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The games will close with no notice - I thought it was my older graphics card being overwhelmed so I saved it a few times per turn.

I have a new tower - with plenty of RAM and a good graphics card - and it will still close without notice. I tried scrolling around a large map with plenty of cities and that only uses about 6% of CPU usage.

I looked at the crash log, but it's Greek to me. What should I be looking for in the crash log? it it this last line?

Open TOAW log.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Matrix Games\The Operational Art of War IV\Opart 4.exe"
Version 4,1,0,40
There is 48 percent of memory in use.
There are 33380984 total KB of physical memory.
There are 17165172 free KB of physical memory.
There are 38623864 total KB of paging file.
There are 14373992 free KB of paging file.
There are 2097024 total KB of virtual memory.
There are 141932 free KB of virtual memory.
There are 0 free KB of extended memory.

Is it here?
StackTrace:ERROR: SymGetLineFromAddr64, GetLastError: 487 (Address: 76A1DF24)

ERROR: SymGetLineFromAddr64, GetLastError: 487 (Address: 76A1DF24)

StackTrace:76A1DF24 (KERNELBASE): (filename not available): RaiseException

76A1DF24 (KERNELBASE): (filename not available): RaiseException

Is it a new install?

Yes - new program install/updated.

I had the old Documents folder uploaded, so I haven't ruled out that the scenario I'm in isn't the issue.

Is the tower the only new thing? I know this sounds like something we've heard a million times but update all drivers.
You could try this to allocate more memory:

Start The Operationa Art of War IV

Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del.

Click the DETAILS tab.

Find Opart.

Right-click and go to Set priority. Pick your priority (High, Realtime, etc.).

Confirm your selection by choosing Change priority.

Remember Windows will allocate more RAM and CPU to Opart, it will reduce system RAM available to other apps.

GAC

Think extended memory refers to a RAM architecture used back in the DOS and early Windows days. No longer used, thus none available.