Bug: United Planets CRASH

Have you downloaded any user mods?

There's a known UP Issue crash bug if a defined name is malformed. This may or may not be your problem. To eliminate this known issue as the source of your crash, do this:

1) Launch GalCiv.
2) Load saved game.
3) Alt-Tab back to desktop.
4) Find debug.err in the Galactic Civilizations directory.
5) Open debug.err in Notepad.
6) Look for PARSE ERRORS. If this is your problem, there will be a whole slew of them. Only the first one is of any importance (the parsing error cascades after the first bad file).
7) Note the file that is bad, this is the one to fix.

If it is a user mod, I'd suggest deleting it. You might try fixing it yourself, the problem will be with the name in the header. Header names can not a) lead off with a numeric, may not have any spaces, c) must contain only alpha/numeric/underscore characters.

If it is a base GalCiv file, post the file name here along with your e-mail addy, and I'm sure someone will be able to e-mail you a good version of the file.

Of course, if you find no PARSE ERRORS, none of this will fix your problem.

Good luck.

~SDC~

If that doesn't solve your problem, and you have Smart Exception installed, (it's under free stuff in Stardock central) e-mail me the SE report. It would be called galciv.exe.cra.

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