Hey guys, new to the forums but have been playing GalCiv for ages and GalCiv2 beta since the beginning...

I'm having a very irritating problem with the latest patch 1.0x. The settings for the game(s) that I encountered the errors are as follows:

Game 1:
Abundant Hospitable planets
Rare Planets
Very Fast Tech
Technology/Conquest victory only
Scattered Stars
Occasional Stars
Medium Galaxy
Difficulty = Normal

6 Opponents - Drengin, Torian, Terran, Altarian, Yor, Arcean
Me = Custom race (Galactic Empire, if you must know... Go cross-over universes!! Emperor Palpatine!)

Everything was fine up until what would certainly have been the final turns of the entire game. The session was very warlike and backstabbing. Torian/Drengin/Yor fighting constantly. I built up and conquered some minor race, then conquered the Yor. (Who, conveniently... gave the rest of their planets to the Torians when they knew they were lost.)
The Drengin and I allied since we were both evil... And I conquered the Altarians. Torians declared war on me, peace treaty signed after we both take heavy losses.

Build up again... Go and conquer the Terrans. The Arceans, for whatever reason (we were close) decided to declare war on me... They were annihilated. After conquering the Arceans, the Torians were next.

The Drengin were so weak it was not even an issue, they would be last merely for sport. The Torian war went extremely well... They had 2/3 worlds left and I was invading their homeworld. Right before I was about to do it, however, they proposed peace, and I managed to get some tech I had wanted out of them after trading some money and earning a peace treaty. This is where the error occured.

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Upon declaring war once again on the Torians by attacking their homeworld, I destroyed all of the defending vessels but could not invade. (I had many troop transports sitting right there, I kept trying to get them to invade... but they wouldn't) I thought, alright, maybe they are just out of moves or something. So, I hit the turn button. The turn button disapeared and no other button would work. I could not exit to menu to save and load up again, I could not go to actual diplomacy (but I could go the diplomacy TAB, just not the actual conversation with the other races), and I could not go to the menu screen or get out of the game through traditional means. I had to CTRL-ALT-DEL the game.

Given that I was about to win, and I had been playing for a few hours, I let it go and hoped it was nothing... That was last night. Today there was another occurence.
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Game 2:
Abundant Habitable Planets
Occasional Planets
Occasional Stars
Scattered Stars
Very Fast Tech
Technology/Conquest victory
Large Galaxy
Difficulty = Normal

9 Opponents - Terran, Altarian, Torian, Drengin, Yor, Arcean, Iconian, Thalan, Korx
Me = Another custom race (Merkurians, this time... Akin to my name... My own personalized bad ass race)

Here's the basic gist of the game up until the error:
Everyone's expanding. Minor races are annihilated by competing big wigs. Korx are conquered by Altarian/Terran alliance. Thalans conquer a few worlds in war with Altarians. They reach peace. Drengin fall to Iconians. I declare war on Iconians, I conquer them except for the conquered Drengin worlds that they surrender to the Yor. I declare war on the Yor. I conquer the Drengin plants that had traded hands a few times already. Yor surrender to the Arceans. The Arceans during these wars had conquered the Torian.
Check list of living civilizations: Terran, Altarian, Arcean, Thalan, Me.

I decide to conquer the Altarians... The Terrans and Altarians had a fall out for whatever reason during a war with the Thalans. (No one gained any ground, it was back and forth for border worlds.) I amassed a few invasion fleets and sent them at a number of key Altarian worlds. We are at peace at this time, here is where the error occurs.

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My primary invasion fleet, sitting right beside Altaria, has many fleets stacked up. I invade Altaria, and require a vote from the people (I'm either a republic or democracy at this point). They vote yes, and I invade. I conquer Altaria and move a garrison of defence ships onto it. I go to my other invasion fleets parked beside their respective target worlds and am about to invade when suddenly... My orders begin falling on deaf ears. None of the fleets would attack their targets. On one world, there was no defence, and I ordered a fleet of three troop transports to invade (they were already sitting there). They would NOT invade the planet. Frustrated, I thought again, maybe, just maybe, they are out of movement turns or something. I click the turn button and 'lo and behold the turn button stays down and I can't click any other button again. I am now quite frustrated with this. I DID save it before declaring war on the Altarians, so I thought... Ah, maybe I can reload and try again!!! So I restarted my computer (after CTRL-ALT-DEL to close GalCiv2) and loaded up the save game again. I did everything the same, and everything happened the same way; same error, same time, same manner.
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Please help. I want to finish conquering the galaxies that this problem occurs in.

Here are my computer specs:
Windows XP SP2
Athlon 64-bit 3200+
1 Gig of DDR RAM
160 Gb HD
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
GeForce 6800 GT
Latest version of Direct X

All of my drivers are updated.

NOTE:
Whenever I play with stock races, this doesn't seem to occur. Of course... Only lately have I gotten into the blood-thirsty dominate the galaxy kind of mood with large numbers of opponents and large chunks of territory to fight over.

Ahh.. It's so nice to have a replacement for MoO2, for the most part.


Thanks for any help you guys can offer.
Merku