I am running SEIV Gold 1.67 on Win2KPro SP2 and am having a 'Range Check Error' during the AI turn, when Player 12 plays. Then the game just stays there until I Alt-F4 out to the desktop. I am not using any mods at all, the game is installed just as Malfador intended, playing as human, all default, small quadrant, hard difficulty, Lots of enemies.
I've seen this happen all the time with 1.60 during
my turn, when I destroy everything on a planet then right-click on it to see its status. I get the 'Range Check Error', then empty windows where the planet status should be displayed, but nothing seemed to be harmed and I could continue playing without reloading. But this error happens during the AI turn and the game stops.
I don't keep old saves, I save once at the beginning of the turn and once at the end, to reduce cheating, I only reload when I misclick. I tried reloading both saves about 3-4 times and always get the RCE, like something happens to Player 12 in any case and the randomness factor wouldn't let him avoid it. Or maybe it's something that happens right after Player 12's turn, before the message is erased, don't know.
Anyone else saw this? I found a few Messages on this board related to this error, but the Last one is more than a year old, so this seems to be new (or maybe a fact of life for the old-timers?
). Haven't tried reinstalling yet, I was, ahem, rather late for work already
I'd hate to scrap this campaign, it was finally hard, started getting attacked during the Escort and Frigate era, was a lot of fun, even more so now that I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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