I sent an e-mail and never got a response (and this is the third time that I have posted on the forum):

PROBLEM #1:

I read about GalCiv2 ont he forums at paradoxplaza.com. Loved MOO & MOOII but never played many other space 4X games (sure I played MOO3, that 5X game to find out that the fifth X stood for "Xcrutiating"). Love the game but here's the question/problem:

I also want to run it on my laptop as my PC is not always available (like if I'm on the road or, for that matter, the couch). I can install it fine of course but when I install the update to 1.1 I get the error "The product appears to be validated but the serial number or the SID don't match."

Now right #2 of the license agreement says I can install it to my laptop (I am the primary user on both machines) and i would also like to update it to the latest version.

Any assistance would be appreciated - thank you.

Problem #2: Memory usage. Playing on Humongously Gigantic map (Win2K, Athlon 64 3000+, 1Gb Ram, NVidia 6800 LE, etc.) I have Task Manager Performance monitor running on my 2nd monitor. I run GalCiv2 and the save game file loads in like 1/20th of a second and then I watch my CPU usage immediately go up to 100% and over ther the span of about 3 minutes my memory usage climbs from 180K to almost 1.8 before the game loads (w/no hard disk access at ALL until the 1 Gb of physical memory is used up).

What's going on over there where you are?!? Quite amusing, really!!

Thanks for your kind attention.