Are your video drivers up to date, and are you using any third party mouse software?
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If that's the case, then the issue probably isn't related to the cheat argument at all. Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem. The location you'll find the debug.err in varies depending on which game you're playing: [b]Dread Lords: [/b] My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2 [b]Dark Avatar: [/b] My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar [b]Twilight of
The correct argument is "cheat" (singular), not cheats. Also if you just made the shortcut, make sure that the run-in path is set correctly.
There's a toggle button on the bottom left corner of the camera control widget.
Also make sure that any firewalls you have are set to allow the game.
Please contact [email protected] about this.
Please contact [email protected] about this.
He'll need to have them allow traffic on ports 6000 and 7000 (just those two, not a range). Additionally 6112 if he wants to host games, though many games use that one so it should already be available.
Does he use residential cable or is he on a university network or similar which may be blocking traffic on ports beyond the basic network functions?
For future reference, please just report the spammers and otherwise ignore them. Replying to spam just makes for more cleanup.
Since it seems to be failing at the same point (only with no driver error this time), please contact [email protected] for further troubleshooting.
It appears to be a video driver issue, and as your current drivers are dated 2007, it's definitely time for an update. If Dell has nothing newer, try laptopvideo2go.com.
Impulse would have updated them as if you'd bought them individually, so you can just run whichever you want to play directly, from Impulse, or make a shortcut to each exe.
You most likely have some firewall software popping up in the background. If you can't alt-tab out to allow it, try running the game in windowed mode temporarily.
You should be able to just move it in explorer then use the Detect Application option in Impulse to correct the registry entries (or do that manually if you're familiar with the registry). For the future, you can set the default install locations in the folders section of Impulse's preferences, as well as set it to just prompt for a location on each install.
The registration shouldn't make any difference. Ultimate is just a bundle of DL/DA/TA, so you can choose to play the base game or either expansion as you please.
It should install right over top without any complaint, though if you prefer to keep it clean and do an uninstall, doing so shouldn't remove any settings, saves, or ship designs you have (though those won't be portable to DA/TA).
Turn down the strategic zoom slider in the options.
As moosetek noted, sometimes a reboot is needed after the installation as Windows may not immediately register the new fonts. Please do not ignore this solution simply because you may think it's silly. You may also need to run [link="http://files.kryofx.com/GC2langfix_64.reg"]this file[/link] as well. If the problem still persists after a reboot, please contact [email protected].
As I said, if the common fix does not work in your case, please contact formal support. We cannot condone or support the use of pirate copies as a solution.
If you're running into a bad file error from a disc install *and* from Impulse, that's really odd. Please contact [email protected] and they'll look into it.
It's fine if people have stopped reporting for now, as at this point our internal build is so far removed from the last public build that such reports wouldn't be terribly meaningful. It's still a ways off from being ready for public testing, though.
$57 NZD is right about the current exchange rate on the $39.95 USD list price. It's basically the same ($0.02 less) as buying the base game and both expansions at their regular prices. And yes, the sale on the base game does not apply to bundles containing it.
The line "Debug Message: Danger Will Robinson, no Stars!!!!" indicates that either the data files are missing or the language isn't set correctly. If the registry patch did not help, that eliminates the latter. Go ahead and try a reinstall if you like (unless you bought a retail copy, you must use Impulse), and if that also does not help please contact [email protected] for further troubleshooting.
[quote]the key question is how many people can a given promotion realistically target.[/quote] That's the nub. While the default behavior of Steam is to pop up ads and the store page, both of those behaviors can be (and likely are) changed by users. So I get counted as an "active account" because I got bored a few weeks ago and played a couple of rounds of Plants vs. Zombies, even though I never saw an ad, never browse the Steam store, don't use their friends or community over