GAMING SYSTEMS

My desktop runs the game flawlessly (solid 70fps with 4xFSAA on) with an Athlon64 3200, 1GB of PC3200, and a 128MB Radeon 9600XT. Nothing special by any means... in fact it's actually pretty low-end by today's gaming hardware standards.

The game has not crashed since before release.

I have a HP Media Center PC m7360n, slightly altered (ram increased and replaced the video card and CPU fan).
Which is basically a Pentium D @ 2.8GHz, 3GB ram, 300GB SATA hard drive, Evga Nvidia Geforce 6800 GS SE CO 256MB video card (which is the factory overclocked version with a copper heatsink), and a honkin' big Zalman CPU fan.

The only real crashing problems I have had has been with a couple beta versions of the game. The first when they were working out the new combat system and this last couple beta's. Other than that it has been nearly rock stable. Nearly so, because there is a random CTD every now and then. But few, and far between.

I paid around $1200 for the basic computer package, so it was not top of the line, or a "gaming" machine by a long shot. I keep up to date with updates and drivers, and make sure the GalCiv2 folders are excluded from the real-time virus scanner (BitDefender, by the way), and that there are no unnecessary tasks running in the background.

If you are crashing that often it is possible you have an overheating problem. This game really uses the CPU to its full potential, as well as video, so they do tend to get pretty hot. Adequate case and component cooling is critical, especially with the faster processors and video cards.

unless you guys are using five thousand dollar machines and one thousand dollar graphics cards?

yes I am.. rich guy... lol () I even don't know when did I get this computer... but I am a rich guy... I just don't spend on computers, I spend on chips, all day I eat, eat and eat, I look like my own house! that's so classic, a fat rich gut eating chips in front of his computer and...never stop eating fries.. right now I'm eating more fries and I got a really good ice cream waiting for me in the fridge... (all of that never happened...that was one of my sick jokes really sick like me! ...) well, I wish I could be rich so I could buy new computer, this one is from (I think) 1998... it's looking like a trash anyway...

well, for your Q. I got the game crashes sometimes but it's only because of my moddings on the original files so...

My computer has been put togeather though out the ages, always being upgraded and have parts swapped... currently it's a P4 2.8Ghz HT, 1GB DDR RAM, 200GB HD, Soundblaster Live!, and 6800XT 256MB system. It can play the likes of Half Life 2 and Quake 4 pretty good.

besides from the beta versions the game rarely crashes on me.
i HAD a 2.6G processor, 512 MB RAM with a geforce 4 4200 TI 128 videocard.
game ran good on it.

i upgraded my comp to 1.5G Ram and a geforce 6600 256 MB videocard.
game runs even better now
the big games with 300 planets now runs smoother, but it ran good before to.

Old Computer mine is 2002 windows xp home edition with an intel celeron processor 1.10ghz. I currently upgraded it though to play the game to 512 of memory by ultra and got nvidia 4000mx graphics card and it works for me. Took a bit of doing but I had some memory incompatibility issues with the memory I first got kingston which has 4 pins instead of two which kingston pointed that out and pointed me to ulta which had the right memory which is sdram instead of the previous order which was ddr so i got 2 256 sd ram inside. I ordered from tiger direct and they are excellent about helping also so i am a happy camper. I use free ram pro to free up ram before i play its a helpful program and that helps to.

Mine is currently xp2400+, 1 gig ram & radeon9700 and it still plays smooth

I ahve been running on a XP3000, 512pc-2100ddr, Geforce FX5500 256MB, and a very old phillips sound card. and up until last beta had no crashes in two months. Now I've just had one, when a freak draw on a fleet battle happened it just died to desktop otherwise just can't stop playing.  

The old rig:

9800 Pro 256MB
1 GB Corsiar PC(3200?)
2.8c P4 OC'd to 3.0
2x 80GB SATA Drives in RAID0
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
XP Pro SP2

That system always ran the game fine (except for a few of the flakey betas) at 1280*960 with 2x AA.

