Everything went white!

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I was in a battle, right clicked on my ship, and everything went white that wasn't a button, planet, star, and ship. I shrunk down my game to get at a screen capture program, but it fixed itself. I know this could be just me, it's happened on other games, but if others get this it should be looked into.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's you I believe. Maybe something with your video card? Post a debug.err so we can see the precise specs.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had the same thing happen, Nvida 5800. Didn't do anything special. May have been low ram, happened after about 500 turns. Though it wasn't recoverable I was still able to save the game, so it's not a major bug.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Common bug with nVidia cards, also sometimes found on other cards, pretty much any brand, because the actual fault is with DirectX. Most manufacturers have compensated in driver releases. It is *always* good advice to try updateing your video (and audio) drivers first, then the latest DirectX, and then making sure you have the latest game patch (release or beta, whichever you prefer, but I have found the latest beta much better than the latest release version).
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah happened to me too after a really long session, 6800 gt video. I'm probably not running the very latest drivers. I just saved, quit and relaunched the game.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If it has happened for you in other games as well, then it is very likely to be system related. As the folks above have mentioned, a video driver update, a Direct X update, or a video card upgrade are by far your best bets for correcting the issue.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yup I was getting the "White Screen of death" too. Using a 5900 Ultra. Updated my video drivers and it solved the problem!
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I get it also with a 7800 SE
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yar, I get that too on my 6600 thats only 4 months old. Newest drivers wont fix this as I have the 3/9 drivers and it still does it. I'm thinking it's a heat or ram issue myself. I usually save, shut down and let comp cool for an hour and fire it up again and I'm good to go for anouther 8 hours or so, heh.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have a two month old 6600, newest drivers, latest DirectX and I have seen the white screen once and a purple one at least three times while playing all the versions of GC2 since it was released.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I get it also with a 7800 SE


Ditto Weyr - 7800 GS. It is nothing to do with the game, but as Mistoffeles said a DirectX / Nvidia hangup - haven't had it since the nvidia driver update on 17th March, so hopefully they've fixed it (or at least made it happen less).