Upgrading my Starbase causes my game to crash

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Whenever I upgrade this one mining space station the game crashes within a couple of seconds, I haven't tested this with other space stations. I know it only happening when I upgrade the space station, The rest of the game runs fine. Please help me figure what to do to fix it? By the way I have Vista and Nvidia Geforce 7900 gtx with AMD 64 dual core FX-60.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is this for GC2 or DA?

Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Debug Message: Version v1.50 Dark Avatar last updated on: Fri Feb 9 14:05:57 2007
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aside: Interesting that you're not experiencing the Vista+nVidia "Error flipping back buffer" crash that the majority of Vista+nVidia users are.

Please do try reproducing the crash. Does it happen with other starbases? If so, does it only occur on other mining bases, or any base?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I tested with an influence mine and sure enough when I upgraded it it crashed again. So I tested it with to different types of mines, and have retry many time by reloading my save, But It keep crashes when I upgrade! Kind Of a bummer being my first game and all!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Some new interesting news I started a new game and did a moral mine upgrade and it worked. But they I once I again did Influence mine upgrade and it crashed. So I'm seeing that only Ecom and Influ crash my games. I starting to guess this is not on my end and that there some bug in my version. I'll try a reinstall. But this is turning out very weird