Altarian Prophecy beta Available to Drengin.net users

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You have to have updated and restarted Stardock Central since yesterday to see the beta.  Check Show Pre-Release Applications and select Check for Application Updates if you aren't seeing it. 

Altarian Prophecy will show up as a separate module under Games, and installs into its own directory, but you must have Gal Civ installed (preferably 1.13 but 1.12 might work too).  It works much like the mods directory.

Please note that the save games are not cross-compatible between the expansion pack and 1.13 or earlier versions of Gal Civ.  They no longer create folders; everything is saved in one file.  Altarian Prophecy has its own Data\SaveGames folder.

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
thanks cari! :D

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Downloading...
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

It's actually bigger than the final version will be, because we still have to make the new opening screen.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
WAAAHHHH!!! Stuck at work... (:( (:( (:(
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
everytime I click install I get an error and windows says it needs to shutdown Stardock Central

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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
No problems installing here.

41% completed. 15.83 of 37.73 MB completed. *Sigh*
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Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
dont click minor races buton as this causes CTD so does the Council screen when you change type of gov. cari is this supposed to be full playable beta version or just 'sneak peak'?
~SDC~

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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
love the new minor race graphics. i thought id read that there were going to be 7 major races in altarian prophecy i can only see 5. is the completed version going to have all 7? love the random setting for universe creation adds a bit of tension to game :) can you list the major new updates to the actual game as cant seem to see that many so far. (other than map editor etc) thanks great looking add-on

LM

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Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Great! Now I have to update to a version past 1.11.

No more of those cheesy masos for me...
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
dont click minor races buton as this causes CTD so does the Council screen when you change type of gov. cari is this supposed to be full playable beta version or just 'sneak peak'?
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Not true. It crashes when there are no minors left. If there are still minors, DO click on the button. You'll know at last what Carinoids and Alexians look like. Now that may be the art for the new races, but they are good looking.

One weird thing: Why were all the ai's set to pure good fools by default? Fools OK, but Pure Good?

I LOVE the random options for map size and habitable planets.

What do the options mean in GoodVsEvil and I-can't-remember-what-it-was-but-it-was-by-default? Both disable alliance victory. Do you plan to provide some hint on what those options mean like a right click help, text description or something?

I can't say I like the loader. It's got all the options, but it looks like someone threw shuffled cards on my desktop, and clicking somewhere on the cards will do something. I'd rather have a more conventional menu than these small cards.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
Strange... I fire Stardock, click to see "pre-release" applications, run check for updates, the whole shebang... and yet I cannot see the Altarian beta.

Has it been removed or am I having an issue? (:(
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
It's a new line under the Galciv 1.13 one in the games tab.

~SDC~
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
Well... I appreciate the help, but it is just not there. Very strange. It shows that I have 1.13 with the expanded update, bonus pack, multimedia and the pdf manual. But Altarian Prophecy beta is nowhere to be seen. >:(
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
Checking just in case - are you a Drengin.net subscriber?

And did you update your SDC?
~SDC~
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Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
#6 by Veteran Geoffrey Montgomery - 12/19/2003 4:54:23 PM everytime I click install I get an error and windows says it needs to shutdown Stardock Central
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Same here. I get a "memory could not be read" error when clicking the install icon.
~SDC~

for completion smartexception provides this crash log (there is nothing more):

Stardock SmartException Logging Information
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OS Version : Windows 2000
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION

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Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
That's a very good question. I guess I had assumed I was since I had access to Stardock central and its updates, but since I am not seeing the beta I guess it may be that I am just a registered game user and not a full Dregin member!

Thank you all for your help anyway :d
Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top
That's a very good question. I guess I had assumed I was since I had access to Stardock central and its updates, but since I am not seeing the beta I guess it may be that I am just a registered game user and not a full Dregin member!
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A Drengin.net subscription is something you have to pay extra for. It gets you all of stardocks games and betas. You don't need it for Stardock Central.

~SDC~
Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top
On
I am full Dregin member! WHy i can't see the beta??
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On the software page check if you have checked the checkbox 'show pre-release' (that's a lot of checks!)

And then in the menu tools>check for updates

~SDC~
Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top
Thank you... I guess that explains my issue :D Pity though, I was sooo excited to have a look at Altarian Prophecy. I guess I'll have to wait until January (:(
Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top
Thank you!!!!

Map editor is slow process as hell.. it need to fix. :SURPRISED:

I am looking forward on it! ;)
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
No problems with seeing it in SDC here. :)
Do I need to make a back up of my current galciv directory, or these files will be saved to another location?


~SDC~
Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top
saves to different folder

~SDC~
Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top
When I try starting the map editor i get a 'd3d9.dll not found' error. Any idea what it could be? *scratches head*

I've also found that trying to load a saved game in Alterian Prophecy causes a CTD. :(

Haven't had much time to play with AP lately cuz I had a concert to go to (please forgive me LOL ).