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Program quits ungracefully with an exception: Unhandled exception at 0x0049418a in Democracy2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000000.
Version: 1.72
OS: Vista Ultimate
Both occurs in Elevated (Admin) mode and normal mode.
Severance: Not so much of a problem, but it lowers my Vista Reliability 
does this happen in windowed mode too? It shouldn’t be a vista thing (I develop on vista), likely a firewall or web browser related issue.
Just checked, and no it doesn’t.
it sounds a lot like the game is connecting to the web, and something on your pc is trying to warn you about this, and failing (and crashing) if the game has control of the screen. Could be some security software like norton internet security maybe?