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Itried using the lowest graphics I could despite my computer being 32GB and the specs being above the minimum requirements. Looked online for crash fixes and tried things suggested like tried changing virtual memory and a few other steps I saw for other issues to no avail. Had task manager and MSI Afterburner running to check for memory issues, overheating, etc and saw no issues in the time before the crash.

Have had no issues running any other game on steam and cannot find anything exactly like my issue. Time range might not be exact but I am almost certain that I have never been able to keep it running for more than a half hour span at a time.

Update because I have been able to play it without crash. The issue usually happened when I was in the process of highlighting or clicking on uints. I changed the hp bar from unique to legacy and have yet to experience a crash.

I have the same issue and I am desperate. When I play 1vs1 ranked games, around 15-20 min my PC simply restarts. I have tried lowering the graphics and did not work. It has happened to me 5-6 times and it is very annoying.

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I recently posted an article about resurrecting old code, and went into some detail about how I brought a program for the TRS-80 I wrote in 1982 back to life. This post had some interesting discussion on Hacker News, and among these comments was one from a reader who mentioned that his oldest code was from 1978, and is still available on GitHub.

The author of this response was none other than Walter Bright, compiler expert and creator of the D programming language, as well the author of the very famous program that he had referred to in his Hacker News reply. That program was Empire, written in 1978 for the DECsystem-10 mainframe and is one of the earliest examples of a computer wargame. Empire contained then-groundbreaking features we still know and love today, including maps featuring cities, water and complex landmasses, fog-of-war mechanics, and a formidable computer AI that plays by the same rules you do.

I did pass that course, but no thanks to Walter. Forty years later, I was very surprised to have run across him in this way. I asked him if he would be willing to discuss the development of Empire with The Mad Ned Memo, a request to which he graciously agreed. I am delighted to share it with you now!

WB: A perennial problem I had with Empire is the computers of the time simply were not powerful enough. It ran slowly, and games where the computer played itself lasted several hours. (Today, a second or two!) This meant I became more and more focused on optimizing the code, and so became more and more interested in compilers and languages. I figured I could do better than the existing ones!

MNM: Which would bring us to talking about the D programming language, something I want to touch on in a bit. But you just answered a question I was going to ask, about whether the game was the consequence of some computer science project, or the other way around. Sounds like the game came first. What was the inspiration?

WB: I actually invented Empire when I was 11. I built a game board out of a large sheet of plywood, painted it, made game pieces, etc. But, it turned out to be far too tedious to play. (I knew nothing of the paper wargames that were popular later.) So it got shelved. When I finally was able to use a computer, I realized it could remove the tedium and leave the fun part. A computer also relieved one of the burden of finding a friend who was interested enough to spend hours playing the opponent. The computer would be the opponent.

WB: Computer games I played at the time were various Star Trek games, lunar lander games, ones out of the 101 BASIC Games book, etc. A particular favorite was Hamurabi. All were very simple. I've never heard of Tanktics.

WB: I was completely unaware of them, other than Risk and Stratego, both of which were influential for Empire. Another point of inspiration was in the movie The Battle of Britain (1968) there were scenes in the British dispatch and control center, which had a giant central map where people moved around counters representing airplanes and ships.

MNM: I would say you captured that control center feel with Empire, in a very immersive way. I was not kidding when I said I almost failed a Data Structures course in 1981 because I was playing Empire.

WB: I was careful to do it in such a way as nobody else could claim ownership of it. I.e. I used my own equipment and never did it in the office. I'd also get a signed statement from my employer(s) enumerating my side projects and acknowledging they had no interest in them, in advance. I *strongly* recommend doing this - it'll save one a lot of worry, grief, and money.

Nevertheless, I have worked on projects at a company that I wasn't supposed to be working on. They were rogue projects, in the company's best interests, and for the company. Some turned out to be pretty valuable for the company, so I have no regrets. I figured that since I was well paid, part of that pay was for my expertise in what would work for the company :-)

When I was at Boeing, the only computer was a PDP-11 in a separate air-conditioned room. I was not allowed to use it, because that was operated by a separate division of Boeing. (I was in the 757 Flight Controls group.) We were supposed to do calculations on paper with a calculator. I wasn't having that, and talked the sysop into giving me an account and the door access code. I wrote a number of Fortran numerical programs to do my work, and got good results from it, leading to me being assigned more and more of such work.

Eventually, my clandestine activities were discovered and the computer division demanded that I be reprimanded. This dispute went up several layers of management, until the uber manager of my division told the computer dept to lay off, that I was doing good work, and made my access official. In hindsight, I was at Boeing right on the cusp of the revolution away from paper towards computers.

(I was also supposed to write documents longhand, and hand them to the word processing pool to enter them. Ugh, I get writers' cramp signing a check. I cajoled the head of the WP pool to let me use one of the Wangs, and did the documents that way. I was apparently the only engineer to do so at the time. The WP pool was all women. My, how things have changed!)

WB: Stratego :-) and of course The Battle of Britain, where radar was used to detect incoming enemy aircraft. I also knew about the Battle of Midway, where knowing and guessing where the enemy fleet was meant life or death.

The fog of war is impossible with the board game version of Empire, but with computers I knew I could make it work.

WB: Mostly it was trying to prevent the computer strategy from getting stuck in local optimas, like one piece just going uselessly back and forth. Being a Fortran program, all memory was statically allocated and so I never had any pointer bugs in it.

MNM: So are you a good player of your own game? (In my limited game design experience, I find others quickly eclipse me.)

WB: Not really. I was always thinking of improvements rather than getting immersed in it.

WB: D is simply easier to use than C++. People find they can get their projects up and running much faster in D, with the same performance and control. It's not really one aspect of D that enables this, it's the combined effect of quite a few things.

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I also think that it was Mike Cohen who once visited me at home when I had the most terrible 16-year-old first ever hangover. Game always remain interesting game for the last two decays. It help you to make your mind more stronger and healthy. -us/education/how-to-play-scrabble/na

I encountered Empire while taking classes at the University of Hartford in 1981, where it was installed on their brand-new VAX 11/780 computer. It was the first time I ever played a computer wargame, and I was instantly hooked, spending valuable time on the system\u2019s VT100 terminals conquering cities rather than doing my data structures homework.

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