Just installed this game through Stardock.
First time I start it up, watch the intro, get to title screen fine. Decide I should probably look at the manual before I start playing. Notice that the "Quit" button is faded out and doesn't respond to being clicked. Strange bug, I think, and use Alt-F4 to quit out.
Now the game crashes everytime after the intro. The Political Machine mouse cursor reappears, but the title screen doesn't reappear before I get the Windows XP Submit a Error report dialogue. The music continues to play.
Running Windows XP SP 1 (might try with SP2 later, I have nothing else to do now). AMD Athlon 1GHz, 768Mb RAM. Radeon 9100 series graphics card, with 128Mb RAM (I think; it is certainly well other 16Mb).
Going to try and get Stadock to reinstall the game now.
Here is the SmartException report; although I notice it doesn't recognise The Political Machine.
Stardock SmartException Logging Information
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OS Version : Windows XP
Video Card : RADEON 9100 SERIES
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 0053B1E0 01:0013A1E0 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe
Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000009
EBX:00000000
ECX:0012FE00
EDX:0A01C670
ESI:09F3786C
EDI:0000001E
CS:EIP:001B:0053B1E0
SS:ESP:0023:0012FE04 EBP:0012FE20
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010202
Current Application Call Stack:
Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
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0053B1E0 0012FE20 0001:0013A1E0 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe
0053DD3B 0012FE2C 0001:0013CD3B C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe
00503697 0012FE98 0001:00102697 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe
00659B32 0012FFC0 0001:00258B32 C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming.net\PolMachine\PolMachine.exe
77E814C7 0012FFF0 0001:000204C7 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
Debug information for each stardock app follows ....
