[W|0.5.496 rev19731] Game freezes in trade ship window

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Played yesterday evening for about 3 hrs. All the sudden, the game freezes when I try to contact a trade ship. Specifically, the trade window pops up but I can't interact with the buttons, change tabs (Food/Slaves/Weapons) or close the window, although sounds do still play when I mouseover the buttons. I have to alt-tab and force quit to exit the game.

This was not the first trade ship I had contacted in this game, so I'm not sure why it's freezing at this point.

Video drivers are up to date. I had zero issues with Alpha 4, worked great.


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Messed around a bit more and managed to fix it. Not sure if I was just being a mega-derp or what, but when I contacted a different trade ship I now got the "you need an orbital beacon next to a storage area" error message. When I closed that window and contacted the ships again, everything now works.

To be clear, I did have several trade beacons and stockpiles set up and they were working perfectly prior to this.