Game lock up

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The game locked up @ turn #13. It doesn't matter what I click to select - nothing happens - even trying to get to the main menu to do a save and reload. This is the earliest lockup I've had with the Betas. I've seen other people complain about the games locking in previous Beta's. C'mon Stardock, figure out what's causing the lockups so people can play long enough to give you feed back.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You might wish to report this directly to Stardock via a ticket (many of us have reported lock ups and hangs on this level already).

One other thing to be aware of is how much RAM you have on your system. On my PC, with 16GB RAM, I have seen the OS assign as much as 6GB RAM to back up the virtual memory being used by everything I have running on it, including the game with a huge galaxy, all start up options set to values I expect to use maximum memory, and all 4 opponents, and this is only through the early game play. If you only have 4GB RAM you could be experiencing some serious (even crippling) page swapping.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, I just installed the latest Beta patch and it locked up again at turn #11.

Can't do anything, not even advance the turn.

Prior to the lockup I was trying to move a new colonizer that I just built.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

After a very recent conversation with the Stardock devs, another possibility has appeared. Just to see if it may help, try deleting your prefs.ini file. You will find it in

%userprofile%\Documents\My Games\GalCiv. 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work - it locked up again on turn #25.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well, I recognized that locked-up games mostly occure on small - large universe generations. Try 'huge' instead, this works fine for me currently.