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That doesn't look like antialiasing, that looks like someone applied a Gaussian blur to the image.

I can half confirm the font problem, though it only appeared after I tried replacing the default info card font (Sins Agency Bold) with a standard Windows font. (I have since switched to Sins Officina Sans, which I find more readable than Agency Bold, and which works without problems.)

Your username should go between the double backslashes, e.g. c:\users\username\appdata...

You can manually edit your user.setting to change the resolution and/or antialiasing settings: [quote]Vista: C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting\user.setting XP: C:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting\user.setting[/quote] The relevant lines are [quote]VideoFullScreenWidth VideoFullScreenHeight VideoMultiSampleType[/quote]

Yeah, windows update drivers are usually quite old and therefore not much good :)

I'm new to this game too (and haven't played much RTS before either). After playing through the tutorials, I'd start with a small scenario with one or maybe two AI opponents on easy. That way, you (hopefully) won't have to many ships or planets to manage at first. Then just keep building different ships and structures, trying to find out what they're good for, fend off enemy attacks and as soon as you have a decent fleet together, try to initiate some of your own. BTW I think the user i

Now the question of course is whether turning up gamma should make the text unreadable or whether it should be considered a bug :)

Interesting. For the record, I have a Nvidia 7800 GS (256 MB).

Must be a configuration problem on your side. I'm running the game on a slower rig than yours on Windows Server 2008 (x64) and the frame rate is maxed out most of the time (i.e. equal to refresh rate). BTW, I did notice that frame rate tends to plummet if I play around with the graphic settings too much. It's back to normal after restarting the game, though.

I think you need to adjust "offsetFromTopCenterWhenFullScreenDialogOpen" in "Window\InfoCard.window". Reduce the x value in the [x, y] pair to shift to the left. Setting x to 0 will move the window to the center.

You can try editing Font\InfoCardStandard.font in your Sins folder...

I'm running this game (patched to 1.09) on Windows Server 2008 (x64) and it's working fine as long as I have graphic settings below "highest", so the OS can't be the problem. If it's a hard freeze the problem usually is hardware related. BTW, if I set the graphic settings to "highest" the game crashes and the system [i]seemingly[/i] freezes while the crash dump is created. Have you tried reducing the graphic settings?

The 1.1 beta has the version number 1.09 (since it isn't quite 1.1 yet :)). So, if you have 1.09, you already have the latest version.