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My Apologies to Stardock

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My Apologies to Stardock

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After having a programmer friend of mine spend a day with me completely wiping my computer clean with a low level format and running various tests we have finally got GalCiv2 to work properly. We have dedicated many, many hours to finding a solution to this problem and it turns out it laid within the GeForce 6600 card. For some reason the game doesn't like the card. It works fine for all my other games but we had to test everything. We finally switched out the 6600 for my old 5700LE and the game fired up with no problems.
Brian Clair and Mike Haber tried relentlessly to help find the problem but not having access to my computer proved to be the pivotal factor. Even though they did not fix the problem for me I have to apologize for flaming the company because they did try and help after my many rants were noticed.
For any others that have the 6600 video card, I would suggest you swap out just to see if the game runs on another card. My friend is going to be running some diag. on the 6600 to see if the card itself is flawed or if it is a compatability issue. My friend did make a solid observation in that we put enough use on a video card gaming in one year that equates to 4 years of regular computing.

So in closing, I offer my humble apologies to Stardock for flaming them about their service. Even though they did not find the cure for my problem, I truely believe they tried their hardest to help me.

Psio

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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hey Psio! I was only foolin around my m8, no one's banning no one. We are all one big happy galatic family here.
Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
6600 and noo problems for me. Just installed it a month ago and using the november drivers as the new ones mess up my machine and nothing shows correctly.

Glad you got the problem sorted though!!
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've got a 'Chaintech' 6600GT and don't have any graphical problems. I only have an Athlon XP 1800+ so things get a little choppy in the late game though. Definately need to upgrade this summer.

That's the only thing I hate about computer gaming, constantly upgrading, optimizing, forking out hundreds of dollars. Gotta feed the habit though
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
from what i read here i think its not only your fault psion.
i dont know in which way you flamed but being nice and gentle is better in every situation. if things get bad the one who acted right is the moral winner.

okay, your problem:

if your card runs other games for hours without any problem its very unlikely the card is broken.
its more likely a compatibility problem. to save stardock: its not easy to write working games for EVERY hardware-combination outthere. more precise: its impossible.
i think there is some weired incompatiblity with your graphicscard stardock does not know about. maybe its a bug in the driver which occurs only on your very same cardtype and stardock didnt wrote a work-around for it. whatever. in pc-development there can 1000 and 1 little thingies which can prevent a game from starting. beginning from broken hardware to a small bug in the motherboards drivers which only surfaces when you've installed a certain amount of ram of a special brand and a GPU which runs a certain BIOS.

to be sure such things never happen buy a console (which is no serious option for me - i have one but only for fifa games with friends)
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just thought you should know that I game quite a bit and my sony desktop (from 2001) is still running.

yup I actually play GalCiv2 with a Pentium 1.6 Ghz, 512 MB Ram and (wait for it...) a 64 MB nVidia GeForce2 Ti.

the end game takes some time to complete though (choppiness), and quiting to the desktop takes like 4 minutes, lol.
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
hey prozombe, mine's only *slightly* better than you... 1.79 Ghz Pentium M, on IBM Thinkpad T42... yep, quitting takes a couple minutes, zooming in and out even on medium maps takes abt 30 secs to load between 2D & 3D objects, and ships tend to "teleport" a lot during battle sequences...

but nevertheless, it's what's underneath that ultimately counts...
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yea, i spend most of the game time on the 2D map (zoomed far out), takes a while to get used to playing by symbols, but the time it saves is worth it. lol, on my settings, habitable planets are just blue, no texture mapping whatsoever.

so I got two questions:

1) this 64 MB nVidia GeForce2 Ti i have, it says it doesn't support DirectX 9 - yet I am able to play some games like GalCiv2 and Dawn of War (which says it requires DX 9). Anyone know why this might be?

2) I am eager to buy a new computer, but something is telling me to wait until the new MS Vista comes out (with Direct X 10.0) and for stabilization of new dual cores. Do you think waiting for these things is worth it or do you think it just doesn't matter when you get a new PC?
Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
2) I am eager to buy a new computer, but something is telling me to wait until the new MS Vista comes out (with Direct X 10.0) and for stabilization of new dual cores. Do you think waiting for these things is worth it or do you think it just doesn't matter when you get a new PC?


I personally am going to wait until about patch 3, and then build a new one, specifically so I can get a PhysX card while not having to pay for an alienware. Getting a windows OS when it comes out isn't a good thing, since they have to fix everything first. But, I suppose you could get it, and learn how to work all these new features.

Isn't Brad beta-testing it? Maybe he can say if it's worth getting. So, we wait til he's back, then rebump the thread
Reply #34 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Your transgression has been far too severe, Psio. You have insulted the Gods of the Stardock Pantheon. Prepare to be nerve-stapled!

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Nah, just kidding. We all make mistakes.