General Protection Fault. Game crash for Outpost 1.5.

[Wealcwazy]

Does anyone know how to avoid the dreaded General Protection Fault game crash? 

This happens to me both when loading a Large saved game or randomly when I get very far with large multiple colonies. 

Even though I have successfully saved my games, I can't load them so they're useless.  It's Very frustrating, but it doesn't happen when loading medium and small sized saved games. 

Is there a certain internal threshold?  This happens both on the Emulator from this site as well as when I run from the original disk in Windows XP. 

Gives Error message 0007:889B or 0007:88B7

Screenshots provided

[leeor_net]

Sounds like Shitty Programming^TM rearing its head again. It's hard to not get too technical about it, but basically it's a pointer bug -- the game code is trying access memory that it isn't allowed to. It's almost always caused by a defect in the application itself, on occasion it's caused by a misbehaving driver.

I know of no work arounds for this, not sure anybody else has any advice. I really wish I could be more helpful. 

[White Claw]

I remember getting this too, but unfortunately don't know what the trigger was or any workarounds.

Did you manage to terraform the planet in those particular games? I remember that process being a bit glitchy at times.

[Wealcwazy]

I remember getting this too, but unfortunately don't know what the trigger was or any workarounds.

Did you manage to terraform the planet in those particular games? I remember that process being a bit glitchy at times.

Yes the games are terraformed and when I’m very far and advanced.  It’s not about just winning the game though.  I just wanna be able to keep building the colonies bigger.