Turn Button Disappears

It might be easier to help you if you tell us what version of the game you are playing, and what you did on the previous turn (the one you last clicked the turn button for).

Version would definitely be key as there was a real bad turn button problem in a version a while back. I think the problem was something to do with AI and invasion screens in TA and the workaround was to keep a game handy right near invasion, attempt an invasion once, then play the other game.

But again, that was a few beta versions ago.

Often hitting the tab key would take you to a ship with unused movement points. once you made any ships move the game would continue.

On the other hand there were other dissapearing turn problems that this would not cure, but it is worth a try.

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In my games the turn button disappears frequently. Every time it's caused by the 'unused movement points' bug. Trivial but annoying...

One workaround solution to this would be to checkmark the 'skip-turns remaining' box in the options - i suppose, as it actually prevent some lapses related to any "lost" ship somewhere. I also found that the "skip" button may often hump off for a number of seconds where i feel the interface might had just crashed on me, not so. Some activity (specially in bigger maps & late turns) can get overwhelming enough to cause terrible delays for the TURN button activation - not to say, the game itself is buggy but rather that the specific situation is an indirect memory_cpu_cycle clug for a number of reasons; PCs config included.

When i bought the game legally - and obtained the possibility to update the game - suddenly i never had the disappearing Turn-Button prob again...

Could very well be a problem with your videocard drivers. Do you have an nVidia card and are you using Vista? If so, check your videocard drivers. With the standard nVidia Vista drivers the turnbutton disappears and the game gets stuck.

Check out this thread it's all there: https://forums.galciv2.com/142721

I'll have to check the version when I get home. It should be the most recent as I know I hit check for updates before playing the game.

I have an nvidia card but I still run xp. I can find out when I get home exactly what card it is.

From what you all are saying, I'm guessing it's ships with unused movement points. I have a few fleets sitting around some yor planets that I've been unsuccessfully trying to take as their influence has gotten too close. I'll try the skip turns remaining box. I really want those ships sitting there until I need them, even if they have movement left.

So the tab button is taking me to ships that are on auto pilot.
The skip turns remaining box or whatever it's called is checked.
Where can I find what version I'm running? Not that it matters, I checked again, and there are no updates available, so I assume I have the latest version.

Any other ideas?

Please see this thread to make sure you are checking for updates properly.

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I have the game legally, but I've seen it happen too. I haven't seen it in a while, so maybe the updates fixed it. We'll see.