It's December 22, 2155 at this point and there's only been one probe encounter in Umgah space.

The StarCon universe just doesn't feel as dangerous as it should without those probes.

I'll try making a new game and linger around Sol to see if that helps any.

I've just started playing so I haven't gotten to the Slylandro gas giant yet.

Every time I played this game in the past, at least one probe would be upon me around 15-30 minutes after I've left Sol.

I've already finished looting the Centauri constellation and have traveled all the way to Spathi space without a single probe. It's been around a couple hours.

Has it ever took anyone else more than an hour or two to find one before they start multiplying?

I did a fresh reinstall of everything. It works fine now.

Except now I'm not encountering any hostile probes. There's absolutely zero of them anywhere.

Oh. There is no dosbox that opens up with UQM. It's just the one game window.

I'll try re-downloading the content.

Yep, have all the add-ons.

When you say dosbox, do you mean non-fullscreen mode or the dosbox emulation software? If it's the former, it says nothing. If it's the latter, I don't use that software.

Just vanilla UQM.

The lock up happens arbitrarily. It's not any one event that causes it. But I do have a savegame if you think it would help.

Well, it's not technically a lock up.

Whenever I play the game, I get to an arbitrary place and the entire thing jams up so badly that I can't even Alt+Ctrl+Del.

However, after waiting about three minutes for it to clear up, I got a blip of music/sound effects, so I get the idea that it's a very very very massive slowdown. But no matter how long I wait and no matter how many blips I let pass, I can't unfreeze the cursor or get out of the game. I have to reset the entire system.

I'm using WIndows 2000 Pro, ATI Radeon 9300 512 MB RAM