GalCiv 2:ultimate Ed crash on start up

Useing windows 7

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I just purchased Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition on Impulse and when I launch the game it opens the launcher with play game, manual, editors, ect. When I hit play game the screen flashes black a few times and windows pops up saying "Galactic Civilizations 2: twilight or the Arnor has stopped working." Ive tried pressing update but nothing happens and I cant find a patch anywhere on your site. I also tried reinstalling and still doesn't work, plus the debug.err is not there. I looked for it manually and I also searched through windows.

 

as I said earlyer im using 64bit windows 7, I have 8GB of ram, a 9800GT GFX card, and a 6 core AMD processor.

 

any help would be great, thanks.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If it's getting far enough to try initializing the video, then there will be a debug.err file in My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor.

Barring that, generally this sort of issue can be solved by matching the game to your desktop resolution and/or using windowed mode, which you can set manually in the prefs.ini file (same location as above)--

Change
DisplayWidth=1024
DisplayHeight=768
ColorDepth=32
Fullscreen=1

To
DisplayWidth=(Your desktop width)
DisplayHeight=(Your desktop height)
ColorDepth=32
Fullscreen=0

 

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