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Thank you very much for the update! =)

I'm very sure it's a Steam problem, at least for Geneforge, and I'd be floored if it wasn't the same problem across the board for all the titles that stoped working. I had updated my 3d drivers (There was a catalyst update same day as the steam client update) ~ 5 hours before Geneforge stoped working, it worked just fine following that, on both the front and back side of a restart. I played for a while, and got up from the machine to talk with my girlfriend for a bit, steam prompted me for the restart to install the steam update, which I did, I came back, and *poof* my game no longer worked. The fact that Steam support is trying to pawn off the blame.... =(

Yeah. I'm in the same boat. ~10 hours into Geneforge, it's been sitting around sense the holiday sale (and man, I don't know why I waited to long to start playing it. I haven't been this into a game in a very long time), and I just started in on it a few days ago. I supose I'll wait for steam to fix it, but this is yet another step in my slow dispersion of business from them to the other download vendors. On the up side, looking to this site for tech help, I discovered that Spiderweb Games sells their products directly, and is also having a sale on Avernum 4-6 (which I would be a fool not to buy with all the fun I've been having already with Geneforge!), which I had been planing on buying though steam until this happened. Now I can get a great price on them, and make sure the best part of it goes to the people who I would like to see get it the most, the game developers! =)

I posted a comment on another thread in this forum, before seeing this one, I'm having the same issue with the steam versions of geneforge 1 -4. While I assume its the case, could someone confirm if the Geneforge saves are as easily portable between the demo and the full games as the Avernum saves seem to be?

Appologies if this is too much it's own topic for this thread, I posted in reply to this as I think mentioning the problem I am having might be of some value in perhaps illumiating a lager steam issue?- I actually came here to check out the forum topics here for a simular issue, with Geneforge 1 - 4, on Steam. They used to work fine, but now they all crash with the generic "Windows has encountered a blah blah blah..." message. For me, the problem started to occur following the latest steam update last night. I'm running Windows 7 x64. I can get a full spec printout tonight when I am at home, if that helps. I've got a help ticket in at steam... but I'm not expecting a lot of help from them based on my previous experiences. Also, anyone that knows better then I how the forums here run think this should be a seperate post, I will move or will be happy if you move it for me!