game will not start

November 22, 2006 8:52 PM from

recently had to do a destructive restart on my compaq, still notsure why. reinstalled galciv2 and it worked on version 1.0. downloaded 1.4 and now i get this message when i try to launch the game.

The product appears to be validated but the serial number or the machine SID don't match.

note- 1.4 worked on my computer before the destructive restart.
please help

thanks in advance

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Reply #1 November 22, 2006 9:53 PM from

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You should simply need to go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 and delete/rename the file sig.bin. Then run the game and provide your email/serial to reactivate.

Reply #2 November 22, 2006 9:59 PM from

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thanks, that did the job

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