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Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I played some games with your mod and with it TotA was a lot of fun. While evil races seem to be a bit underpowered in the long run, all races tried their best in building up and expanding, so the A.I. players were a real competition on tough with maximum cpu usage. Thanks a lot MarvinKosh, great job and I wish Stardock would sign your mod for Metaverse submissions. One minor things I would love to see improved, it seems A.I. players never research the Alliances tech. As I alw

Reply to Is there a concensus on settings that fix TA's eccentricities? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I must admit I was a bit pigheaded. Because DA metaverse login is broken for me at the moment (I hope support can sort it out, tried all the known workarounds afaik) I gave MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod a try. With that TotA was a lot of fun and I had some great games. The A.I. did well, even the evil players had their share before Terrans, Altarians or Torians began to dom

Reply to Happy Holidays! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks and Happy Holidays! I hope that key didn't activate just once, because I already owned GalCiv2 Dread Lords, GalCiv2 Endless Universe (DA + TotA) as well as GalCiv2 Ultimate, but none of them on Steam so far. Nevertheless it came handy now, because GalCiv2 Ultimate from shop.stardock.com gives me some headaches at the moment and I hope DA-Metaverse works with the Steam version. [e digicons

Reply to GalCiv II Ultimate - Holi-Daily-Deal at December 22nd and store.stardock.com in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks Sole Soul, good to know 2.01 is the final DA patch! However I tried reinstalling after cleaning up Endless Universe leftovers and then I also tried deleting sig.bin which allowed me to enter my account information and serial again. After that I did it once again folowing the procedure Nakor (Stardock) suggested to fix TotA-Metaverse problems (that I don't have, mine worked right from the beginning). More/better fix to make

Reply to GalCiv II Ultimate - Holi-Daily-Deal at December 22nd and store.stardock.com in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Did I say "nice, slick and user friendly"? [e digicons]:P[/e] Unfortunaltely I cannot start a Metaverse game with Dark Avatar: "Your serial number is not registered. You must register your serial number to play the metaverse." ( Screenshot ) TotA works fine and automagically connects to my Metaverse account. How am I supposed to register DA? Btw, Dark Avatar

Reply to GalCiv II Ultimate - Holi-Daily-Deal at December 22nd and store.stardock.com in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Just gave it a try and it works. I was allowed to download GalCivII Ultimate from within my account at store.stardock.com at fullspeed and after installing I had just to Copy&Paste my new serial number into an registration form. Nice, slick and user friendly. Unfortunately there is no menu within the game launcher to select which chapter one wants to play (Endless Universe had that feature), the launcher just starts TotA by default. Manually executing GC2DarkAvatar.exe from C:\Pro

Reply to Is there a concensus on settings that fix TA's eccentricities? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well qrtxian and MarvinKosh , you both are true heroes of TotA community mod fixes to me. You spent a lot of time in analyzing the flaws and worked around them as far as things could be fixed without source code access, probably setting TotA in a mostly playab

Reply to Is there a concensus on settings that fix TA's eccentricities? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

TotA comletely took the GalCiv fun away from me. Problem was I did not play Dark Avatar when it was released but instead got an extensions pack. Needless to say I wanted to play Twilight then, as it promised to be the best GalCivII experience with all those amazing features and several A.I. personalities. TotA unfortunately turned out to be unfinished in my opinion. The new features somehow just felt like randomly added checklist features lacking a fair amount of balancing and we all

GalCiv II Ultimate - Holi-Daily-Deal at December 22nd and store.stardock.com in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi! GalCiv II Ultimate will be on sale for just 13.35§ at December 22nd . I already own GalCivII Dread Lords as well as GalCivII Endless Universe (standalone expansion pack with DA and TotA) and both are registered at Impulse. Dread Lords shows up in my store.stardock.com account but is not downloadable from there (yet?), Endless Universe doesn't even show. Now that deal would offer me

Reply to Random Debug videos in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

I guess the bakery does not reduce monthly maintenance cost by 1 Gildar, so please change the tooltip description. +1 Maintenance -1 Gildar per turn ... I am back playing GalCiv2 right now (Dark Avatar, as long as Frogboy didn't find the time fixing the completely broken Twilight A.I. ) and it seem

Reply to GalCiv2 DA crash during loading - win7 in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I looked around and found an empty "Language" key right beside the ones your GC2langfix_64.reg created in my registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stardock\Drengin.net\GC2EU Manuall setting it to "English" did the trick for me and now I can play. Thanks kyro!

