and I have stardock central subscription since the days of galactic civilization 1 which is definitely up to date? Subscriptions last for a year (or was it 18 months?). After that you need to resubscribe. If you only bought and subscribed with the original CG1 then you will be able to download updates to CG1
BigrobG, as peace phoenix said, that sounds like an old video driver problem. You need to download the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com. When you post in future you should cut and paste the debug.err file from the galciv2 directory. This not only contains all the system specs but details of what the game was doing at the time. Downloading and running smart exception from Stardock Central also creates a second file (a .CRA file in the smartexception directory
Whenever you get a crash you should email the debug.err from your Galciv folder and the .CRA file from the Smart Exception folder (download it from StarDock Central) to [email protected] along with any information about what you were doing at the time. Crashes that you can repeat or clearly identify what caused it are especially useful. Paul.
Thanks for the update Brad! That change to the SDC sounds like a real good idea! Paul.
Good screen Brad! Hapyp birthday Cari. Hope yourself and your sister are not too hung over this morning!!!! Thank God you have a weekend to recover! Paul.
I also had a fluke win under the same conditions. I colonised a class 18 planet in the drengin home world and within 10 turns I had won. Probably a good thing that the latest beta has turned this off for the moment Paul.
Read the release notes. They comment that if the turn button vanishes you may need to play around with the viewing window a bit. Shouldn't have had to reboot! Paul.
Yes. It's shaping up to have a lot more potential than CG1 and that was good fun. Still a huge amount of work to do, especially when the game balancing and fun aspects kick in, but all the elements are there and the potential for a great game is already shining through. What we can already see is that visually the new game will be beautiful, though admittedly I'll probably end up playing the entire game in tactical mode! Might be an idea to add an o
- could someone update the SDC to show the date of the latest GC2 beta file and not the date GC2 first appeared. Paul.
- playing as other races now works! Nice to play with their ship designs! Paul.
New beta today (1st April) is much more stable than last beta. Here are my general comments, - minimap is still not being updated unti lyou click on it - warning icons on left of screen don't die out. This causes problems with them overflowing when there are too many which then causes no icons to appear at all (or maybe they appear off the screen?). I suggest that then should shrink and fade away in later turns. There also needs to be a quick and
Here are my latest comments on the research screen on the latest beta (1st April). - First up the research screen now updates. - The sliders at the bottom of the research window don't work if you click on them. They move, but the screen does not move. You have to hold them to move the window. - The required tech box shows the last tech researched not any tech required for the tech you are looking at - It is still not clea
Luke, there is a more up to date driver for that video card. You should try downloading it from www.nvidia.com and see if that changes anything. Paul.
You need to update your NVidia graphics driver. You're using a very old version! Paul.
Double check you have the latest Nvidia drivers. They certainly crash without the latest version. Paul.
Rabits, for instance The current population growth in the beta is pretty much rabbit levels! I'm sure this will all be tweaked as planned in later betas though, Paul.
Gherado, Cari has posted on this. The ship is in orbit but the orbit icons are not appearing. Just click each empty orbit bos and then click launch! It's probably int he top right one. Paul.
An initial glance shows your graphics driver date as 2002!!!! Update to the latest graphics driver from ATI (just go to their website and look for download drivers) any try again, Paul.
4.A monthly tribute This is so open to abuse though and is the very thing that would make a puppet rebel. It's such an antiquated concepts as well. Trade is the key. I'd rather see trade remain than a monthly tribute. Perhaps a puppet state can only trade with the ruling empire and all trade routes are there
Further comments: - the minimap does not update with autopilot lines turned on. The original line is drawn but then never updates as your ships move turn after turn. - If you shift all your production away from military, the time remaining to build something on the main screen becomes a huge number or -1 weeks. This needs to be changed to 'no resources' or 'on hold'. - The info icons that drop on the left of the screen are good but
This screen is looking good. Couple of further changes required though. I'd add - The bonus tiles (ones with small icons) need to be described as more than just 'bonus: 7%'. The type of bonus needs to be added. I assume some of these provide bonus to research, some to food, some to industry, etc. Therefore you easily need to know what type of building to build - Food: The amount of food produced by the planet is in strange quantities. It's not
I'd also say I love the solo voice singing. Reminds me of other excelent atmosphere music like Fantasy General and HOMM2. Good job. Hope there will be lots more of it over the coming months, Paul.
Easy, Add a colony pod looking structural component so that 5 of those pods on the starting colony ship are just 'bling' This should be done for all components so that users can create a cool looking ship with 'bling' matching real components. This allows medium sized colony ships, but put a population limit per pod so that these produce small colonies which take years to develop. Once you develop larger hulls you can make your 6 pod c
Some stars when clicked on list the wrong number of planets and habitable planets - this is probably because the rest of the planets are still outside your explored zone. once you reveal the whole system then all the planets are correctly listed. Paul.
Here's my initial feedback on the ship design screens. First the spaceport. I like this screen a lot. Nice and easy to use. It could do with the ability to shift to the next planet though and obviously for the orbital slots to work. Second the Shipyard. This screen is fairly redundant. There are only 4 new buttons and these could easily be placed on teh spaceport screen at the bottom of the available ship type window. This would allow you to remove
