You are a god send, thx. works for me

I think Hoshiko meant to turn your settings down to medium for the meantime. Remeber this is just a Beta and we need to help Iron Clad find and fix all these bugs and minidumps.

So my q6600 OC'd to 3.4gig with 2 XFX 8800gt xXx Alpha dog editions sli'd with 4gig 1066 OCZ Reaper ram on an EVGA 680i running Vista 64.  Needs to turn down the graphics to play so I don't get this 10 minute mini dump? I just want to make sure I understand this correctly.  Cause I have no problem running Crysis or any other game.  I paid the $9.95 for Entrenchment and now come to understand its not finnished, but I sure wish it would have said that in the info when I purchased cause I would have waited. I love this game and appreciate Stardock for all their hard work, but I don't like paying for something that isn't finished.  So the only option is turn down the graphics?? I have the latest Drivers for everything. Not a happy camper stardock.

My apologies JugernautX, the game is still in beta.

Same thing for me but only happens when playing as the TEC. Ten minutes in, I minidump. I can play as Advent or Vasari fine. 

i keep getting this error even before i can completely launch it is just a black screen

Saved MiniDump

 C:\DOCUME~1\JAMESD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Sins Dump\Sins-Entrenchment beta 1.1-2009-01-0302104901903396-6496.dmp

o and im running a q9300 with a ASUS p5kc (p35 chipset) radeon 4870x2 and 2 gigs of DDR2

You really didn't know this was beta? 

When do they start to charge for a beta? If I knew it was still in Beta I would have waited.  Where does it say its a beta when they are advertising it? I didn't see anything about that until after I bought it, loaded it up and went to play my first game, then I see a blurp in the bottom saying its not completed and more will be added later.  I turned my ships graphics down to high and that seemed to help but I still ended up with a mini dump about 1hr in.  Just alittle peaved about paying for an unfinished and mostly untested program.  I know its only $10 but its still my $10.

I can play games up to 3 hours, I've done this on two seperate computers. One is a laptop, 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo, with a quadra graphics card, and 3 gb of ram, vista ultimate sp1, and i get about 3.5 hours into the game, saving periodically, but also i have usually quit to do something else for th time being then going back. I have yet to play a singe game for more than 3 hours, partly because of mines...  The other computer is a quad i7 2.67 GHz, 4 GB ram, and an HD Radeon 4870, vista business 64bit, and Again at 3.5 hours ish, i get the saved minidum thing. These were on huge and large maps with 6 and 5 Ai's respectively. RAM is not the problem, since I also have 1.5 gb free on my tower when I am playing. I thought the problem was me saving and quitting the game, and returning to it, but i'm not so sure about that now. Oh, and I sometimes get it when I save and the try and return to the menu.

I am having this issue, but it happens right when hte game starts up, and i no that i can play hte game on max graphics iwthout a issue, i have updated drivers and palyed with the graphics resulutions and many other settings and i got nothing, regular sins runs fine here are my computer specs any ideas guys?

I was thinking maybe it was windows 7, but why would sins run fine then????

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System Information
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Time of this report: 9/20/2009, 19:23:08
       Machine name: BOB-ALLIANCE-PC
   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7100) (7100.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: MSI
       System Model: MS-7350
               BIOS: Default System BIOS
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  @ 2.33GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
             Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3072MB RAM
          Page File: 944MB used, 5196MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7100.0000 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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      Display Tab 1: The file nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).  You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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          Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GTX 275
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E6&SUBSYS_11763842&REV_A1
     Display Memory: 3053 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 1773 MB
      Shared Memory: 1279 MB
       Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (59Hz)
       Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
      Monitor Model: AL2016W
         Monitor Id: ACRAD64
        Native Mode: 1680 x 1050(p) (59.954Hz)
        Output Type: DVI
        Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Driver File Version: 8.16.0011.9089 (English)
     Driver Version: 8.16.11.9089
        DDI Version: 10
       Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
  Driver Attributes: Final Retail
   Driver Date/Size: 8/27/2009 03:41:08, 7606784 bytes
        WHQL Logo'd: No
    WHQL Date Stamp: None
  Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-46A6-11CF-7378-7D311EC2C535}
          Vendor ID: 0x10DE
          Device ID: 0x05E6
          SubSys ID: 0x11763842
        Revision ID: 0x00A1