Tried to update, now it won't load

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I have the retail version of Sins, and it's been installed since I got it, and it was updated to 1.05 and everything ran perfectly. Today I decided to update the game, and realised that I hade to install Impulse, so I do that and update Sins through that which causes no problems. Everything seems fine until I try to load the game.

It only opens a small window in the upper left corner and nothing happens. Game won't load and says something about a minidump. So I uninstall the game, Impulse and delete the Stardock folder in my program files, then restart my pc. I re install Sins from the disk and it won't work. I get the same problem. So I install the 1.05 patch that I had downloaded, and again, same problem. I've tried it another time to no avail and am wondering if anyone knows what happened?

I have a q6600 with 4 gigs of ram and a 9870. It worked fine before this. Please help.

Edit: I also updated all my drivers and that didn't help either.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

are there no error messages that pop up?

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Not until I manually close the window, then it says where the minidump was saved.

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

go to "user.setting" file and go to "showerrors" and change it to TRUE

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

minidumps are usually related to mods either with errors OR for an earlier version.

you could also try renaming your mods folder

 for xp
C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\mods

or here for vista/windows 7
C:\Users\'user name'\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\mods

NOTE the first two folders after the 'user name' are hidden , so to see them you must first click on 'tools' then 'folder options', then 'view', then click on 'show hidden files& folders' then click ok, then you will be able to browse your want to the folder. I suggest when you find the folder that you create a shortcut to it on the desktop

NOTE 2 the 'user name' if the above paths is you WINDOWS log in user name, eg Administrator

hope this helps

harpo

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the replies, but neither of those fixes worked for me. As for the showerrors, there wasn't even an entry titled showerrors so I added one and it still didn't work.