Creatures Caves

I have tried starting from scratch on C1 without using the borg or skirty cheat, and I have had some success getting all the way to the 4th generation so far. However, the game briefly crashed tonight giving a debug error message, I was able to continue the game after a restart though. I'm playing the game on a HP laptop with Windows 10 using the gog.com version. I was wondering if any of you could interpret what it means:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.Xml.XmlException: Invalid XML document. The document does not have a root element.
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Save(String filename)
at HPSSFUpdater.UpgradeUpdater.IsUpdateNeeded()
at HPSSFUpdater.View.MainWindow._bgWorker_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
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HPSSFUpdater
Assembly Version: 8.4.2.2
Win32 Version: 8.4.2.2
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Hewlett-Packard/HP%20Support%20Solutions/Modules/HPSSFUpdater.exe
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System.Core
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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WindowsBase
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/WindowsBase/v4.0_4.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/WindowsBase.dll
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HP.SSF.Config
Assembly Version: 3.3.2.0
Win32 Version: 3.3.2.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/WBjwi/AppData/Local/Temp/HPSSFUpdater/HP.SSF.Config1.dll
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HP.SupportFramework.Common
Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 8.5.32.37
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/HP.SupportFramework.Common/8.0.0.0__41bdec5abf54f6dc/HP.SupportFramework.Common.dll
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