New build in here, thanks guys

downloaded and i play later tonight

Good to hear. (It's always the simple ones that cause the most grief!)

Oh and there are a few other gameplay tweaks in there to tone the AI down a bit while making him a bit more intelligent at the same time.

If this is the executable 2367539 bytes in size, it still does a CTD when clicking on "Details" for a Class 16 planet.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

i/m playing the new version and clinking on the details on a class 16 planet gets me to the details screen, haven't had a crash on beta 4 (did a complete install)
and i've been playing on small and gigantic sizes (playing good or neutral)

hey brad should i have battle transport installed? Here's the last debug file from the newest (tonights)build
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: Game Initialization completed.
Debug Message: Creating cutscene window.
Debug Message: Creating soundtrack handler.
Debug Message: Creating movie handler.
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Scanning sprites.
Debug Message: Scanning Models.
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\model2d.cpp at line 2400.
Debug Message: Animation Small has 17 frames of animation, which does not divide evenly into 32 facings.
Debug Message: Scanning bitmaps.
Debug Message: Initializing Galaxy.
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Battleship for ship type BattleTransport. ***
Debug Message: Begin creating other screens.
Debug Message: Initialize Game Options.
Debug Message: Creating Galaxy
Debug Message: Set galaxy size.
Debug Message: Reading Star Names
Debug Message: AI-X: Found no places to send my colony ship.

I had the same problem with the details screen... then I did a full re-install and was fine... for a bit. When I hit detila for a class 19, 20, 26 and 28 it works for... but 16 and 17 don't(I don't have 22 or 18 yet...) I don't have smart exception(win2k) but I have the debug.err message(I copied it a few lines above the first error I saw...)

Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file c:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file c:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Scanning sprites.
Debug Message: Scanning Models.
ASSERT ERROR in file c:\projects\pear\source\model2d.cpp at line 2400.
Debug Message: Animation Small has 17 frames of animation, which does not divide evenly into 32 facings.
Debug Message: Scanning bitmaps.
Debug Message: Posting WM_CLOSE message.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start

Hope this helps :notsure:

battle transport is fine (wipe and full re-install)
have the same debug info as DarkHelmet but cut screen for research (communications theory) is blank

Don't know about the details screen problem. I've added it to the list.