There's a button somewhere in the relations screen that allows one to leave the UP. Be warned that you lose the ability use trade routes when you do this. . . I think there's some other disadvantages, but I can't remember them right now.
The starbase's area of effect is irrelevant with mining bases. Even if the resource is on the opposite side of the galaxy, you will still receive the benefits of mining it. The effect is global, after all, affecting your entire empire.
It failed to initialize D3D, which indicates either a failed/corrupted driver installation or your DirectX installation is screwed up. Run dxdiag and run the D3D test within.
>> Baeowulfe: >> Driver Date: 10/10/2005 22:49:00 Update your video drivers.
Technically you shouldn't be able to put more than one construction or trade module on a ship. In the odd case that you manage it, there will be no difference. It just costs more. It certainly would be nice if multiple construction modules had a benefit, though. . .
You can declare war diplomatically. Just tell someone else who you're going to be attacking -- preferably someone who's not exactly on friendly terms with your target. It's a pretty useful way to buy alliances or just plain better relations.
That feature is one of the most asked for, but IMHO it's also the least likely to happen. I think it was mentioned that Stardock had at one time planned on doing a GalCiv RTS, though.
It might not help, but try setting your desktop colour depth to 32 bit or 24 bit (same thing, really).
Setting the desktop colour depth to 32 bit (or 24 bit) might also help.
Install the new drivers anyway. Ever since release, Stardock has repeatedly said that one should definitely update to the latest video drivers. Indeed, an extremely large percentage of the problems that people had with the game were solved simply by updating to the latest video drivers. If you're a bit paranoid or otherwise hesitant about the idea of updating drivers, have Windows make a System Restore point. That way if some problem aris
Can someone explain this a little bit, I'm a little clueless here It means that when you add an influence module to an influence starbase, its effect on your influence border will be immediate.
The campaign has a limited tech tree. Other parts of it will become available as you progress through the missions.
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The debug.err file is in your GalCiv2 directory.
I saw #2 alot in a recent game. The stack of death was just 5 parsecs from a planet I had recently captured and instead of trying to overwhelm me -- which probably would have been successful -- only one fleet at a time approached me.
Have you posted your debug.err somewhere or tried SmartException, yet?
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Not a bug, but a design decision that was made after the manual was printed. This is being changed in the recent beta patches.
Your video drivers are almost two years old. Update them. There's a new version that was released last month.
*shrugs* If anything it's an indirect cause.
The poster's comments were rife with ignorance. Intense compatibility testing -was- done prior to release -- but that's honestly never enough. Computers are far too varied in configuration to cover all bases. Add to that the practically infinite combinations of software installed on the system that might interfere with the game's stability and you have a no-win situation. The game upon release was quite stable, so long as one has a system that is relatively clean and has the latest
*Sigh* i've posted this thread a dozen times over... i get them too, but at random times during the game and sometimes with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message. I don't think that's a game error. IRQs are only accessed at the driver level.
A planet's population cap is based on its quality. The GalCiv2 wiki has all the details. To figure out the number yourself, take the cube of the quality plus one, and multiply the result by 0.02. For example, a Q5 planet. . . 0.02 * (5 + 1)^3 = 4.32 billion
Post the contents of the debug.err, which is found in your GalCiv2 directory.
Both. Video drivers are ancient and virtual memory should probably be a minimum of 1.5 GB.
I have seen more than 4 in a sector, but they belonged to different races. So I'm curious as to if it's really 4 starbases per sector belonging to 1 civ? Yes, it's four per civ, per sector.
1. Never post your serial number for any reason. 2. Never ask for a serial number.