anyone know a link to see gal civ in the top 10?

Anyone know of a mirror for this patch? I find downloading directly from the site insanely slow.

Do I have to type in my serial number for the 3rd time to run the patch?

Will a copy and paste work this time?

omg my save and loading times have dramatically shortened.. no more waiting for 4mins to load the bloody thing everytime i start up my GC or make a new game!

Do I have to type in my serial number for the 3rd time to run the patch? Will a copy and paste work this time?

Once you've entered your serial for one patch, you don't need to for future patches.

Great the 1.1 patch realy improved gameplay. I'm still getting some minor bugs (wrong focus, as someone mentioned above), but it's realy great Keep up the good work....

I would like you to agree to amend your comment Brad. If any user chose a huge universe and built a huge ship with a full allotment of weapons and defenses and had less than 2 GB of physical memory, they indeed would have experienced this problem later in their games. To characterize the problem as experienced by say 15% of users is highly inaccurate. That implies the problem was the users configuration. It was NOT the user configuration that was at issue. It was a problem of memory management that would have affected ALL users who chose the huge universe and built huge custom designed craft if they had anything less than 2 GB of memory installed.

I'm having problems with invalid serial number as well. sdc has always worked for me in the past; don't know what's the problem now

OK..... I installed the update and I still have the same memory issues during my saves. I am losing my save file in the process as well. The computer I use should be more then powerfull enough to play this or any game and its a good clean windows install only used for gaming. I am playing a Gigantic Galaxy with abundant planets and I cant go more then 5 turns without a save crash. I am still crashing with about 1.67 - 1.71 of pagefile useage and I have a 4gig static page file. My computer has 1gig of ram as well and is a P4 3ghz with 800fsb and a radeon X800 pro with 256mb ram.... this is a powerfull computer and should have no problem playing the game. The patch had NO affect on helping me at all. Please help........ If I did not lose my save game slot I could live with the issue but having to constantly repeat turns has become very tiresome. I want to play on a gigantic galaxy as well. I love a long drawn out game and I simply can't enjoy one......

Mike

same here. can't update. says my serial is wrong.

here too. account information is invalid. maybe a sdc problem not a galciv2 problem?

In regards to the account information invalid  error we are looking at a couple possible isues.

1. We are currently experiencing some database issues which is causing intermittent connection problems to the database.  So when Stardock Central is trying to validate your account information it is unable to do so and thus returns this error.  Trying again a minute later may work.
   
   
2. You are attempting to download the Beta of GalCiv2.  However, there is no current beta available so an error is returned in the validation process which gets interpeted by Stardock Central as an Account Information Invalid error (yes we need to update our error codes). Now the issue is why is SDC attempting to download the beta when its not available.
   
   It's possible that your data files are out of date.  The current version of GalCiv 2 is v1.11.029. If you are seeing any other version then your data files are not up to date and need to be updated. To update  your data files go to Tools->Settings.  Select the "Interent" section and then click on the "Refresh XML Data" button to refresh Stardock Central's datafiles. 
   
   Or you might be able to just turn of "Show pre-release versions" as a possible work around. 

We are still invistaging these issues but if you could let us know if this information is helpful and what version you are attempting to download that could help us too.