Thank you Dan, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I know the option your talking about, The Abbydos system. It's the "burned out" class 2 planet choice. No, I'm referring to ANY race I run into. In the Diplomacy screen under report...it will show all information about that race EXCEPT home world. That always reads "None." It even reads "None" when I check the report on my own race. Now, I've created every one of these races. They all have normal Home Worlds. I've given them myself, lol. Why won't it show the name of the Home world? I've used every choice as a home world EXCEPT Abbydos. Any ideas? Anyone?

Hi Dan. Yes, it happens every game. I only use Insane size maps and I am using 1.03, with no mods. .I don't know how to check my PC memory ATM? Not sure what that means. Also, when I hold the cursor over an alien world, the name is there. It's just not in the reports screen. How do I open a ticket? 

Dan, it reads Memory 1.9/8.0 GB (24%).

Is that good? Lol, sorry...I'm not computer savvy.

if you have eight gigs of memory you should probably not using bigger maps than huge maps. You should set your paging file to 24 gigs.

Echillion, I did submit a ticket.  Should I message Derek as well? If so, how?

Admiral, why do you say I should stay with huge? I never use less than Immense, and usually always Insane. I run 49 factions with between 200-300 planets. Never had any issues. No crashes. If I feel it starts to lag, I just save and close out. Then I run CCleaner and restart. Works every time. Am I facing issues down the road? I've never run past turn 185...just get bored and start a new game. 

I dont' know what "set paging file to 24 gigs" means, lol?

Finally...yes, I always pick a homeworld for my customs. 

Thanks for everyone's help. 

Bottom line, should I be concerned? 

go to the support part of the forum and find any of Dereks threads click on the thread then on Dereks profile pic and either message him via the forum private message system or email him both otions are there mate - hope this helps be aware the stardock staff are on annual holiday this week so may have to wait for a reply.

By the way, I just thought of this...I have never played a game past turn 185. I always use 50 factions on an Insane map. The point is, I have not yet had a UP meeting. I was told I have to meet half the races to qualify. Could this have anything to do with it?

Well, there is physical ram and then virtual memory which uses space from your harddrive (solid state drive, or whatever mass storage you have).  The standard amount of virtual memory that windows allocates should be fine for huge maps and smaller.  As well, windows default is that it will dynamically increase your VM as needed.....but honestly, I dont trust dynamic allocation, never have.  But if you want to change your VM:

Control Panel -> system -> Advanced system settings -> Advanced tab -> Performance Settings button -> Advanced Tab -> Virtual Memory change button

From my soak with 50 races and all minors, on an insane map, 16GB of VM should be fine, giving you approximate 24GB of memory (certain amounts of physical memory are reserved for caching the VM).  Further, I recommend to put 16GB for initial and maximum, to avoid dynamic allocation.  In my soak game, by turn 500, I was using about 16GB of memory, and each turn took about 5x the amount of time it did compared to the first few turns.  Its expected that turns will take longer, further into the game (all planets inhabited, thousands of ships to keep track of, etc)....I'm just worried for myself and others, that future content and/or improved AI will slow the game down even further.

Interesting about the CCleaner.  I wouldnt expect that to help at all.  The game reload/restart I'm sure is what may be helping you, as this game has serious memory leak issues.

Yeah, you need to meet more races to get the UP going.  I'm not sure if UP meetings get held before you meet/join/qualify.  If they coded it well, then it would happen.  However, me personally, I've always seen the first UP vote being to elect the chairperson (and of course, I ALWAYS lose that vote).

Dan, thank you for the explanation. I will admit, some of it is over my head...but I follow most of what you say. I will check what my VM is. I imagine you know that without my checking. 

I checked... it reads "Total paging size file for all drive: 9216 MB"

Is that what you expected?   I don't really know what it means.

well even though they recommend the virtual memory to be three times tam I will try your idea, and let windows do it for 1 1/2 memory.

its not me its brad who recommends only playing excessive, or insane only if you have 16-32 gigs of ram. If your system runs fine ignore.

one of the things they recommend is changing your paging file every so often

the paging file is hard drive space toact as memory. Virtual memory.

if system is fine keep doing. Thanks with cleaning tip. A little piece of advice change power options to high performance. Every co.puter I've. Seen including destops keeps this at balanced.

I had some trouble looking that one up, too.  Google was no help. Evidently, there's a command you can use called "soak" that makes the machine play the game automatically and without human input. I still don't know exactly what it stands for, but that's evidently what it does.  I also didn't pay attention to how exactly to use the command.  I must have seen something shiny while I was reading.

Well, Stardock has contacted me and asked me to opt-in. I guess they want to see if they fixed the issue. What do all of you recommend? I'm using a few of the MODS now, and I'd like to continue. Personality traits, Planet traits, All starbases mine, Reduced nebula, worthwhile resources,(I really like that one,) military starbases and longer AOE. Will most of them still work?