Problems with GalCivII: Endless Universe

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Hi,

I wonder if anybody else is having s imilar problem with this version of the game. Bought it a week ago, and there seems to be a bug that renders ohter race ships to become invisible, when in a fleet I click on it and it shows the number at the bottom (as per normal) but no ships show in the circular icon. further along in the game the list of ships that shows what is making up that fleet shows empty icons. Also, some ships seem to disappear completely, I have transports that I can't see (this is all other race ships and it makes no diff as to which race they are, I am playing with Humans), spore ships that are invisible and the only way I can find these is if I happen to click on teh grid they are in at the time by luck.

 

I have tried reinstalling the game and it makes no diff. I am unable to download the version unless I am mistaken. Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi,

I wonder if anybody else is having s imilar problem with this version of the game. Bought it a week ago, and there seems to be a bug that renders ohter race ships to become invisible, when in a fleet I click on it and it shows the number at the bottom (as per normal) but no ships show in the circular icon. further along in the game the list of ships that shows what is making up that fleet shows empty icons. Also, some ships seem to disappear completely, I have transports that I can't see (this is all other race ships and it makes no diff as to which race they are, I am playing with Humans), spore ships that are invisible and the only way I can find these is if I happen to click on teh grid they are in at the time by luck.

 

I have tried reinstalling the game and it makes no diff. I am unable to download the version unless I am mistaken. Any help would be appreciated.

 

 
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I've had this same problem with every version of GCII and have never seen anything in the forums addressing a fix.  Btw, if you try to watch a fleet battle with one of these "invisible" ships/fleets, the game crashes.  The only way around this is to not use autoplay for ship/fleet battles; when the battle screen appears, if you see no enemy ship(s), you can't watch the battle without it crashing the game (if you click to go immediately to the battle result it won't CTD).

This has led to my never finishing a complete game of any version of GCII due to the frustration of having a bug that (imho) ruins the game.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

So is this a known bug which has no resolution? if so shouldn;t there be a fix for them? because I am unable to play the game as it is since not seeing enemy ships and battle crashes means it is impossible to play it.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There was an invisible ship bug in TA a while back-definitely pre-1.96, maybe pre-1.95, which I believe was fixed.

If you're seeing this in all GCII versions, Scout_Pilot, my guess is you have either old drivers or a graphics option turned on that your video card can't handle.

Suggestions for both of you follow.

A few things to check:
-uncheck enable animated components (only exists in TA)
-uncheck use enhanced ship rendering (DA/TA)
-uncheck allow mixed vertex processing mode (DA/TA)
-uncheck any or all options beginning with Disable under Performance Options in Video

Doing the last thing on the list will make the game look worse, but doing so got it to run on my dad's system, which only has SiS integrated 740M graphics-which should be too ancient to run it.

Failing all of the above, start a new thread with your issue, Scout_Pilot, and each of you post your debug.err in your respective threads.  It is located in the following places, based on expansion (each expansion creates a separate debug.err).

\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2 or
\My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar or
\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor

I would assume Endless Universe has DA and TA partitioned the same way, but I don't know for certain.