on that faction in diplomacy screen.

Another thing to report is a strange auto-upgrade of defensive bases. AI always tries to upgrade this particular design even if design is set to manual and previous defensive bases designes were deleted.

All these things can be found in OKIM-world-annihilator saved game that i have uploaded on your server. To reproduce the bug with reencountered defeated faction just destroy/capture/bombard any of the remaining faction last colonies (all 3 have 1-2 colonies left and each produced a reencounter-crash after i have wiped any of these factions).

PS: game was started after upgrading to 1.03 version. The game is running on a laptop with Vista.

[Cralis]

Oh yeah, good point. I'm running Win 7.

My laptop runs XP.