Power Drain?

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When the event window show up, like the Most Powerful window et al., the screen on my lappy drops a few shades of brightness for about a second, just as if I pulled my power cord out, and then brightens up again. What is up with that?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It may actually be the game's brightness dropping; I've seen that happen as you describe with my desktop PC.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
It's likely your game was auto-saving during that quarterly report. That makes the screen dim breifly.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
(First Post, love the game).

Glad to hear other people have noticed this, I've been having the same issue since I got it Friday, thought it might be linked to my aging monitor or a graphics card issue, but glad to hear its an (apparantly) frequent occurance.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
LoL ...no really LOL... ..oh man..ok sorry sorry. This is just too funny. The screen Dims on purpose whenever the game auto-saves. So you got all worried over nothing. It will say saving at the bottom of the screen as well.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Not necessarily worried, but if you could elaborate as to the purpose of the screen dimming...


To let you know you can't click on buttons, due to the game pausing to save?

It bothered the heck out of me too, until I turned off quarterly reports. It now does its saving primarily during research complete screens, and the dimming bothers me a lot less there.