At Game Turn 149, first appearance of an anomaly in the shape of a diamond, attempted to click on it to ascertain what is was and game then froze. Had to close game, two further attempts to restart failed so have opted in for Beta 5.1.
Not good so far, on reloading saved game suffered immediate crash when I clicked on one of my starbases.
Well, this time clicked on 'Turn' button, actioned one 'Idle Ship" then froze - not impressed with 5.1 so far!!
There's another person reporting a somewhat similar crash - for him the game crashes when he mouses over the anomaly.
Please check out the link in this thread. In addition to some advice for getting the game working, at the bottom of the page the link takes you to there's information on how to open a support ticket. The developers are very focused on fixing crashes so they'd appreciate the information (like the crash dump file) that you could provide.
Game ran OK with a new game
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