Game becoming more unstable as game progressing

[Armchair Shark]

I am playing as Maratha on long campaign and got to about 1767. Initially in the early game got the occasional CTD about every 4-6 hours of play, towards the middle game it was crashing every 2 hours, now it crashes every 10-20 minutes. Is there some kind of memory leak in this game ? The further a game progresses the more unstable it becomes.

I am using Vista 32bit on a duo core 6700 at 2.66Hz, 2Gb RAM, with an nvidia 8800 GTX packing 768Mb.

Vista is the most wretched operating system ever written, does anything ever run properly on it !!

[hardcore_hibee84]

id liek o feel sorry for you but im even worse, im 3turns of victory and it just wont end turn, just CTDs right after everyones go, kinda heartbreakin seen as ive poured hours into it

[Warmaker]

Playing long campaign also but with Russia. I succeeded in a Revolution and I'm in 1772. It CTD's after a variety of actions.
* Auto-Resolving Sieges
* Declaring War
* Succeeding in a battle that I manually play

It pretty much grinds EVERYTHING to a halt as far as progress goes. I was hoping to do one last offensive to get the provinces I need to win the campaign but I guess I am, as people say, "Sh!t out of luck" with this bugfest of a game.

[green tea]

I am playing as Maratha on long campaign and got to about 1767. Initially in the early game got the occasional CTD about every 4-6 hours of play, towards the middle game it was crashing every 2 hours, now it crashes every 10-20 minutes. Is there some kind of memory leak in this game ? The further a game progresses the more unstable it becomes.

I am using Vista 32bit on a duo core 6700 at 2.66Hz, 2Gb RAM, with an nvidia 8800 GTX packing 768Mb.

Vista is the most wretched operating system ever written, does anything ever run properly on it !!

This is not a problem of Vista, but one of Empire. And there is a memory leak issue, someone (Madboris) wrote a workaround (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=238484), and CA is working on this issue. But even if you had fixed this, there would still be lots of other bugs that would make it unplayable. I made a poll here to find out how many are suffering from this, because it seems that some can actually play the game till the end without bugs. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240900