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I bought RFTS a few days ago by digital download and it does nothing but crash to desktop, regardless of turn, setup, race ect, i have tried many different ways of setting it up but it seems it does not matter, i run an amd sempron 1.7g, geforce fx5200, 512ddr all upto date drivers, like rfts and have played it since the old apple versions so would like to play this one too, any help would be appreciated,

thanks, dlotus.

Have you installed the 1.41 patch?

the digital download comes with all patches, so yes it is at version 1.41. It also freezes in mp with the computer symbol and yellow ball going around it.

Sorry that I can't help. It looks like you will have to contact Erik Rutins directly.

ORIGINAL: dlotus

the digital download comes with all patches, so yes it is at version 1.41. It also freezes in mp with the computer symbol and yellow ball going around it.

I've had the problem with the ball thing occuring at all points in game, it was fine until I patched to 1.41

When I get around to It I'll uninstall and re-install to pre-1.41

I think 1.41 patch may have broke something..

Hmm, well if that is the case im buggered before i start cause the Digital Download comes as v1.41 so i guess im screwed and the admins wont respond...

dlotus,

Alex at SSG is looking into this. In the meantime, can you post a DxDiag file for us? (instructions are pinned to the top of this forum). Thanks.

Regards,

- Erik

Thanks for responding to the post Erik, I hope they can sort this problem out, I've attached the dxdiag info to this post.

I am having the same problem with the ball around the computer when in a multiplayer game with other computer players.
I d/l 1.41 via dig d/l yesterday.

yup, well i found a short fix for that but it still crashes just not as often, what i've worked out is after a certain number of colonists (or colonist building) is built it will crash depending (not 100% sure of this) but if you set your multi game to start in early colonisation (not sure if it works for the other types of starting options) you will get a game to last longer not sure of how long. My multi has lasted upto 190 turns before it crashes, and since i havent heard back from Erik from here or AlexS from SSG i have no idea what to do to try and solve it totally. Erik please tell me if they are still working on it for me or whats going on.

Thanks
Dlotus

As far as I know, they are still working on it. I will check in with Alex tonight to see when they expect to be able to release an update.

Regards,

- Erik

Was the version before 1.41 more stable for multiplayer games using random game?
If so is there any chance of obtaining the earlier version until this problem is solved?