Minidump without Mods

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The issue I am suffering from is based on the Steam downloaded version of Trinity. I first launched trinity, and it ran about 5 minutes at a black screen, then I killed it and restarted. Nest, I launched it and it ran ten minutes at the black screen, and I alt-tabbed out and got a minidump. Same happened on the Entrenchment expansion and the base game itself. From what I've seen, most of the issues come from either bad files (verified install) or mods (none installed). So I have no clue what problem is going on, unless it's alt-tabbing during loading, but I'm absolutely sure that Sins doesn't take that long to load, since I've played it before on a different rig without problems. Thank you, Squire Zed.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Have you tried turning off the graphic loading screens? I have no idea if that could solve it, but it's an idea...

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

As this is the first day of the steam version its possible there could be something wrong with porting it to steam that Stardock didn't anticipate (it is their first game on it after all). It might be of use of them if you posted your specs.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

After fiddling, it seems the issue is the Steam overlay. While disappointing, the problem is easy enough to solve. Makes communication more difficult (I use Steam chat to coordinate games and such), but at least everything works now, right?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

ughhh. I bought this game on steam, and I can't play it all.  Minidump halts my progress on startup.  I've already uninstalled, defragged, then installed, and even verified the cache twice.  unbelievable.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Run the game from it's own exe, that seems to be the work around until everything gets sorted out...