I've just posted this on tech support forum, I hope it is all right if I do it here as well. Although I would class this as a "major" bug, it does not happen regularly, or with any pattern:
Laptop
AMD 64 3400
1024 RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility 128 MB
The game runs quite well. However, sometimes when I tried loading a saved game, it crashes. Loads fine, and it is on End Turn. I click on any city to make the unit active, and the PC reboots. When it boots up again, I get Microsoft message saying how Windows recovered from a serious error, with output:
BCCode : 1000007f BCP1 : 00000008 BCP2 : 80042000 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\Admin\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb314.dir00\Mini 110605-03.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Admin\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb314.dir00\sysd ata.xml
I tried not clicking on the unit, but just ending the turn, game goes through all other civilizations, asks what is next to be built and what tech to be researched, but as soon as it reaches for a unit to be active, same thing. Before that, I can "surf" the map, I can bring any advisor I want, or view anything in the game, but it bombs out as soon as a unit becomes active.
However, I loaded the latest autosave - worked fine?!
I thought it was a one-off, I played for few hours, saved it, tried loading it again few minutes ago, bang. Same thing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, I could not find a pattern, though.