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Reply to Game Still does not start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

>> Current Display Mode: 1024 x 768 (16 bit) (60Hz) GC2 requires 32bit colour depth. It wouldn't be a bad idea to increase your page file size to 2GB or more.

Reply to i can't download the latest patch in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Start game, click "update game" opens Stardock Central which allows you to update the game. Uncheck the "show pre-release versions" box if you only want the latest (1.0X) official patch. 1.1 Beta 4 works fine for me though

Reply to Can anyone Help??? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

(Not an expert) - Only thing I can think of is graphics card overheating. Have you tried enabling the "Throttle frame rate" option?

Reply to Shipyard where art thou? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

options/interface uncheck the "Remove functional ship components when upgrading a ship design" option (under "Ship Design"). Edit - that's in 1.1 Beta 4 Son of Edit, possibly in earlier versions too.

Reply to Game does not start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Also make sure you are running at 32bit colour.

Reply to Great Game in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Have you read the beginners guide ? Link Buy a factory or two on your homeworld and a colony ship or two (custom colony ships are even better). Pick up a few tips from reading these forums ... but working out your own strategy is a blast ... and welcome to the world of GalCiv2, where I currently live approximately eight hours a day (the wife is not happy!)

Reply to Abandon starbase or colony? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I never abandon anything, what is the point? If the Drengin are kicking your butt and you know you're going to lose there is a certain amount of satisfaction in destroying all your colonies before they defeat you.

Reply to everybody, everybody in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

So forgive me for being a noob but how do I get it do display my medals and such when I post? Click the almost invisible Default button for your character. It's in "edit my characters" just below the "clear scores" button.

Reply to everybody, everybody in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

Congrats Heretic! You know what happens now? You start cranking up the difficulty and losing hours, days or weeks of your life to GC2. Enjoy.

Reply to mind control centre in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think their approval rating is also a factor - if they have a high approval rating the chances of flipping to your side are much slimmer.

Reply to Help reqd playing a saved game on a different PC in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ignore this - whatever I'd screwed up it all got sorted out in the end ... no problems at all moving the save back from laptop to desktop. And a technological victory to boot. Suck on that, Yor scum! (I'm a bit hyper after that victory, so forgive me if I go a bit overboard) Best. Game. Ever.

Reply to Worst Retail Game Ever! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Dear Keith, My dad's bigger than your dad. BHG

Reply to Help reqd playing a saved game on a different PC in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Every crash is saved onto your root directory (generally C) ??? C is my O/S partition, GalCiv2 is in Games folder on my E partition. The debug.err will still be there, go

Help reqd playing a saved game on a different PC in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I hit a problem moving a saved Metaverse game from my desktop PC to my laptop - none of my custom ships were availabe. I found what appeared to be the relevant files in My Games\GalCiv2\ships and My Games\GalCiv2\Metaverse\ships and copied those over as well. All seemed fine until I set my governor to change all planets building Defender to build a custom ship - horrendous crash. Ok, so I've screwed up somewhere ... any advice on

Reply to I really want to like this game, but... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

this game is unusually buggy I take it you never played (for example) Championship Manager 4 or Black & White? OK, I had many crashes with 1.0X ... until I read the forums and realised my display drivers were way out of date (2004). I've had several crashes on 1.1 Beta 1 and 2, b

Reply to Abend when trying to buy Heavy Fighter from Arcean Empire (1.10[b3].015) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

"abend"=abnormal end. Old IBM mainframe speak. Methinks he plays on the wrong platform!

Reply to Not happy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My entire circle of friends would most likely have bought a copy each No sales lost there then.

Reply to stupid crap in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

daver33 - which difficulty levels do you play in civ4? Muppet?

Reply to Game runs slow please help in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Update your display drivers. Normally the cause of your probs!

Reply to Story: backed into a corner with no where to go in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Too many words.

Reply to the game fail to start in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

And update your display driver.

Reply to No Menu Titles Visible in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I had this after loading 1,1 Beta 2, rebooted the pc and everything was fine.

Reply to Collectors edition? I preordered mine online wayy back in the middle of beta 1 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You need to activate the collectors edition stuff - see collectors edition downloads in the Downloads section.

Reply to The Short Life of One Marine in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

LOL "What a guy!" Edit - jpf190279 beat me to it.

Reply to Huge/Gigantic Galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No probs playing gigantic on my XP2100 with 1GB ram. Slow as can be on my P4 2.66gig laptop with 512MB ram (though onboard graphics probably don't help). Upgrade ram to 1GB if necessary. Increase paging filesize to 2GB... Make sure no nasties are running in the background ... I had GC2 slow to a halt once - discovered Diskeeper was doing a defrag AND Norton AV was virus scanning at the same time as I was playing GC2! <img src="ht