Impulse is not recognizing that TOA is installed

It is possible you may have to reinstall Twilight. I'll check into that. The expansion pack setup from SDC was a total hack (as in, Stardock Central literally had the two GalCiv expansion packs supported through binary changes in SDC itself). 

I had this issue, I was able to fix by hacking the registry (I have XP, so I dont know how this will work with other OS's). The issue is with SDC and what it writes to the registry, not Impulse actually.

If you are comfortable with regediting then you can do the following:

goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2\Twilight\

add a New String Value called Path (do this by right clicking on Twilight folder in regedit), right click on the Path string you just created, and type in the path to your Twilight installation location (where ever your TALaunch.exe file is located).

edit the Exe string (by double clicking on it) and remove the "Twilight\" part from the "Twilight\TALaunch.exe"

To see how this should look, take a peek at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar

I hope I explained this well enough. If I did a poor job, you may be best to uninstall TA from SDC and reinstall in Impulse.

Cheers,

james

Big problem.

So I downloaded Impulse and redownoaded TOA. Upgraded to 1.92a. Uninstalled SDC.


And my machine is not utilizing its second core at all (as was the case from having SDC installed and stuff)
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Use max cpu is checked as always, (preferences were saved). However now when im playing TOA, only 1 core is being utilized. (Hurray for G15lcdmiscellany!)

Anyways I'm not sure what has caused this at all. Is this some weird side effect from impulse not being multithreaded for dual core machines?

xNaquada is now sad.

Here's a update. Dark Avatar is behaving correctly.
I went through and re registered my old GC2 and GC2DA serials as it prompted me to... (why?) So i used the new impulse serial.

Upon returning to the TOA game now, the 2nd core works.

I have no idea what could have caused this. Something is definitely fishy with TOA. Apparently launching Dark Avatar before TOA did it,
(as I re-registered TOA after it worked...)

So its either...

A) Dark Avatar must be launched once before TOA.
Somehow the activation mechanism for TOA checks DA (???)
C) I have no idea.


Something is buggy somewhere. I'll keep you posted.

Oh yes and TOA cannot ALT-TAB without crashing. This is both verisons 1.91 and 1.92a. Please fix this....

Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with Impulse.

We are looking into the ToTA not showing installed issue.  We will have a fix shortly.  Please do not reinstall/uninstall ToTA.

What a magilla.

Too late here too, already reinstalled TotA.

Impulse is not wanting to update for me- again.

I'm really starting to hate Impulse for this reason. It's got problems with the registry I believe.

Just to be perfectly clear on the issue: Will 1.95 *only* be available on Impulse? No SDC? If this is the case, then puh-leez give us a .zip. I had a bad experience with the beta; it never worked as it should, and eventually locked my computer up solid. I removed it, and had to manually repair the registry. I'm NOT going through that again.

Stardock, I am one of your biggest fans, and I have every confidence that Impulse will be all that you say it can be. Unfortunately, I don't believe that at this point (and the previous posts confirm) it's quite ready for prime-time.

So Impulse, from my impression so far from using it, just seems to be a more unstable version of SDC with a nasty background, in an attempt to create a Steam-like service with games twice the price of Steam.

I'm installing TOTA when it said it wasn't. Figure I'll see what happens.

I agree about the zip or something. Impulse is nasty so far. (On my laptop it keeps getting stuck trying to update itself and I can't do anything.)

One thing I'd like to know is how to remove the toolbar Impulse places at the bottom of my screen (and pops up whenever my cursor wanders down there). The program informed me of this after installation, never offered me the option not to install it, and, at first glance, I see no way to remove it. I don't plan on using Impulse very often (only to update GalCiv and Sins) and the icon on my desktop is more than sufficient. I find this most annoying both on principle (no option or readily apparent means of removal) and substance (PITA to have the tool bar pop up accidently on a semi-regular basis).