Display problems in the game

Diplomatic screen, Ship building screen, Ethical events

I have the latest update 2.03.   Here are some of the bugs that I've noticed.

-Diplomatic relations: The screen displays sometimes goes buggy so that when you scroll down available technologies, what was previously printed before the scroll down isn't erased and you get a blurred mix of the previous line and current line. This sometimes happens when I move the mouse cursor to the upper left around where the influence/bc is displayed. The screen also gets buggy when speaking to minor races we haven't spoken to yet. (This is for the diplomatic menu that you get by clicking the foreign stats option).   Clicking on planets and using the "speak to" is often better but will still bug.   Another annoyance is that if I do Escape and try to speak to the diplomats again because the screen bugged on me. It will often say that the ambassador is too busy to speak to me. In the middle of a diplomatic negociation, the previous screen for foreign stats will sometimes appear blurring everything. I don't know what triggers it.

- Ethical events when colonizing a planet.   The screen bugs out also. The clicking the choice doesn't seem to do anything. I have to press esc. To get back to the planet.

- Planet invasion: If the game is launched from GalCiv2.exe the display works fine. When launched from GC2Launch.exe the display is buggy. When you click on a description for example to see what "Tidal Disruptiontion" does. Then click on "Information Warfare" too see what it does, the display of the description for "Tidal Disruption" isn't erased first so you get a blurred combo of the description for "Tidal Disruption" and "Information Warfare".

-On a planet, when clicking on "Build Ship" the list of available ships to build becomes a black rectangle and nothing is drawn. You have to click in the black rectangle for the list of ships to appear.

Here is my debug.err file:

Debug Message: Version v2.03 Twilight of the Arnor last updated on: Thu Jul 23 11:47:38 2009
Debug Message: Checking DX Version.
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 7/15/2010, 22:13:51
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: LINDYHOPPER
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Compaq 6730b (KR972UT#ABA)
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs)
Physical Memory: 1978MB RAM
Page File: 1441MB used, 2427MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip Type: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DAC Type: Internal
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2A42&SUBSYS_30DD103C&REV_07
Display Memory: 1024.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: igxprd32.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.4953
Driver Date: 5/21/2008 08:48:46
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: SoundMAX HD Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_194A&SUBSYS_103C30E6&REV_1004
Manufacturer ID: 65535
Product ID: 65535
Driver Name: ADIHdAud.sys
Provider: AnalogDevices
Driver Version: 5.10.0001.5820
Driver Date: 4/11/2008 12:19:42
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0

Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
Debug Message: Entering WinMain
Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Could not query reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2UL value named Language
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: Using hardware vertex processing
Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONE
Debug Message: Attempting to create D3DDevice at resolution 1280 x 1024, Windowed: 1, Multisample: 0
Debug Message: Game Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Debug Message: Running in windowed mode.
Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 0
Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: Border size reported as 6 by 32
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now windowed.
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: GalCiv2 is activated.
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****

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I recently tried 15 times to have a diplomatic dialogue with the Terran Alliance (I'm playing Arcean right now). Each time whether I'm accessing the menu via the foreign stats or by slicking on a planet, the diplomatic screen bugs out on me.

Could we have a redraw screen function ? Honestly, I'd take a ASCII diplomatic screen that I can read over a graphical one that is unuseable.

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Your video drivers are very old, and you should be playing the game at your native desktop resolution of 1680 x 1050.

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To Moosetek13: Which drivers are old and how do I update them ? I've got the auto-update setup in Windows so i would expect things to be up to date on my computer. Also, this game is from 2003 so even if my drivers are old now, I would expect them to have been new when Galactic Civ II originally came out.

I'm playing the game on my laptop and it is less than a year old.

When in Colony manager: I'm instructing colonies currently building one kind of ship to build another. If I click twice on the new type of ship to build (instead of clicking only once ) I get an un-handled exception error and the game crashes.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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Also, this game is from 2003 so even if my drivers are old now, I would expect them to have been new when Galactic Civ II originally came out.

GC2 was initially released in 2006 and TA was released in 2008.

Windows update is an extremely unreliable source for video drivers, especially on Windows XP; your best bet is to go directly to Intel's site and get the latest video drivers from them. Even if your drivers are newer than TA itself, they're from earlier in the life of the GMA4000 series and Intel's drivers tend to take quite a while to mature.

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I have a problem with the graphics. After the planet screen it goes to the space screen but the screen still has a bit of the planet screen on it. When I move the screen around, the planets, ships, etc leave a trail of their own graphic, so a string of planets or a string of ships.

Anyone any ideas? I have the latest Direct X and ATI Drivers, etc

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