[1.2] FE crashes on OS X under Parallels / XP

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Hello,

Is there anyone else out there running FE from their Mac under Parallels / XP (32-bit)?  I get a fair number of crashes when I run FE with 1.20; any attempt to reload during a game leads to a crash, but that's fine: no one should do that anyway. :-P   However, the more frustrating thing is that it periodically just crashes at the end of a turn once things start to get going.  Reloading from a recent save generally doesn't lead to the same crash, but I sometimes get a crash a turn or two earlier or later after the reload.  Playing for 2 hours might lead to 6 crashes or as few a 1 or 2.

I tried the /3GB trick (https://forums.elementalgame.com/434358) but that led to the same problem that Phidrae had (Reply #10).  I tried using Game Booster as suggested by Glazunov1 in that same thread but that didn't seem to help.  

I've considered upgrading to Win7 or Win8, but $100 is a lot just play one game :-)  However, it's a testament to how great this game is that I'd even consider that :-D

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Have you tried playing with auto-turn not enabled? I know back during beta when I turned that off, my number of crashes reduced significantly.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

@Leo in WI:

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, I don't think it really reduced the number of crashes appreciably for me.  It seems like i just get to points in the game where a crash is likely to come, but it won't reproduce exactly on a reload.  This doesn't prevent me from playing FE, but it is, uhm, sub-optimal :-)

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Bummer. Hopefully someone else has an idea, or ideally a dev takes a closer look. Best of luck to you!