I have a hard enough time finding a multiplayer match that isn't unbalanced (one side up a player or two) that it would be nice to play the single player just to play the game at all, but wait....  The AI on your side is soooo bad in single player that hard mode is ridiculously difficult because your  AI teamates keep feeding the computer DG kills.  Biggest issues are: a weakened AI teamate pursuing a DG through a line of towers and getting taken out, your AI rarely focus fires, and the criteria for your AI to run away is set way way too low.  The worst part is the computer team plays intelligently and effectively but AI absolutely blows and in an even game (hard mode) its really really problematic when the comp farms your AI teamates whether you support them or not.

Hello, stardock team support, belive it or not, now im having the same problem when updating demigod, the same error takes place when impulse launches itself for updating, and.. again i can't play Demigod, maybe you guys could make a manual install version for the update like you did with demigod on http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com, because that worked out fine, without having to run impulse, i await for further instruction. Thank you very much, or not, because a part from this issue, demigod's multiplayer system is very bad, the game crashes so often, if it fails to connect to one of the players in the game.. the game crashes, and even if you start the game, 1 or 2 guys drop out while the game is loading, and there are lots of other problems too, your game is like.. 40% playable, and that's no joke, tried to play the Pantheon and the game started out only with AIs. How come i can play dota over b.net on usEast hosts with ping 75 in 5 vs 5 games, and here i can't even play out, or hardly i play out a 3vs3 game with european guys ? Maybe you know the answer alone, and there is verry little chanse that me and my friends will buy another game from you..

P.S: please don't ask me again for the dxdiag, startup and impulse error.log files because i've sent them to you like 3 times before

So now that I have the latest patch in place, I can no longer play Demigod.  I was playing both online and offline just fine.  However, here is good news!  I actually have information on the Unhandled Exception.  So here is the short version.

I lauched the Demigod game.

Skipped through the opening videos.

Selected to play a single player game.

Had myself set as Torch Bearer.

Selected to add an Easy AI.

Easy AI came up as Lord Erebus, meh, ok.

The map was set for Prison.

I went into game options.

Started looking over the options of how I would like this game to play out.

Crash.

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x00ad547b
    attempted to write memory at 0x2ada3000

Program : C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe
Cmd line arguments :

Callstack:
 Unknown symbol (address 0x00ad547b)

Last 100 lines of log...

A full record of the log is stored in the Demigodlog.txt file

warning: Error opening movie
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/options/options.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/maui/slider.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/options/module_keybinds.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/keymap/userbindablecommands.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/keymap/properkeynames.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/profile/profile.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/replays/replays.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/spstandings/spstandings.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/spsub/spsub.lua\000'
info: *DEBUG: OnHide: \000false
info: *DEBUG: OnHide: \000true
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/sptournamentcomplete/sptournamentcomplete.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/sptournamentcontinue/sptournamentcontinue.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/sptournamentnew/sptournamentnew.lua\000'
warning: Error opening movie
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/menus/sptournamentsub/sptournamentsub.lua\000'
info: *DEBUG: OnHide: \000false
info: *DEBUG: OnHide: \000true
info: MUSIC : Activating cue [Main_Menu]
info: MUSIC : Activating cue [Main_Menu]
info: *DEBUG: OnHide: \000false
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/lobby.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/lobbybase.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/mods.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/dialogs/modmanager.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/gamecolors.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/lobbyoptions.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/dialogs/dialog_connecting.lua\000'
info: Creating connector on port 6073
info: LOBBY: Game port 6073[UDP] opened.
info: LOBBY: Listening for discovery requests on port 15000
info: LOBBY: assigning ourselves the uid of 0
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/controls/mappreview.lua\000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'UI_Not_Frontend' to value '1.000000'
info: MUSIC : Activating cue [Lobby]
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/waitanim.lua\000'
info: Starting background task "Map loader /maps/map13/map13.scmap"
info: Background task "Map loader /maps/map13/map13.scmap" running.
info: Active game mods for blueprint loading: \000{ }
info: Loading blueprints...
info: Registering blueprints...
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/singleplayerlaunch.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/ainames.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/factions.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/angel/angel_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/archer/archer_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/archer/archer_movie_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/bird/bird_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/ent/ent_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/flag/flag_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/giant/giant_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/giant/giant_r_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/highpriest/highpriest02_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/highpriest/highpriest03_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/highpriest/highpriest04_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/highpriest/highpriest_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/king/king_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/leopard_rider/leopard_rider_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/mage/mage_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/mage/magefire_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaur/minotaur_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaur/minotaur_movie1_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaur/minotaur_movie2_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaurcaptain/minotaurcaptain02_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaurcaptain/minotaurcaptain03_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaurcaptain/minotaurcaptain04_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/minotaurcaptain/minotaurcaptain_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/oak/oak_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/priest/priest_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/priest/priest_movie_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/queen/queen_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/queen/queen_open_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/queen/queen_open_movie_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/rook/rook_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/serpent/serpent_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/siegearcher/siegearcher02_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/siegearcher/siegearcher03_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/siegearcher/siegearcher04_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/siegearcher/siegearcher_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/sniper/sniper_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/sniper/sniperfury_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/spirit/spirit_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/trebuchet/hrooktreb_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/trebuchet/trebuchet_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/unclean_beast/unclean_beast_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/unclean_beast/unclean_beast_movie_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/vampire/vampire_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/vampire_lord/vampire_lord_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/waridol/waridol_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/whiptail/whiptail_character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/characters/yeti/yeti_character.lua\000'
info: Preloading resources.
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/common/preload.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/heroselect.lua\000'
warning: Error opening movie
info: Can't add chat text # no chat display
info: text="AI: Gygha (Easy) has chosen Lord Erebus."
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/ui/lobby/gameoptions.lua\000'
info: Caching asset c:\program files\stardock games\demigod\bindata\characters\rook\rook_mesh.gr2: 7b03dedcc03d42554a7b51a5605289c7.gr2

Ideas?

FYI

After the last patch I started getting some random crashes after 10-15 minutes into any game. Prior to the last patch, I never crashed once. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled by downloading from Star Dock. Now it works perfectly again. Those with crashing problems might want to try uninstalling/reinstalling again.

Favor points don't save, at all.  I've been stuck with swift anklet for a while.

can u place this game with controller  instead of keyboard?

Is it just me or does the game update every single day?

I have always had a soft spot for starock, ever since GalCIv 1..

However, I have to say the execution of multiplayer is very bad. To release a game in this state, is really a kick in the teeth for those of us who champion you guys.

For every game I get into and enjoy, the other 10 games consist of lag, desync's, more lag, and more connectivity related problems.

And also your updates seem to mute sound in the OS.. sort that out too.

It's difficult trying to play a finesse game as Regulus, when due to lag you die alot needllessly.

God do you know how it feels to have to quit a game due to lag.. and end up looking like an idiot!!

Ill be returning in a in near future, when hopefully you guys have sorted the networking out.. as it stands in it;s current state I'm staying clear.

I would ask for my money back, but I can't be arsed, put it to good use, and fix it..

Good luck

I have this same problem too, how do you fix it?

Serial keys only contain 0-9 and A-F, so there is only one potential choice for any character or digit.

If you have a Logitech webcam, close the system tray app and/or end the LVPrcInj process in task manager. If you have Comodo Firewall, disable Defense+ while playing or add it as an exception.

Ask for a refund dude.