I have a problem-PLEASE HELP JUST ONE QUESTION

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Hi ewerybody!

Im playing the game just a few days now ,but there is a strage thing I noticed:
so it appears that my ships doesn't have any "skin" I mean they are just colored by 2 "paint-like " colors and thats it (whyfor is then the 32 color depth) It looks wery ugly + I cant build unike ships a watched the tutorial made the steps but I cant place any extra peaces on any hull...
I dont know if thats because of my graphic card ,I installed the latest driver from the net and no progress
(Geeforce FX 5200 128 + 512 ram in the machine)
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i have the same problem and the same graphic card
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Could either (or both) of you post your debug.err files (from the GC2 dir) here? One thing I can recommend is to set your language settings (in control panel) to English-US if it's not there already. This has for some odd reason been known to produce some very unusual graphic anomalies otherwise.

-Mike
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmm
Mostli I swich betvin 4 languages but usualy my windows is set to english ,but a friend of me has a usual pc with the same graphic card and the game runs perfectly at him....
I already have the game uninstalled,but I reinstal it so I can give U the report,maybe it can help in the future
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
OK I see now...
The game does not recognize if I turn the language to english (my windows is hungarian version) so the ships look bad...this is the errorreport:

Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********

System Info
Time: 3/12/2006, 00:55:34
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Languages: Hungarian (Regional Setting: Hungarian)
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+, ~1.9GHz
Physical Memory: 512MB RAM

Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce FX 5200
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0322&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug and Play monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.8198
Driver Date: 12/10/2005 03:06:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

. . .
HAL (sw vp): NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 85
Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
. . .
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Peti.SG1-TARCSAZO\Dokumentumok\My Games\GalCiv2\*.StarSystems
*DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for PirateShip. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for Starbase. ***
. . .
Debug Message: CustomRaceWnd: Cannot find OBJID CustomRace_Description_Text
Debug Message: CustomRaceWnd: Cannot find OBJID CustomRace_Tab_Homeworld
. . .
Debug Message: GameUninitialize end
Debug Message: Device not cleared. 1 counts left.
Debug Message: D3D not cleared. 1 counts left.
Debug Message: Destroying Window.
Debug Message: Main Shell terminating normally

Maybe there is many useless stuff ,i hope I could help
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
OK FINALY I MANAGED IT !
THX for the tip it helped ,all building funktions available + the ship skins (now I see the planets to )

the new errorreport:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Languages: Hungarian (Regional Setting: English)

thx Bye