Crash during Tutorial

[lhotka]

Hi,

The game crashes my entire machine during the city screen part of the tutorial. Once it was a warm crash - the second was a cold crash (system powered off).

Any thoughts?

Doug

P.S. More information - updated to 1.52, then it crashed later on. I tried starting a new game, and it hard crashed my machine once more. I'm now switching to omegadrivers to see if that helps.

Thinkpad R50p
Windows XP SP2 current patches
2 GB RAM
ATI MOBILITY FIREGL T2
1600x1200 (native) 32 bit color

 

[lhotka]

I changed to the Omega Drivers, which postponed the crash a bit. Then I uninstalled VMWare, and was able to play for several hours without a problem. It looks like the DRM stuff doesn't like any virtual drivers on the machine of any kind.

OK Guys - I'm a strong IP guy (working on patents and such myself). But you know that the cracks are going to be out within moments of release. Why screw up the world for the rest of us with DRM that doesn't really prevent much anyway? Set a reasonable price, and be done with it. People who pirate the program wouldn't buy it anyway, but lot's of folks won't buy it now because it crashes windows!