I'm running into an intermittent and extremely difficult to narrow down problem...
Occasionally, the members of my crew will simply stop talking (ie, no more chatter about the status of enemy hull integrity or my own shield strength). When this occurs, they can no longer be spoken to and do not even turn around to address the character.
Generally, this does not directly hinder the tactical view since combat continues like normal, but if you attempt to interact with the crew more than a few times, the game will crash.
The most frustrating thing about this issue is that I cannot detect a pattern for what causes it. Sometimes it happens time after time, and sometimes with the identical selection of ships in a quick battle, it won't happen at all.
The ONLY thing that I notice as a possible pattern is that it usually only happens when there are a variety of different ships in combat at once. Half a dozen ships or so normally doesn't lead to it being an issue, but too many more than that and it tends to be more common to occur.
Because of this, I'm wondering if it's a RAM related issue. My computer has 20gigs of RAM and I even have the 4gb patch installed on the BC.exe, so there's nothing more I can do there.
Could I simply be running into a game engine limitation? Is RAM not the problem at all and there's something else causing this? Is there some way for me to determine what is happening when the crew gives me the silent treatment?
Any help would be appreciated.