I used the search but couldn't find anything related. Maybe I just used the wrong keywords, but in that case I'm sure someone will point me in the right direction

Anyway, my problem is this: I bought GalCivII Ultimate a few days ago. Everything was fine, except the exe crashing after I quit the game, but that might've been Vista related. Doesn't matter.

I played a few short games, trying to get familiar with the game. I designed a few ships and so on, everything was OK. Then yesterday I started a new game and suddenly the pre-build ships looked somehow different. The colony ship was lacking it's colony module - only visually however - and the "flag ship" had no wings (Korx Dominion style).

I quit the game and started a new game later. While adjusting my race I clicked through the different ship styles in the Appearance section and saw that all ship styles are "broken". I checked the ship designer as well, with the same result. The ships don't seem to miss parts, some of them are simply invisible (like the colony module) while others have a very odd angle. Some of the ships look like they've just crashed at the speed of light into the next starbase.

Another problem is that for example I couldn't place the colony module by hand, because he wouldn't show me the module and so I couldn't put it on any of the hardpoints.

I already reinstalled the game twice and even manually deleted the folders (Install Folder and the one in My Games\...) before installing again, to make sure the game would install fresh copies of all files). I also updated my graphics driver, though I don't see why this should be a problem as the game already worked with the older version.

I hope someone knows how to fix this.

Here's the debug file: http://www.core-project.de/evo2/images/cache/debug.err

and a screenshot. All the different styles look broken like this or miss parts.