game crashs 100%

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My game crashs when I move my colony ship to sight of certain planet.
I saved the game just before my colony ship's sensor catchs the planet.
Changed some graphic settings, load the game , move the ship , crashs..
change something else, load move, crashs.. etc

I know there's a class 14 habitable planet in there because I exploered the map before I started to really play.
(generate the map, save, explore the map,then load)
So the first time I explored the map , there were no problem getting in the range of the planet.
But now getting near the planet crashs my game. Is my save game corrupted?

I'm using nVidia 6800GT ,Pentium4 2.4Ghz, SB audigy2 ,plenty of ram/hdd , and newest drivers.
I like this game and really want to play.
Any help is appriciated.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have you checked this thread? https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=274&AID=105107#817072
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My game crashes randomly and will crash 100% of the time if I Alt-TAB... I have "solved" this problem by setting my autosave to every 0 turns... when it does crash i at MOST have to replay the one turn. It doesnt randomly crash all that often, so its acceptable... My dumb AIM keeps alt-tabbing it...
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
If you're getting crashes not explianed/solved by the thread linked by Medwynd above, post the debug.err file found in your galciv2 folder (C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv 2\ or C:\Program Files\Stardock\GalCiv 2\ by default) it can help the devs to figure out your problem.

Also, download SmartException from the 'Free Stuff' section in SDC, and run it while you play GC2. Then when it crashes SE will gather some information about the crash. You can then do a search in windows explorer for a file named galciv2.exe.cra, this file will contain SE's report which you should also post.