the only problem I have now, and this is only the first instance... in the stats screen for the other races, if i click on 'Total Routes' i get a ctd. I'm currently using 1.05.071 patch.

~SDC~

1.05.71 -- When you build a colony ship (auto-launch off) and immediately use it to colonize a planet in the same system (immediate == when planet screen pops up to tell you it's done with the ship; no launch, no first hitting next/done), and then hit 'destroy colony' when the new colony pops up because its build queue is empty, CTD follows before it's done with all the planet-screen popups.

LeegleechN: I know what you mean anyway. You can't stop in that sector and move, but we allow autopilot through it because (a) it would suck if you got stuck in out of range space and (b) because we can justify it by saying that the crew can go into cryogenic sleep while the ship is on autopilot.

Parable: don't click on that button. That's supposed to be in the expansion pack, but it slipped through without being disabled, so it's crashing becase you don't have the screen it's supposed to unhide.

 

1.0571

Music still disappears when playing for long sessions. Has been so for as long as I can remember. The SFX seem to work, though. Restarinting Galciv works.

Version 1.05.71, Windowed mode

Due to an increasing defect in my monitor, I'm losing the top 10 - 15% of my screen (the lines there are going all screwy, like a really bad vertical adjust, and any graphic in that area gets split into multiple lines), so I tried to play GalCiv in windowed mode. Starts up ok, but CTDs when i click on the "Close" button on the first message window (before you even get to set any techs).

Stardock SmartException Logging Information
-------------------------------------------

OS Version : Windows 2000
Video Card : RADEON 7000 SERIES
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 0052E071 01:0012D071 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:0012F284
EBX:7FFDF000
ECX:00000000
EDX:0068C6D0
ESI:00000000
EDI:0065002E
CS:EIP:001B:0052E071
SS:ESP:0023:0012F1F0 EBP:0012F274
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010206


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
0052E071 0012F274 0001:0012D071 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0055CCC6 0012F29C 0001:0015BCC6 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054D9BF 0012F4A8 0001:0014C9BF C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054DAF8 0012F6B8 0001:0014CAF8 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054DAF8 0012F8C8 0001:0014CAF8 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054DAF8 0012FAD8 0001:0014CAF8 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054DAF8 0012FCE8 0001:0014CAF8 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0054DAF8 0012FEF8 0001:0014CAF8 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
0050D789 0012FF0C 0001:0010C789 C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
005700CE 0012FF34 0001:0016F0CE C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
005AA94A 0012FFC0 0001:001A994A C:\Program Files\Strategy First\Galactic Civilizations\galcivw.exe
77EA847C 0012FFF0 0001:0002747C G:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll


~SDC~

Hi! Lately I've had CTD are destroying evacuated colonies en-mass. I like exploring icky planets . . .

If I scrap my Economic Capital, I cannot rebuild it on ANY world, even the same world.

I am also having occassional Crash-To-Desktop bugs.. so far I've found no pattern (one did involve an espionage message, though, and kept effecting me even if I loaded from saved game) - I'll post again if I discover a pattern to them.

~SDC~

1.05.71 has an annoying bug in the governor build queue.

When you have enough items (16?), you cannot shuffle build order reliably anymore. List corruption seems to start at the bottom and creeps up.. Ie. beginning of the list can be manipulated, end of the list, no go.

List stays broken until you clear it and repopulate it. I have to do this in midgame and kick out the basic items which every colony has already anyhow.

~SDC~

I think that I may have fixed the problem where the music will just stop, if it stops after you finish researching something.  We'll see after the next update.

That's an old exe. To run GC in windowed version now, open up your icon for GalCiv.exe and after the target put a w.  So if your target is

"C:\program files\strategy first\gal civ\galciv.exe"

it will now be

"C:\program files\strategy first\gal civ\galciv.exe" w

Icefoxen: if you send me the save game with the espionage message crash, it would help me find the bug.  I'll need both the .sav file and the corresponding folder. 

I'll look into the other things.

[email protected]

 

Don't know if anyone mentioned it - I clicked on total routes in the foreign policy screen and the game crashed.

I am running 1.05. My playlist does not loop back to the start any more. Also when I try to start it over the game closes.

