Game Crashes to Desktop after Winning Battles?

**Wyrdlight** · March 30, 2009, 07:39 AM

This has happed 7 or 8 times now in the last few days, after winning a battle, land or naval as the score sheet appears the game crashes to desktop saying it has encountered a problem...

Why is the game doing this, it ran perfectly since release with no problems and now suddenly it goes wrong?

Any ideas?

**Turbo** · March 30, 2009, 07:54 AM

Its a very common reported bug with Empire. The game is buggy and unstable right now. The last patch introduced new bugs so that may be the cause.

Lets hope CA's new patch actually fixes the problem instead of worsening it.

**damunk** · March 30, 2009, 07:58 AM

Blame CA(nada)

No srsly though, your not the only one. I'm having the same problem since the patch. CA told us that we should try and turn our sound effects off.

**NightFire** · March 30, 2009, 09:50 AM

I got this as well,someone mentioned in the bugs report thread that waiting 10 seconds or long after you got the victory/defeat message you will not crash,i managed to survive 4 big fights this way without it crashing!After the last patch i could not finish 2 battles without it crashing after winning.

**Jihada** · March 30, 2009, 10:19 AM

Yeah no crashes now.Just wait at least 10 secs when the close/decisive etc victory screen comes up. If you have the insufficient memory CTD refer to MadBoris' thread on that.

**víkingur** · March 30, 2009, 12:37 PM

I've been having the same problem. Extreeeemly annoying.

**liquid crystal** · March 30, 2009, 06:05 PM

Same problem here. Won 4 battles during the computers turn to just have it crash on me. Has happened countless other times. I'll be sure to wait the 10 sec. Nothing like having 2 hours worth of work just disappear.

Can't understand how it is a memory issue. I would have thought that 4 GB of RAM would have been sufficient. I'll be out of town for a week hopefully this is fixed by the time I get back

**Jihada** · March 31, 2009, 12:47 AM

OMG thr new patch fixed the end of battles crash which was easily fixed waiting 10 seconds at the victory screen. Now battle sounds are totally bugged again ..worked fine before.