Well, so far the infamous bug has not repeated, so all is well. Also, I feel much safer with the backup of the save in reach. Thank you, everybody, for the input and the help. Great game and I hope to see more of it.

No usb, just using my laptop. It's a new Alienware, very strong, but I do have a nasty habit of having a whole bunch (15-25) of firefox tabs open at the same time, some with movies buffering. This may, at this point sound a bit understated, but could that be the problem? The constant changes to RAM ...

Can you at least tell me what to try and avoid so this doesn't happen to another save?

here is the save file link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24268231/Yaron.sav

If this were 1.05, I would understand, but this is 1.01, no mods. I went to the tracker, but it is terribly uninviting and complicated. I tried to upload the save but it is too big, is there any other way I can get it to you? About the new installation, that was the first thing I tried, to no avail.

Ok, I'm getting scared now because it just almost happened again. I started another game and it crashed again while gating, only this time the save wasn't corrupted. I attached the printscreens from the crash. The part relevant for this crash is in bold, on 3/24. 03/23/2011 06:35:27 ----------------...

I started playing this game a few days ago and I am loving it! Imagine my frustration when all of a sudden it flipped out as I was gating, crashed, and apparently corrupted a very good game I was having. I have no mods and this is on v1.01. I think all I need to attach is the debug, if there is a ne...