1. If a planet is about to be swayed to another civ and the scull and crossbones icon appears, it never disapppears even after you correct the problem and have 30000 influence to the AI's 600.
2.If you pick a research bonus when you colonize a planet it does not appear when you look at details.
3. If you destroy a colony after an event changes the planet for better or worse, then after you hit end turn you will crash to desktop.

~SDC~

Espionage CTD:

When my espionage-level reaches Medium then there appears a button "Show Traderoutes" or sth. like this on the Foreign/Status-Screen.

Klicking it did not result in seeing their Traderoutes but in beeing kicked to to my desktop.

The bug is just as recreateable as the old Add to Governor list bug... But since espionage is not used as often as the governors I did not notice it before.


Not only if I do this, also if the AI's do this... The Torians conquered one of my planets with Massdrivers and that way made it inhabitable. I guess they cancelled the colony and that caused a CTD somehow...
[Message Edited]

Altarian AI has a definite bug. In my game they amassed 11 capital ships into out-of-way location while leaving their homeworlds wide open for invasion. I got a savegame if someone wants to take a look at it..

~SDC~

1.05.071 Draginol Event. Masochistic. Grrr - wrecked the game!
When event occured, Draginol started with 144,509 billion credits. They bought "Galactic Understanding" from me for 144,509 x 50 !!!! I presume they would have passed this money to an AI if I hadn;t gotten in first.

(a) They shouldn't pay so much for a dumb tech - especially since the sum is guaranteed to wreck their economy permanently.
(b) They were at war with me at the time - shouldn't trade while at war unless peace part of it. (This is the only exception I know about).

If an AI does an invasion with zero troops, the game will just hang after you hit the spacebar. Happened in my game just now (and here I was kicking the Altarians in the teeth too)

There seem to be a problem with the Drengin Federalist reelection. I get constant CTD if the Drengin choose the Federalist party (which they seem to do constantly). I've now got two save games with the following debug file:

Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaWhite11 VerdanaWhite12B VerdanaYellow11 VerdanaLtBlue11 VerdanaGreen11
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaRed11 VerdanaRed12 VerdanaYellow12 VerdanaOrange12 VerdanaLtBlue12
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaDkBlue12 VerdanaLtBlue12B Verdana00Race11 Verdana01Race11 Verdana02Race11
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana03Race11 Verdana04Race11 Verdana05Race11 Verdana00Race12B Verdana01Race12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana02Race12B Verdana03Race12B Verdana04Race12B Verdana05Race12B VerdanaOrange12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: font2 font1 Comic10 Comic12 Comic12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic14 Comic14B Comic16 Comic16B Comic18
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic18B Celtic14 Celtic12 Celtic10 Basker14
Debug Message: Added fonts: Basker16 BabylonBlue11B BabylonBlue11 BabylonBlue10B ArialGreenB10
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellowB12 ArialLtBlueB12 ArialDkBlueB12 ArialGreenB12 ArialRedB12
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialWhite12B ArialWhite14 ArialWhite16 ArialOrange12B ArialLtBlue12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialLtBlue14 ArialGreen14 ArialRed14 ArialYellow14 ArialGreen16
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellow16 Arial02Race16 Arial13B Arial16B2 Arial10
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial12 Arial12B Arial14 Arial14B Arial16
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial16B Arial18 Arial18B GaraWGold11B GaraBW14B
Debug Message: Added fonts: GaraW11B
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: Game Initialization completed.
Debug Message: Creating cutscene window.
Debug Message: Creating soundtrack handler.
Debug Message: Creating movie handler.
Debug Message: Initialize Game Options.
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: MWinEditFields::Create - Unable to find sprite sizing graphic for NameInputBG
Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: Sorting save game list by time.
Debug Message: Scanning sprites.
Debug Message: Scanning Models.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\source\Model2d.cpp at line 2400.
Debug Message: Animation Small has 17 frames of animation, which does not divide evenly into 32 facings.
Debug Message: Scanning bitmaps.
Debug Message: Initializing Galaxy.
Debug Message: Begin creating other screens.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: DataMan
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MEMMAN.CPP at line 581.
Debug Message: MWinEditFields::Create - Unable to find sprite sizing graphic for EconomyTitle
Debug Message: MWinEditFields::Create - Unable to find sprite sizing graphic for MilitaryTitle
Debug Message: Loading game.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: AIAltarian: Set Colony Social
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
ASSERT ERROR in file G:\PROJECTS\pear\SOURCE\MWIN.CPP at line 397.
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Total Ships: 44 & 0 are dead
Debug Message: Election
Debug Message: Drengin Empire senate and their party in control is 0
Debug Message: Federalists running for re-election...