Reply to GalCiv2 DA crash during loading - win7 in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Tried the 64-bit registry file and also checked prefs.ini for desktop width/height. Still crashes as described in post #1. Clean english install of GC2 Endless Universe right now using Impulse: Debug Message: Version v2.02 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Dec 1 16:44:09 2008 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 12/12/2011, 21:41:33<br

Reply to Champions may not die, but they might wish they had in FE Sneak Peeks Elemental Forums

Loosing all of his army and some of his pride, Jagnir finally found solace in chanting with his dealy bought exceptional voice, famous and highly valued for other-worldly flexibility and high pitch now. Charisma +10 Stamina Trait: nightingale

Reply to Elemental - SuperSampling - AntiAliasing ( SGSSAA ) with Nvidia Inspector in War of Magic Elemental Forums

NVIDIA Inspector utilizes Nvidia's NVAPI which exposes driver functions to developers. It therefore works with any card that is supported by a corresponding Nvidia driver. http://developer.nvidia.com/nvapi To directly answer your question, NVIDIA Inspector will work with your GTX260 and a somewhat recent driver out of the 200 driver series. However SGSSAA performs best on the Fermi architecture (GTX480 and later), so you may want to try the AA-Bits with hybrid modes

Reply to Elemental - SuperSampling - AntiAliasing ( SGSSAA ) with Nvidia Inspector in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Maybe, but moving the camera I believe any flickering will also be obvious to you as human eyes are wary of motion and anomalies. Nature designed us that way. Just open those two screenshots in seperate browser tabs and switch between them while having a look on the shrub to the left of Relias for example. Transparent textures are there all over the place in Elemental and mo

Elemental - SuperSampling - AntiAliasing ( SGSSAA ) with Nvidia Inspector in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Stardock implemented an in-game anti-aliasing switch which works well. Once activated, polygon edges are smooth, which is a must have nowadays in my opinion. Unfortunately, transparent textures need more advanced filter techologies and Nvidia therefore provides three approaches at least. There are two Transparency-Antialiasing-Modes availiable within the driver control panel that are exlusively applied on alpha tests (TMSAA and TSSAA). Utilizing external tools like Nvid

Reply to Will Stardock get the 1.9 gig update bug fixed? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

You're welcome and good job! Just to correct my typo above, Impulse version is 3.28.618 build 1 9 83.

Reply to Will Stardock get the 1.9 gig update bug fixed? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

After following #120 and reporting back I restored elemental.xml and deleted the update size registry key again, so I was still on v1.1 and ready to try upcoming bugfix approaches. Today an Impulse update was availiable (3.28.618 build 1083) and after installing that it again showed a update size of 1,91gb, but I could hear it intensively verifying files on my harddisk. After that had finished, the correct update size of 8,64mb was reported. &nbsp

Reply to Will Stardock get the 1.9 gig update bug fixed? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="IamDean" reply="120" id="2864652"][...] - Post back with the size Impulse says for the update.[/quote] -> 8,64mb

Reply to Will Stardock get the 1.9 gig update bug fixed? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Win7-x64 German followed the instructions above Elemental v1.1 -> v1.1 still requires 1,91gb -- [10.01.2011 17:34:58] ---------------------------------------------------- Context: Problem loading ImpulseTV (0) Message: Please ensure Adobe Flash for Internet Explorer is up to date. Player path not found in registry Build #: 1978 -- [10.01.2011 17:35:04] --------

Reply to Lord Xia's Treatise on Elemental improvement, ver 1.1 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

GalCivII: Sir, we successfully improved our miniaturization tech, so our hull size increased. https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Miniaturization Elemental: My Lord, our people no longer live in huts but in houses now. That means, we can feed more of them with the same amount of food.

Reply to Will Stardock get the 1.9 gig update bug fixed? in WOM Support Elemental Forums

Updating Elemental v1.10 to v1.11 resulted in a download size of 1,91gb and it actually was that big, not just a display error. Then I canceled the

Reply to Natures Bounty in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Is it just me or doesn't the concept of houses (=more hungry inhabitants) consuming the same amount of food suck as well?

Reply to Lord Xia's Treatise on Elemental improvement, ver 1.1 in War of Magic Elemental Forums

Where can I sign this petition? [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] What I would also like to see is "Auto resolve" using the same system as tactical battles, just in the background. Then please get rid of caravan micromanagement. I would prefer to see them automagically rebuild after some cooldown time when destroyed, but something needs to be done here. Needless to say that cooldown time could be extremely long and some techs (or a souvereign trait) may reduce this no

Reply to Trade routes (caravan not sent) in War of Magic Elemental Forums

[quote who="Malsqueek" reply="4" id="2852496"]Frankly, I think its a little silly that destroyed caravans don't re-spawn themselves, [...][/quote] Rebuilding them is boring micromanagement at it's worst, so that should change. It should still hurt to lose caravans though, so maybe re-spawn should take ~10 seasons and monsters that had a juicy caravan for dinner could stay around that trade route knowingly fresh food is on the way. Edit: How about changing the bo