research screen locked on top of diplomacy screen and gat het focus for either

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i have the animation of a research project locked on top of a diplomacy screen that the torians are asking for tribute and it has an accept or reject buttons, clinking on buttons has no effect. No Se but here is the last of the dbug file

Debug Message: Destroying ship Constructor 957. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Torian Confederation (4): Researching: Nano Mining
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: AI-X: Found no places to send my colony ship.
Debug Message: AI-X: Found no places to send my colony ship.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Brad's bug: Need to tighten up the typical colony code.
Debug Message: Lock: Surface is Restored.
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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
i had a lock-up on the 'choose technology' (research) screen after stealing technology (Terracomputers) from the Drengins. I could see the message re Terracomputers behind the choose technology pop-up.

My system itself was not locked - only GalCIV screens and Galciv itself was still 'active' in the background - the 'fuzzy monitor image effect' was still animated in the little advisor window. The mose remained active, but I couldnt close the choose tech window and having left it for 30 mins it had not closed itself. Windows task maanger said that the GalCiv app was 'running'with no errors reported. Smartex did not intercept an error
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
a mose is a mouse :p
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
task manager said it was ok. It ended the game, restarted and restored last game. It did the same thing with another function but was able to hit the diplomacy reject button (of course i'm going ro war now :sniff!: ) and was able to get back to the main screens
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I had the same problem. Hitting the Esc key allowed me to continue my game. I was unable to reach the research screen again until I saved and loaded my game.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
The same problem, I think it is something connected to researching two techs at once, or something similar. Maybe ship movement begind Tech screen...Generally, Esc gets out of this.

A bit similar problem, difficult to describe... Under some circumstances, Galciv things I have tech or diplomacy screen open (the small advisor at the bottom of screen say things like "Technology screen is used to..."), and I am on star map. I cannot move ships, and I have wrong minor icons (disband, sentry, guard) - they are replaced, not exactly, by small arrows.

I hope you will make the sense out of what I have written.

BTW, crashes to desktop:
1/ I ran with terror star (they ar EXPENSIVE, BTW) into star system.
2/ Minor races - I discovered minor race, which has not been included into diplomacy minor races list (why?). When I negotiated with them, and wanted to open details, CTD