I spent some cash to unravel the mysteries of my "friends" the Torians and was surprised to find a button on the foreign polity screen I hadn't seen before. At the Stats page at the foot of the Abilities list I found the button "Total Routes:". ??? Where's that for? What does it do? Or better, what should it do? Because when I press it I return to my desktop. Game gone! A bug? Tell me where is it for???

I saved the savegame if you're interested. Oh before I forget, I'm playing version 1.05.071

~SDC~

Since I like to hmmm..play with the Data files, I created another political party by copying the exact form of the Technologists and altering the research to 30% and not the sensor range. To my surprise when I started a new game with that political party ..every other major civ had the same +30% research ... should it work like this??? :notsure:

The 'Total Route' button isn't a bug or a glitch.... I talked to Cari about this cause i did the same thing. Cari said that the 'Total Route' button was not meant to be included in the current GalCiv and that it was supposed to be included in the expansion. On accident the button slipped through and if you click on it a CTD is caused because the screen it is supposed to link to does not exist in the game. So in essence... the button should not exist and should be treated as if it is not there.

~SDC~

not sure if this is a bug or not. but you can declare war on a power major or minor make peace and get some extra stuff in the process then give another power you declaring war against the one you just made peace with. Then you can make peace again and get more stuff. You can only give declaring war once to each power but with 4 majors and 3 minors you can gain a lot of stuff from another major power. When I did it I gained 22 planets which was all they had.

~SDC~

Hello, This is probably not a bug, but I was invading the Caratoids (sp?) and I couldn't land troops? The Ship just went zap and exploded (superior tech? Omega defence system?).

Anyway, I thought this was a bit strange because then I get the invassion screen saying I'm sending in 0 million troops vs whatever? One Combat Troop Carrier got to the surface (out of the 10 I sent) . . .

The Yor seemed to have no problem landing troopes during our combined ashault and their tech was super primitive?

:notsure:

Summary: Trade Goods are lost when traded for

Preconditions
Have a minor civilization that has trade goods
You must have technology the minor civilization does not
And the technology must be valuable enough for the minor civilization to trade for
Go to Foreign Relations screen, and select minor tab

Steps:
1. Speak to the Minor civilization
2. Add trade Good for what they should give
3. On your side, select a technology and add
NOTE: Trade text should be green to accept, if not offer another technology. Repeat until text is green.
4. Click Accept
5. Click Leave
6. Take a Turn
7. Click Foreign Relations
8. Select a Major power and click Speak to
9. Look at Trade goods on your side

Expected Results:
The trade good you previously traded for should be available from your trading goods list.

Actual Results
The trade good is not available. If you go back and look at the minor civilization, the trade good is no longer available.

I am not sure if the advantages of having the trade good were added to my civilization or not. But the trade good is no longer available and seems to be lost from the game.

Summary: Trade Goods are lost when traded for

Preconditions
Have a minor civilization that has trade goods
You must have technology the minor civilization does not
And the technology must be valuable enough for the minor civilization to trade for
Go to Foreign Relations screen, and select minor tab

Steps:
1. Speak to the Minor civilization
2. Add trade Good for what they should give
3. On your side, select a technology and add
NOTE: Trade text should be green to accept, if not offer another technology. Repeat until text is green.
4. Click Accept
5. Click Leave
6. Take a Turn
7. Click Foreign Relations
8. Select a Major power and click Speak to
9. Look at Trade goods on your side

Expected Results:
The trade good you previously traded for should be available from your trading goods list.

Actual Results
The trade good is not available. If you go back and look at the minor civilization, the trade good is no longer available.

I am not sure if the advantages of having the trade good were added to my civilization or not. But the trade good is no longer available and seems to be lost from the game.

sjlb:

Unique trade goods are functioning correctly it's your assumption that's flawed.

The race that develops the trade good is the only race that is able to license it to another race. If you trade another race for say...Diplomatic Translators your race gets the bonus to your diplomatic ability that the developing race also gets but you do not get the ability to resell the trade good.