Daemon Jax

Daemon Jax

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Reply to Nvidia Turing - RTX 2080 etc... in PC Gaming GalCiv3 Forums

As far as gaming goes, one 1070 runs everything at 1920x1080 res which is all we need. Hell, my previous card (AMD HD 7970) did just fine at that res too on current-ish games. I really don't know why I would consider upgrading or buying more cards (I have 3 1070s now), except for mining cryptocurrency. Maybe younger gamers (who don't remember playing games just fine at 640x480 in all its VGA 256 color glory) need 1440p or higher -- I certainly don't. God,

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My Feedback on Intrigue + all DLCs: AI, Economy, Under/Overpowered Strategies in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I've been playing Intrigue + all DLCs and I'm having a lot of fun with it. There's a lot to like about this game and I now prefer it over Galciv2, and I loved that game! I can tell that a lot of thought has gone into every mechanic currently in the game. I can try and read the devs mind (I'm not just a gamer, I'm also a programmer) on why things were done -- I think I totally get it and I it all works together great for the most part. Most of the time I'm very

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Reply to Ten Galactic Civilizations III changes coming in early 2019 in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

" Tech tree overhaul. This will only be in the expansion because if it were put into the base game a lot of people would get upset I suspect. There are a lot of new techs but most of the "specialist" techs are being removed . Why? They're just not very interesting. A 10% bump in something is enough enough to justify the clickity click click of the tech. Every tech sh

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Reply to 2.0 - everything is very dark in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Same issue here. 2.0 Win7 x64 w/ AMD 7970 And I have all the DLCs. It's pretty noticeable. To me, it looks like light cast from stars only hit ships when zoomed in all the way. Otherwise, they're cloaked in shadows with ambient light. In any case, it's exactly as shown as the OP's first and second screenshots. I assumed it was intentional as a performance optimization. </p

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Reply to Is this a great opening strategy, or just a bug exploit? (TotA 2.03) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the replies. :D I've discovered that it's harder to pull off on Suicidal difficulty, because most of the AIs immediately build higher cost scout ships (61+ build cost). So, I have to focus more on diplomacy tech in order to continuously grab all their scouts + miners. I still do something similar on Suicidal, but I ditched the idea of building the Galactic Guidebook altogether (no longer any reason to keep the build cost for surveyors in the 30s

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Is this a great opening strategy, or just a bug exploit? (TotA 2.03) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I'm playing as Terrans with most of my ability points sunk into increased ship speed. Here's the my basic strategy: 1) Tech rush to Universal Translators 2) Trade my Influence and non-diplomacy technologies for all other technologies + scout/miner ships. 3) Upgrade miner ships to constructors/colony ships. Use scouts to explore. 4) Tech rush to Sensors MK3, while continue trading 5) Build Galactic Guidebook structure.<

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Reply to Rush Build Company in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

For ships it's always cheaper to use the first payment plan that has weekly repayments (so it's the second one down in the list)... at least, with the Terran race. Go figure. For planets... it seems that paying for the improvement outright is the better choice UNLESS you NEED a particular structure NOW, AND can't afford the total cost this turn. EDIT: Maybe the second option is always better with "cheap to build stuff" (as someone mentioned earlier in t

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Reply to Conversation Mod 1.1 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Sounds good... but, how do I know it really works? If it does work, and it corrects a problem with dialogues, then why hasn't Stardock corrected it themselves? Just wondering...

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Reply to how to be a conqoring civ in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

You won't be conquering anything until you get to Planetary Invasion tech -- and even once you get there, you need to research a few more techs to get your soldiering up. There's no point in going to war before that. Make sure you're always the #1 civilization militarily so that other civs won't declare war on you first. Once you take down the first civ, it's just a mop up operation.

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Reply to Crashes before new game begins in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I reinstalled: 1) 6.8 Cat drivers 2) ATI Tray Tools 3) Zonealarm And it still works. The optional AMD 64 cpu drivers are no longer downloadable from AMD's site, so I can't test that. I suspect that it was driver related. You know how these things go... everything works fine until it doesn't. So I think: Uninstalling ATI drivers > Reboot > Reboot again > Reinstall drivers > Reboot woulda solved it. Probably. <img src="http://images.stard

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Reply to Crashes before new game begins in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Good news: It works now. Bad news: I tried several things at once, so not entirely sure which one fixed it. 1) Uninstalled Zonealarm firewall software 2) Uninstalled display drivers 3) Uninstalled ATI Tray Tools 4) Uninstalled the optional AMD 64 CPU drivers. 5) Installed ATI Catalyst 6.5 drivers (was using 6.8). I'll try and narrow it down to help others.

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Reply to Crashes before new game begins in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Same OS... Windows XP SP2... I reinstalled because now I'm running SATA hard drives at RAID 0. That was 2 months ago... EDIT: No problems with other games or software. Reinstalled DirectX 9c -- no improvement. I'll try different ATI drivers...

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Reply to Crashes before new game begins in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Updated to the 1.3 beta patch. No improvement. Reinstall DX9, maybe? Here's my complete .cra file: [SmartException] LastEx=GALCIV2.EXE File=F:\Program Files\Stardock\SmartException\GALCIV2.EXE_1156557507.CRA LastEx2=F:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\galciv2.exe CrashAddr=4fe74e72 Stardock SmartException Logging Information https://www.stardock.com/products/smartexception ----------------------------------------------- <

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