In the next 10 minutes an update should arrive which may fix it. Please let me know what the behaviour is after that update (it's small, about 6MB)
if I were you I'd just take that as a sign that it's time to catch up with my time and updated to (at least) windows 7
Don't be mean, Mr X; XP is a good operating system, unlike most of what comes from Microsoft. I don't know what to do next though. What I need is a crashdump file, but I don't know where you would find it.
Could you try this? Right click Empires in steam > Properties > Set Launch options Add "-condebug" in there (without hyphens), then run the game. After it crashes, post the contents of SteamApps\common\Empires\debug.log in this thread.
Thanks for your answer Tama. I hope this output will be helpful : Code: [0217/182101:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/182101:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/182101:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/183501:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/183501:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/183501:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/185344:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1930)] Destroying invalid entry. [0217/185345:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/185345:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/185345:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/202917:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202917:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202917:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/202940:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1930)] Destroying invalid entry. [0217/202940:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202940:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202940:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/202952:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1930)] Destroying invalid entry. [0217/202953:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202953:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/202953:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie. [0217/210926:WARNING:backend_impl.cc(1930)] Destroying invalid entry. [0217/210927:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/210927:WARNING:x509_certificate_win.cc(117)] Unknown error -2146869244 mapped to net::ERR_FAILED [0217/210927:FATAL:x509_certificate_win.cc(1133)] Check failed: oid_info. : Opération réussie.