Game Launches, but cannot play

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This is a major, major disappointment to me - ever since the beta 6.1 opt-in I have been on and off able, and then unable to play the game itself once launched and I cannot pin down the reason as to why.
 

Basically, I launch the game - it loads, I pick the campaign at any difficulty level and i ejects me from the game and back to windows - I choose to start my own custom game as any race, under any settings - and it ejects me from the game and back to windows after "Loading map" with no results. I'm not a founder but I've been playing Gal Civ ever since 2 released during my teen years so the moment I knew 3 was being developed I was obviously jumping for joy, I've been a beta tester for the last 6 months and an active poster for the last month or so. 

This isn't the first time I've made this issue known.

I have no idea what can even help in this situation - I'll post my machine specs and install paths and any other information that will help but right now the game is unplayable for me.

Specs -

 

Windows 7 Ultimatel Edition (64 bit, obviously)

Intel Core I5 3330 @ 3.2 Ghz (Quad core, stable overclock)

8 Gb DDR3 Memory (14900 clock speed)

2Gb Nvidia GT-640 with GPU overclock at 1048 Mhz and Memory Overlock of 1982 Mhz

Primary OS SDD -Kingston Sata 120GB

Secondary HDD - 1TB Seagate HDD (Gal Civ 3 and steam are both installed in this drive)

Tertiary HDD - 500 GB Toshiba HDD



All 3 drives have a 2gb Paging file in case anything goes a little overboard - but I am seeing nothing spec wise that would stop the game from running - yet the moment I start a game it drops out without any indication as to why.

 

I'll post video evidence once my youngest is asleep.

Any help would really, really be appreciated. 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

If you haven't already, read this post, and if there's nothing there that solves the problem, open a support ticket as described at the end of that post.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I annoyingly managed to solve my own problem, I had to delete the entirity of the Gal Civ 3 file folders under my documents to do so - but the game now works. Lord only knows what the problem was, but I am now knee deep in the campaign.

 

Thankyou for offering help Publius, it didn't really amount to much, but at least it got a support ticket lodged and someone out there was paying attention - my thanks old chappe.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You're welcome, glad you got it working.