I just bought Galciv2 and added the 1.4 update before running it for the 1st time.

I have a 1680x1050 widescreen LCD monitor. The default resolution the software caused the dispaly to start at the halfway point on my monitor and thus the far right 1/4 of the dispaly was beyond the edge of the monitor and couldn't be seen.
As I could barely see the edge of the buttons of the opening menu (but couldn't see the text to the right of them) I randomly clicked buttons until I found the configuration menu. And of course the video tab was the one I couldn't see at all but I eventually was able to blindly click on it to bring up the video options. So in the end I was able to change the resolution to one that matched my monitor and happily play the game. However, the default display behavior of the software should be changed. I have never had this problem with other games using a full screen mode by other publishers such as Age of Empires III. They all managed to display properly on my monitor before I customized the display options.