Hollow Man

Hollow Man

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Reply to Intro Movie in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe I'm just not remembering the original properly. Can someone please be more specific on exactly what is now missing? -HM

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Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.11 released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Link Side note: I updated by manually ownloading the patch, but afterward, Stardock Central still wanted to update the tutorials, movies, and multimedia. Not sure why the downloaded patch file doesn't update all of the game. -HM

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Reply to Dev's PLEASE put patch 1.0X back up on D/L page. in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Unlikely. I found that link from an answer on their support page, for folks who bought a used copy of the game and can't update to 1.1 (because the original owner still has the game registered to them). But it can't hurt to download it and store it somewhere for the future! -HM

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Reply to Having to activate a patch? in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

My understanding is that once you activate the product you won't have to do it again. I bought the USA boxed version, installed it from the CD, then used Stardock Central to register the game and download the first official patch and some of the betas. This process gave me the sig.bin file. Last week I downloaded the 1.1 patch from their web site, then installed it last night (didn't use Stardock Central). It never asked me to activate - most likely because I already had

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Reply to Customizing Civs in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

To get the default race stats back, you'll need to delete the CurrentCustomRaceX.raceconfig files in this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\your username\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2 -HM

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Reply to Did GalCivII kill my video card? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Duma did say he reinstalled the current drivers, plus a few different older ones. In addition to trying the card in a different PC, I'd try using some kind of "driver cleaner" program to make sure all old driver parts are erased from the system, then install the newest driver again. -HM

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Reply to Did GalCivII kill my video card? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

No problem, Skelton42. You can go on to read the Blaze and Blade review, which is equally fantastic. Duma should paraphrase this quote to anyone else who says his video card was going to die anyway: "At this point, you might be wondering whether my monitor was about to die anyway. All I can say is that why don't you try using that same logic on the surviving family members of people killed in a plane crash and see how it holds up there." -HM

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Reply to Did GalCivII kill my video card? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I miss the guys of Old Man Murray. Just about everything they wrote was hilarious. But this sounds like a case where the card was starting to go. But to be sure it's the card and not some screwball Windows or driver remnant problem, try putting the video card in a different system. -HM

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Reply to Gamers anonymous in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Spellborn looks cool on a first look. Is it going to be subscription based? Chuck Yeager's Flight Sim - what a game! -HM

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Reply to Gamers anonymous in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Psio, I have not played Guild Wars as much as I would've liked, but what I have done so far is cool. It loads fast, updates to the game load rapidly (and yeah, it seems there's some update every day!), and the game plays very smoothly on my PC (and it sure is pretty). There were some laggy issues first few weeks of release, but that seems to have passed (we'll see what happens this weekend, with the release of Factions). I'm LANning with friends this weekend, and my prima

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Reply to Gamers anonymous in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

What, no Q3? My pile of games is huge. Unfortunately, I tend to buy them more than play them, so there's lots that I've not finished. I've currently gotten back into gaming after a 6-8 month lull, so I'm trying (with moderate success) to play GalCiv2, Civ4, Serious Sam 2, Guild Wars, Freespace 2, and Knights of the Old Republic, all at the same time. It doesn't begin to scratch the surface of all the games I have. And unfort., Half Life 2: Episode 1 and SiN Episodes are

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Reply to Extremely disappointed in patching process in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

TheFeshy, Unfortunately, you erred when you assumed you only needed the serial for using the Metaverse. Stardock has explained in their literature that you would need a registered game to use the patches. Granted they weren't explicit as to the fact that you'd need to enter it at initial install, plus again when patching, but they did make it clear that a serial is needed to use the updates. -HM

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Reply to V1.1 Without Internet in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Do any of you guys own a Valve product? Where you simply CAN'T update unless the machine that has the game is connected to the Internet? There's no option to be able to download the patches as separate files. If you don't have the Internet, you simply can't patch the game (and you have to have connectivity to even run the game the first time out). Granted Stardock's methods aren't perfect, but like with most things in the world, there is worse out there. -HM

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Reply to Error: Not Enough memory... bwa?? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, according to Stardock, 256 MB of RAM is the minimum. Of course it isn't clear from the system requirements if they mean you'll be ok with small galaxies, but you won't be able to play on large. Make sure you don't have anything unusual using up memory. Go to the Windows Task Manager and see what's running. -HM

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Reply to Extremely disappointed in patching process in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

With Valve, it's unfortunately worse because you can't even play Half-Life 2 without first activating it. So yes, even if you bought the CDs in a box at the store, you need to have Internet in order to start it up the first time (after that, it's possible to put it in "off-line mode"). At least Stardock will allow you to play GalCiv2 the first time out without activating it. It's only when you want to patch it that you need some sort of connectivity. Valve also won't let

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