Issue with Dark Avatar

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Alright, here's my problem. Dark Avatar is laggy as hell for me, and I don't know why. The normal game runs fine, even when I have all this stuff going on. But when I'm playing Dark Avatar and the screen gets filled with a lot of things (ships, planets, etc...) the game is unplayable. The same occurs when it comes to ship battles, either in the Combat Viewer, or when they duke it out on the strategy screen. The lag occurs normally when the explosions go off, and it just starts jerking around. This wouldn't be much of a problem for me, except I realized that the fights in Dark Avatar are a hell of a lot cooler than the original... and suffice to say, I want to play the game I bought. And I've turned down all the graphic options so it's not that, my PC has enough to handle this thing. If anyone might know what the issue is, I'd appreciate some help, thanks.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem. The location you'll find the debug.err in varies depending on your game version:

Dread Lords, all versions:
C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2

Dark Avatar 1.5-1.6 (non-Vista):
C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar

Dark Avatar 1.6+(Windows Vista), 1.7+(non-Vista):
My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug will be erased and recreated for the new session.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Not to sound like an a**, but it sounds like one of two things.... bad drivers (on your vid cards part)... or a Windows issue.

If your comp ran the original just fine, I don't see why you'd have any trouble with the new one...

It's gotta be a driver issue with your vid card I would imagine.... hope you get if figured out.


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