Real glad I held of buying DA.

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By the sound of it I was right to hold of buying DA, I waited because I wanted to make sure they had fixed it since GC2 where I suffered out of memory errors on huge/large maps and finally gave up and shelved the game. But looking here GA has more bugs than Silent hunter 4.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thats fighting talk, But maybe not unjustified.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Looking at the bug reports forum to get a feel for the number of bugs in a game is a flawed methodology, given that a majority of players experiencing bugs will post in here while a negligible percentage of players with perfect experiences will post.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think it's more important to notice the people who can't use the product they paid for than quote the ones who can.

"only X% of our customers paid £Y for nothing, thats fine as Z% got a working product.

I suggest when you pay for your internet and it doesn't work you should consider all of the rest of us online while your phoning customer service especially when they tell you "I'm fine thanks, My internet works great, bye."
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I think it's more important to notice the people who can't use the product they paid for than quote the ones who can.

"only X% of our customers paid £Y for nothing, thats fine as Z% got a working product.

I suggest when you pay for your internet and it doesn't work you should consider all of the rest of us online while your phoning customer service especially when they tell you "I'm fine thanks, My internet works great, bye."


I dunno, I've gotten the out of memory bug a couple times... both times were games on gigantic galaxies that has been going for ~15+ hours straight. Each time I waited for the eventual error, then was able to save it and restart without issue when the game was brought back to focus and finished loading (takes a while)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I played DA plenty in Beta, but not so much after release, as to me, it felt bit beta still. Iam anxeously waiting for the new features of 1.6 (hopefully UI gets better) but I fear there will be more bugs with these features aswell. Anyways not playing GC2 for now over 3 months is taking its toll on me

Oh well, no game is perfect and I really gotta hand it to SD, small team and still putting big companies to shame when it comes to updates. Too bad that with a small team and many feature updates, they sometimes seem overwhelmed with bugs/work
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yer, no game is perfect, but it should run without crashing , this is a necessity not a option. People with 512 meg memory are never experiencing the memory crash but those with 2 gig or more are, I would call this a missive bug, that big it lives in a hanger, but as yet SD can't get the time to fix.
Somebody I quote, said the next GC game should be called Galactic Civ II The bug fest.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
there is a definite memory leak, but I use cachemanXP (mentioned in the forums here for gigantic maps), and that pretty much for me fixxes the game in the interim while I wait for stardock to find the memory leak if they ever do......
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I tried the cachmanXP remedy with GC2, it seemed okay for a while then went back to crashing out of memory, so all it did was give me a small reprieve. In fact I tried every trick in the book in a attempt to get to finish one game which I never did, yes, I stared a new game so many times but never finished one.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
DA has had more bugginess then GC, but it's still one of the most stable and bug-free games ever made.

For this post, you should be forced to play Medieval II, which is a true unstable and unsupported sack of s**t. (and I'm going to heehaw about it to cost them as much money as they cost me)
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
How odd, I've never had any serious problems. I can't imagine playing DL at this point, really. I feel sorry for you.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I tried the cachmanXP remedy with GC2, it seemed okay for a while then went back to crashing out of memory, so all it did was give me a small reprieve.


Sorry to hear this. I personally 'endorse' FreeRAM XP which has a better look and feel to it than cacheman XP, and it it totally free, no trial versions with this one (although they do ask that you 'donate' but that's as far as it goes). I will admit that I still had one or two crashes on larger games towards the end, but FreeRAM seems to hold up much better than cacheman does. Give it a try before you give up. Just because one program doesn't work so well, the other may do the trick.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't think I have the heart to start again only for it to bomb on me after a week of play, all games have bugs I know, but there are bugs you can avoid, bugs you can ignore, bugs that actually add to the game play but then there are bugs that are game killers and this is one of the latter bugs you can't ignore a bug that ends the game.
Ill get myself a copy of that FreeRAM XP, might come in handy.

I have Medieval 2 and the bugs in that are the type you can ignore.