uglycow

Heh, SotS star map was definitely not disorientating unless you have a deficiency... Or you have created a 50+ stars galaxy. So you limit yourself to a galaxy below 50 stars? Thats not a very fun game. (In my opinion.) It appears that the 3d galaxy map does affect game play for you. I have SOTS and BoB by the way and I never play on such a small map. I like the galaxy to be realistic as the game will let it. I want as many stars as possible. <br

I know that a new version has been released, [.76(b).018] today but just in case this helps anywhere. I was playing with [0.76(b).017]. I was playing a long, long game and it crashed either when it autosaved, or when a huge enemy fleet came to one of my planets. It didn't say anything about emailing a dmp file, I couldn't even fine one on my computer anywhere. But I opened smart exception and it had logged it. So I sent it to support@stardock. Which I probably wasn't supposed to but I didn't no

Nevermind. I found the file in this directory on Vista, interesting. "C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting" Here is what is typed in the file concerning autosave when I opened it. GS_AUTOSAVE FALSE AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL 300 So autosave is off, (if I'm reading the correct line in the file), so it's not the autosave. <

Uglycow, is it possible you have AutoSave enabled? It would freeze the game around every 3-4 minutes. You can check this in c:\documents and settings\username\application data\sins of a solar empire\setting\user.setting file (notepad will open it) and check if Autosave is enabled. If so, change it to FALSE. But it only freezes like that on 4 star or larger galaxies. I played with max amount of ai on the smallest galaxy and it never froze like that. Once

I thought the amount of ships you can have is mainly controlled by how many planets under your control, but I believe there is a way to increase it further by upgrading planet owned.

I do have the latest version of DirectX9.0(whatever) from the Microsoft Website installed on my computer as some games I have will not run on DX10; including this one. Here is the print out of my dxdiag file. ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 6/22/2007, 19:32:48 Machine name: XD-PC Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205) Language: English (Regional Settin

The game keeps freezing graphically but continues to run. The sound is still going and the voice that advertises messages still goes but on screen everything stops. So far I have found a way out of it, I do the 'alt+tab" thing and go to the desktop and then go back to the game and everything that was frozen now jumps to were it actually is. It is annoying when it happens during battles especially. I can hear shots being fired and explosions but not until I do the alt+tab combo do I know what exa

Do you have to uninstall the beta 1 for beta 2 to work? I've beta tested Stardock GalCiv2 and DA and I never had to uninstall those betas when a new beta came out. I realize this is probably a stupid question as it may be answered by actually looking around the forums, but I'm lazy and in a hurry. Edit: Never Mind. I'm silly

If I were to pre-order now could I still be able to download the beta, or am I hopelessly lost?