The Beastmaster

The Beastmaster

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Reply to Installing Twilight - Already have Gold Ed. installed? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Kryo, I bought and installed the new expansion... since I had hardly touched the old game, it will all be new to me (did play GalCiv I quite a bit though), but before get two weeks into a game and find that it crashes out all the time or something like that and have to restart it, I am wondering... Will the huge patch that downloads via Impulse for the orignal game fix this problem? Or do I need to uninstall and reinstall the whole thing via Impulse? &nbsp

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Reply to oh god no, ahhhh wtf!?!?!?!? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just some thoughts... Did you alter the game in any way? Have you run a virus scan with recent software to see if it's not the game itself, but something else that might be wrong with the CPU? Can you back up your CPU using an old system restore? (depending upon which version of Windows you have) So many possible things that could be going on, and those are just a few ideas.

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Reply to FAQ's - Galactic Civilizations in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't know about the others, but my computer is an older XP CPU. Athlon 1800, maximum Ram that the motherboard can handle is 1.5 GB, and as I recall, GC2 wanted 2 to 4 GB of RAM just for the swap file, as well as a dual core processor to get the most out of the A.I. routines.

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Reply to FAQ's - Galactic Civilizations in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Potent3006... For Windows ME, XP and such (so I assume it's that way on Vista too) in your program files file, if you have your game there: C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCivUltimate\AltarianProphecy\Data\SaveGames I have the Galactic Civilizations (Ultimate Edition) so your file name might be slightly different. Hopefully though, this will help lead you to your savegames file location, as it is likely that your savegames file is in a data file somewhere in your

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Reply to Questions in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Galactic Civilizations (Ultimate Edition) is version 1.52 bought at Target for $9.99 No idea if there is downloadable, etc, compatible linux version.

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Reply to Noobie question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm.. good question. Never even thought of that or looked into it. I'm curious, just for you, or for the major A.I. races as well? There is a huge money difference between the major A.I.s and the minors when you start, and it is there for a fairly good reason, but giving the A.I. a lot more money could really curtail the ability of bleeding the A.I. dry of it's research ability via trades for cash with it. (good or bad, depending upon if you want a good chance of winning the gam

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Reply to Cost to invade... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks, yeah I see it now (was looking in the documentation for this info and not finding it anywhere) I usually use Mini Soldiers... very cost prohibitive by comparison to other tactics. esssh

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Crash Debug text... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Anyone able to read this and tell me why this crashed? Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings. Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fullscreen Debug Message: Shell initialization complete Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game ***** Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99 Debug Message: LoadAllMod

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Reply to Sound Problems/Frequent Crashes Troubleshooting in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Anyone able to tell me why this crashed? Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings. Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f Debug Message: Now Fullscreen Debug Message: Shell initialization complete Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game ***** Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99 Debug Message: LoadAllModelsInDirectory

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Cost to invade... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Does anyone have a reference to what the costs are to invading a planet are? I can't find it in any of the instructions, or anywhere else, and wonder why the biggest deterence to invading other worlds in this game isn't the defenses of the enemy A.I., but it comes from the costs of 2,500 to 4,000 b.c. or more (money) per star system taken over. Does it cost less if you raze the planet before you take it over, or more? etc.

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Anomolies Glitch in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In games where the anomilies glitch, where they disappear from loading a save (or the game autosaves) and all anomilies Poof! at the same time, do they EVER come back and start reoccuring? Or is it time to just start a new game when it happens in the first year of your game. It's been decades, playing on a small map and they have not shown up again... all A.I. Survey ships sit idle and I see all the universe and none reappear. Too bad this bug was never fixed.

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Reply to Swap Page File Size in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, I'm trying to determine what size page file size I should be using for the inital ... and what size paging file size to use for the Maximum for my computer, as I'm adding new RAM to my CPU. Had 512 RAM with 2 256 Dimms in the first 2 slots, and used 1024 for inital and 1536 for maximum, which made the CPU very stable for all types of games, including MMORPGs. Odd cuz that was obviously not the 1.5 times ruling-recommended. The CPU can only handle 3 512's , and I'm

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Swap Page File Size in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

A couple weeks ago, before the patch came out, Stardock listed an excellent listing of how to set up the Swap Page File Size, and what they recommended for people to use until the new patch came out. After the patch, this info seems to have disappeared, or am I just blind?? Can anyone please tell me where this information is at? Or if it is deleted from the Website, ... Stardock, can you please repost it, or reconnect it in some way to this post??

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