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Reply to Does high performance count as a feature? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I really appreciate Stardocks performance optimizations. I have a very limited budget and either I buy new hardware or software. Usually I buy only games on bargain-sale. New games often wouldn't run on my machines anyway. I have only one exception: Stardock! I bought GC2 Gold for OS/2, GC1, AP and GCII for the full price because I love these games and they happened to run on my machine. DL will be my next investment, once I have some more spare time again. But I would really a

Reply to (Gasp!) Carielf wrote a dev journal! in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Blue is much better now but still far from optimal. I just selected all the text so it was highlighted. Then it showed up fine. Usually it would work. But not for this text. Because the font is so small and there is very little line feed between the lines. I have to increase font size to read it. But when I do that and highlight the text the lines overl

Reply to (Gasp!) Carielf wrote a dev journal! in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Very nice reading, thank you. Awesome, shame I had to highlight it to read it. (the text is in black) Yes, black on black is a hard read Luckily I have the Preference Toolbar PrefBar installed. One click on "Colors" and one refresh and the black background is gone. Now I can read it black on white what is

Reply to DEMO of Galactic Civilizations II: Gold Edition in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Can anyone give me an abstract of their Privacy Policy i.e. is there any guarantee that they don't give away the data to any other data collectors for money? Things like "only to our employees, agents and contractors who have a business reason to have access to such information." (note the term "contractors" and "business reason") are usually a good sign that your data will be on the big market in no time. It's a very har

Reply to DEMO of Galactic Civilizations II: Gold Edition in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Is it true that I must buy an account for FilePlanet to get this Demo? Will this change?

Reply to Five Reasons Windows Vista is good for gaming! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I will never ever buy Vista or a PC which comes bundled with Vista. I already have dual boot with Linux. Wine WWW Link">WineHQ made big steps forward in the last month and even directX 10 is not out of range WWW Link">WineConf 2006 (search for "Direct3D10"). The Wine developer are very helpful and willing to fix issues. Many games already run out of the box <a href="http://appd

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

@kyro Are you talking of a complete reinstall? Unfortunately this is not an option for me. There is too much configuration which would be lost and I need this machine daily. I could reinstall all kind of programs and drivers, but not the complete system. But maybe there isn't any other option with these stupid #@**m%! Windows machines and I have to live with it for some time. Are there any LINUX geeks at Stardock? I have LINUX on my second machine. Unfortunately GC II does not yet r

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I upgrades to the current version on Stardock Central and the problem remains. To start the game it is 2 Minutes to start the computer and 5 Minutes to start the game (i.e. the first screen, no game is started or loaded). QUICKSTART command line option skips doesn't help in this case. As stated above I guess it is the dialog with dxinfo which cost so many time. But I have no idea what I can do about it. It really stops me from using this wonderful game and I will definitely not

Reply to Merry Christmas GalCivII players! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Cool picture Best wishes for all of you

Reply to Planetary attack damages only calculated on victory in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I already used this in GC1. When you don't have enough transports to invade without a devastating invasion method you can do the following to keep the planet sane. Invade with one or two of your transports only, to reduce the number of defenders. Take over the planet in a second wave. You need some experience with battles to know how much "softening" you need, though.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Hi Frogboy, maybe you could give T-Man some free time to make the long overdue GC1 Metaverse aging*. This would really help to keep GC1 attractive. Thank you always for this great series of games. I'm a fan since good old GC2 times (for OS/2 ) and bought all sequels since that time (GC2 Gold, GC1, AP, GC2). *Currently your data only ages when you submit anything. Thus noone who

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

@Ynglaur My problem is only when I start the program and is definitely not related to paging or other low end machine problems. It does not occur when I start a new game (this is too fast to read the popup with the tips). The machine has 2 GB RAM and only 7 MB are used from the program when the problem occurs. Thus I don't think that your problem is related to this one in any way. @AngleWyrm I already tried to switch this option on or off. It doesn't make a

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Version 1.2 and the problem still exists. Any idea? Could it be that it takes so looong to get the DXDiag info, and what can I do about that? I reinstalled DirectX 9.0c but it didn't help.

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Version 1.2 beta 1 and the problem still exists. Any help?

Reply to Mods and bug fixes in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

we decided to err on the side of generosity because that generally results in less ranting These are the things you need to know to get the development lead <img

Reply to The UI and You in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

First of all I want to thank you for addressing all these issues. This game gets better and better. #19 by BoogieBac [Stardock] I'll definatly talk to Cari (head of ship movement) about the instant ship movement. Yes, please. <img src

Reply to Memory fragments in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I may be able to put up an unofficial test build with my changes later today as a link. I would be pleased to help you to make it rock solid. I have a nice test set of PCs on my hand. From a Athlon 500 with 256 MB, a 128 MB ATI card and Win98SE to a Athlon 64 3000+ with an Nvidia card and a Pentium IV 3200 with onboard Intel. The latter ha

Reply to Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hi Stardock, I now have 1.1 final and the problem still exists. I guess that it has something to do with the DirectX infos the game is asking for. Is there any possibility to skip that or do you have an idea how to improve that? As mentioned before the specs like grafic chip, driver version, DirectX version etc. are identical on the second machine but the problem is only on my main machine. I'rm running out of ideas. Please help

Reply to Why can't I post in the Bug Reports Forum? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

You can edit you initial post and set the sub-forum. This hworked for me

Reply to Hotseat and Linux support in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Did anymody try to run the game with WINE http://www.winehq.com/ ? Performance should not be an issue. The application database http://appdb.winehq.org does not yet show up something valuable for GC. I would really appreciate when Stardock could support a GC on WINE project. I think in the end this would pay off. Any LINUX geeks at Stardock? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Congrats.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

Reply to Turn doesn't progress in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This post got posted to GalCivII forums but not the bugs forums. Don't know why. I'm reposting it. This happened for me two times You can change the sub-forum afterwards, when you edit the initial post.

Reply to Hotseat and Linux support in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Did anymody try to run the game with WINE http://www.winehq.com/ ? Performance should not be an issue. The application database http://appdb.winehq.org does not yet show up something valuable for GC. I would really appreciate when Stardock could support a GC on WINE project. I think in the end this would pay off. Any LINUX geeks at Stardock? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Congrats.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

Game needs very looong for startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Since this former sticky https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=274&AID=104831 seems to be outdated and I was asked to create a new thread, I start this one. I have a serious (at least for me) problem on my main machine. The game takes very loooooong to start. It's more than 5 minutes On a very similar computer with the same

Reply to QUICKSTART crashes at startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The problem did exist in version 1.0X, too.

Reply to QUICKSTART crashes at startup in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

No, debug.err is a standard feature from the game. SmartException delivers more info in case of a crash. Yes, the resolution is identical to the normal resolution and it is on 32bit. Without the quickstart option it runs fine (apart from the very loooong time it needs to start). It does not help to reduce the resolution, too. It's totally unacceptable to force someone to the regional setting U.S. to play the game. I on