I bought Village Sim today as soon as it came out; it has crashed my Zodiac 2 three times, now. I can play for a while, but then it crashes if I start a new game. Please help! I love the game, but am not happy about this!
Gatewood

Could you please provide a little more information about the crashes? It would really help a lot in figuring out what's going on. The game was beta tested on several Zodiacs and was pretty stable, so the more information you could provide, the better. I'm sure Arthur will work with you to help resolve the problem.

Hmmm. I have a zod and the demo works fine on mine... I'm not sure what else to say.

Hello. I have a Sone Clie TJ-27 and I have the same problem. I downloaded the trial version and when I attempt to create a new came (after already creating the first game and following the tutorial), I get a fatal exception error and I have to soft reset my PDA. If I continue my current game, it works just fine. But as soon as I click on the "menu" button in the lower right hand corner and select "New Game" I get the exception error. Is there a file that I can remove that will remove the curerntly saved game file?

I installed all 4 files including the music files (even though my PDA doesn't support the music). I am not sure if thie would matter.

Until I get a resolution, I won't register this game - and I really like the one game I can play!

-S

You might try deleting the file VillageSavegame.pdb and see if that helps. If it does, let us know that. If it doesn't, please provide more information on the crash to help figure out what's happening.

I don't think the music files are contributing to the problem. Out of curiosity, do you hear the sound effects on your Clie? There is a hack that one of the beta testers used to be able to hear the music on his Clie NX70V, but he didn't seem to be able to get both music and sound effects.

I uninstalled and reinstalled, and so far am going OK on the Zodiac, but it seems that it happened every time after starting a new game and accessing the menu. It happened a bunch more times last night, so I just deleted the whole thing and reinstalled it. Something obviously got corrupted.
Gatewood

I had the same problem on my tungsten E. I got around it by first starting a new game, then exiting out to the main palm menu and re-entering the game. Since then it has behaved fine. Perhaps some files get overwritten when you exit or re-enter. Hope that helps, now if I could just keep my poor little villages from starving to death.

I had the same problem with my Treo 600. I tried to start a new game. It would let me play a little, then it would automaticly re-boot. I fixed the problem by letting the villagers die due to lack of food. Then when I started a new game, all is fine.

I'm hearing more than a few reports of this, and it is something we saw a little in beta. Our in-office test devices don't do this, which makes it a little trickier to debug.

I'm starting to get the idea that there is an error in the data initialization when a new game is started.

I'm going to have a look at this and see why starting a new game might crash/lockup.

Has anyone found a reliable way to get around this? Reinstall working? Starting a new game, then entering menu, then back into game?

Gatewood has the reinstall helped? How is stability now?

I'm the Annum. above. I did not try to re-install. Like I said, what "fixed" the prob for me was having all the villagers die overnite. When I started it in the am, and selected new game, all has gone well so far. (8 realtime hours played).