New Rig:
7950 GX2 1GB
Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)
2 GB Corsiar XMS2 DDR2-800 (PC6400)
Same HDD setup, just updated to 3.0GB/s SATA drives
XP Pro SP2
I ripped the Audigy 2 ZS out the other night since Creative drivers still blow. I was having HORRIBLE crashing issues in Oblivion with that damn card which have ALL gone away now. Now I'm on the onboard Realtek ALC883 and I'll be damned, it sounds better!

Haven't yet had a chance to see what GC2 will take, right now I'm running at 1600*1200 with 16x AF and 4x AA (though I'm sure the AA can go higher). I've only had the system a couple of weeks now, so it's hard to really comment on GC2 stability. I've only had one issue and that was a CTD when I hit ctrl+N. Haven't been able to reproduce it and I've had no issues with the 1.3b3x build either.

To the person with the Live! card, well, I'm sorry. I had that card too and those drivers were even worse than the Audigy ones. If you ever encounter any crashing issues start by disabling the card in the hardware page.

Never had any probs...but its all about the RAM....
-Gateway
2X 2.2 GHZ AMD 64 live daul core processors
4.0 GB DRAM (PC3200) daul channel
128 bit Nvida Geforce 6100 with 512 MB of Video ram
320 GB 7200rpm ATA harddrive
Bought this machine for around $900, plus $175 for the extra 2.0GB of ram

Looks like mine is the weakest of the bunch... It was until I hit post, then someone posted a 1.1... lol



CPU: Athlon XP 2600 Barton (133fsbx15) 2.0 ghz
Motherboard: Asus a7n266-vm/aa (4 year old micro-atx motherboard)
video card: MSI ti4600 128mb (How old is the Ti series??? 2001ish? I forget... )
Memory: 1 gig (2x512ddr)
1st hard drive: Western Digital 80 gig (7200rpm/8mb buffer)
not needed: 2nd hard drive: 640gb Raid drive (2 320gb Maxtor drives)

This machine is used as my home server, and is always downloading new TV content.

While it does that I tend to play Galciv2 set to: Gigantic, all opponents- etc- And it does just fine- thou it does slow down in the end game. I'd upgrade it, but I'm just to cheap... So if your machine is struggling- my advice is upgrade the memory

To the OP: What are your system's specs?

I'm running in an Intel 2.8 GHz Hyper-threaded Pentium 4, 512MB DDR RAM, and Nvida FX5200 with 128MB.
I play on gigantic maps with everything abundant, so I could do with more RAM! Before I startup the game I shutdown all unnessary services to save memory.

AMD T-Bird 1.0 GHZ processor,Asus A7A266 motherboard,512mb DDR RAM,ATI Radeon 9550 128 mb vid. card,SoundBlaster Live 16 bit audio card. Running Windows XP Professional.

Basically,a 4 year old computer with the only upgrade being the recent addition of a newer video card(replaces the original GForce 2 MMX 32 mb card).

Everything runs pretty well,but it does "chug" a bit when playing on huge and gigantic maps with maximum A.I. players at some stages into a game,but that's with everything turned "on" of course.

Well thanks to all who have shared their info with me. Talked the wifey poo into letting me upgrade to a good video card (prob a nvidia76/7800 series?)which was a feat within itself since we just bought the computer in July!. Anyhow, still love this game even though it won't let me finish one. Maybe because I'm set to rule the universe,,, lol. Hopefully today's update at SDC will fix most of my issues. Oh, btw, Kryo's hull mod is totally, totally, totally, awesome!!!! Good job man!

Never had any problems. It's a Pentium 2.2 Ghz with an ATI 9800 Pro in it with 512MB of memory.

Hrmph. I think I need to reinstall. I'm running an Alienware 3.4ghz Hyperthreaded Pentium, 1g ram, Nvidia 6800GT video card with 256... and I'm crashing ALL THE TIME. Quite often right after I overwrite a ship design and it tries to go to the upgrade screen, it'll CTD. Othertimes, just random crashes about once an hour or so. Sometimes I get lucky and I get 2 hrs with no crashes.

(Still hasn't stopped me from gigantic gaming sessions tho )