Thanks for the response. I am running 1.01 Build 2818. I did as suggested above, using the updater from the start menu but it just sits there saying initializing, then there is a little blip that is too fast to read and then the close button appears. If I try to use the updater from the game screen, I get a message stating that there is no internet connection. I have all of my security turned off. i have made it to turn 56 because of the autosave feature but it is crashing about ever other turn. I will try it on another machine to verify that it is not my laptop.