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GalCiv2 and WIndows Vista?

Has anyone tried it yet?

June 9, 2006 3:26:01 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Has anyone tried this yet? I managed to get the beta download from MS (They are out of keys, sorry). I am just wondering if anyone has tried this on the new OS and if they were able to play the game. I am going to be installing it this weekend and I wanted to know if GalCiv2 will work for me. If not, I will wait till I finish my current game.
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Reply #1 June 9, 2006 4:36:12 PM
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I downloaded the Beta and it works fine. Be sure you update all your drivers as this could be a machine crippling install if you don't. It actually works pretty good. Galciv2 and Galciv both worked flawlessly.
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Reply #2 June 9, 2006 5:15:19 PM
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Thanks for giving me the idea to do this I've just downloaded SD central on my vista machine and will have to wait a while to download Galciv2 the only problem is I just about get vista running on a gfx card with 64 MB of memory so I only hope Galciv2 will work if not ill try installing Galciv1.
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Reply #3 June 9, 2006 6:14:25 PM
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Both versions 1 and 2 of the Vista beta don't get along with me, then again I tend to give them a serious workout, and Microsoft operating systems don't take to that very well.
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Reply #4 June 13, 2006 3:40:24 AM
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Ha windows Vista, why doesnt MS fix XP's security holes FIRST!
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Reply #5 June 13, 2006 1:43:36 PM
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Because they can't...

Vista is an attempt by M$ to write an OS without all the flaws that make XP unfixable. Fat chance!
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Reply #6 June 13, 2006 4:37:01 PM
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Because Xp is an upgrade of 2000, which was an upgrade of 98, which was an upgrade of 95. Thats why the holes won't fix. No-one remembers how. Vista is something NEW, so they're trying to make it work.

And the game has always been listed as Vista compatable.
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Reply #7 June 13, 2006 7:57:29 PM
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Win2k was not an upgrade from 98, it was the upgrade from NT.
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Reply #8 June 14, 2006 7:09:36 AM
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ít runs un vista, but the map scrolling and zooming is rather slow (normal and strategic view), although the graphics in the ship designer are really fast and CIV 4 is running well.

I'm running on nforce2 and GT6800 ith latest beta drivers. Anyone out there, who can play with a smooth map???

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Reply #9 June 15, 2006 12:47:44 AM
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Made some interesting observation about the Perfromance on vista:

The game runs smooth like a charm on Vista Beta 2 if you hide the content area !

It seems like that the minipap itself causes some problems on vista/nvidia.
But if you disable it it runs really great...
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Reply #10 June 15, 2006 1:25:16 AM
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http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060615.html Dilbert relates to delays of promised patches
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