Crash after Intro sequence Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2004 Just installed this game through Stardock. First time I start it up, watch the intro, get to title screen fine. Decide I should probably look at the manual before I start playing. Notice that the "Quit" button is faded out and doesn't respond to being clicked. Strange bug, I think, and use Alt-F4 to quit out. Now the game crashes everytime after the intro. The Political Machine mouse cursor reappears, but the title screen doesn't reappear before I get the Windows XP Submit a Error report dialogue. The music continues to play. Running Windows XP SP 1 (might try with SP2 later, I have nothing else to do now). AMD Athlon 1GHz, 768Mb RAM. Radeon 9100 series graphics card, with 128Mb RAM (I think; it is certainly well other 16Mb). Going to try and get Stadock to reinstall the game now. Here is the SmartException report; although I notice it doesn't recognise The Political Machine. Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------------------------------------- OS Version : Windows XP Video Card : RADEON 9100 SERIES Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Crash Addr: 0053B1E0 01:0013A1E0 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe Processor Registers (x86): EAX:00000009 EBX:00000000 ECX:0012FE00 EDX:0A01C670 ESI:09F3786C EDI:0000001E CS:EIP:001B:0053B1E0 SS:ESP:0023:0012FE04 EBP:0012FE20 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000 Flags:00010202 Current Application Call Stack: Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name --------------------------------------------- 0053B1E0 0012FE20 0001:0013A1E0 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe 0053DD3B 0012FE2C 0001:0013CD3B C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe 00503697 0012FE98 0001:00102697 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe 00659B32 0012FFC0 0001:00258B32 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe 77E814C7 0012FFF0 0001:000204C7 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll Debug information for each stardock app follows ....