Atlan

Hi I've had GalCiv 2 for years. I bought GalCiv2: Ultimate edition a few years ago, and installed it on my current laptop over a year ago. It always worked. After a 3 month break, I tried to play it again. However, the game crashes everytime I try to start a new game. I navigate through the setup, selecting map options, my race/abilities, my enimies, and then I start the game. Midway through the loading screen, the game crashes. Every single time. I haven&#

Nice, Gauntlet. As a big-time geek, I've read most of the Halo books, as well as memorised all the games. There is definatly enough material on the covenant side to create a race, and on the UNSC side as well- but you would probably have to make do with one or two ships per size- Check the following two pages: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/D77H-TCI_Pelican http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Covenant_Destroyer You could reasonably get perhaps 5 races out of this- The Covenant (The

Ok. Downloaded the drivers Kyro recomended. Wont install. It claims that I dont have Vista 32 bit installed. Which is odd, as I DO have Vista 32 bit installed. Anyone know what the heck is going wrong?

Get the latest video card drivers from Nvidia. You can not count on Windows Update for this. You need to go to Nvidia.com for the latest video drivers. Driver Version: 7.15.0010.9815 - They are outdated, and buggy with GalCiv. But nivida dosent seem to have any drivers for a Geforce Go 6150. I tried the drivers for the Geforce 6000 range, and it said "The NVIDA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

I have the Gold Edition. When I play DA, the game playes normally at first. Then, I get a certain problem. After a while, the game freezes. I click 'turn', and the 'turn' button dissapears. The game goes still- the music still playes, the mouse still moves. But I cant click anything, and nothing happens. I waited half an hour, and it didnt resume. All that changed was the planet I happened to be looking at, where the graphics moved as if I was playing the game normally. Debug:

Galciv2 is in it's default instalation folder, and i'm trying to run the patch from my documents. Or am I supost to paste it into the Galacric civilations folder?

Ok, tried that. Now I get a NEW error message: "This application has failed to start because binkw32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem"

Its not running for me. I get an error message saying "This application has failed to start because d3dx9_27.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem" Note: I am running Vista.

Space Currents: Due to unusual star emisions, several 'currents' in space appear. All ships traveling along the current get a huge speed bonous for as long as they are in the current. Old weapons: Inspired by "Beserker", robotic ships from a distant galaxy have arived in ours. They seek to eliminate all life, atacking ships indriscimintlay. If they find an un-defended planet (or destroy a planets defenders) they can sterilize it, destroying all people on it, all improvements, an

Kyro- I tried doing what you said, but it still crashes every time I try to pass the galaxy creation screen. Any other ideas?

Well, I cant speak for the others, but I sure havent created a custom race. Hell, this is freshly installed, with nothing at all done.

And I have the same problem. I tried uninstalling, and reinstalling, and not patching. It worked then. So I patched it, and also had my game exit instantly after I passed the Galaxy Creation Screen. Loading an old game caused it to exit instantly as well. Debug: Debug Message: Version v1.6 Dark Avatar last updated on: Wed Jun 6 08:51:50 2007 Debug Message: Checking DX Version. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 6/10/2007,

I never thought that I would by an expansion for this game, as it was so good already. But then I did (it was half price at a local store) and I havent regretted it. Ideas for another expansion? As a comprimise to the arguement about implimenting borders, what about this: A new kind of starbase, or at least a new modual. This would allow you to link with another starbase within a certain distance, and create a wall between them. The only way to get through the wall wo

I see China and India fighting wars. Posibily against each other, most likley against the rest of the world. That probably will be preceded by a cold war. The polar ice caps will continue to melt, and America will continue to ignore it. What few contries still have the queen of England on their coin will slowly drop what sembelence of a Monarchy they have. McDonalds will become bigger and bigger.

Two biggies for me were Perry Rhodan and World War: In the Ballance. Perry Rhodan is a german space opra, over 2000 books long. Ive got the 110 that were translated into english. Not an espicially chlangening read, but fun. World War: In the Ballance is the first of a four book series that, in my oppionion, is as good at being a book as GalCiv2 is at being a computer game- kick ass, and unappreaciated. It's set in the middle of WW2. The Britian, America, Germany, Rusi

Hi I recently reformatted my computer, installing Vista, and as a treat to myself I bought Glactic Civilizations 2: Gold edition (GE), where prevoiusly I only had Dread Lords. I installed GE, and entered my serial number. But when I tried to update Dark Avatar, I ran into a snag. It would let me update DL, but not DA. Whenever I clicked on 'Update', it linked me to the purchase page. It still refuses to let me update DA no matter what I do. Does anyone know what's going on here?

I like to go with names of mele weapons for the tiny, small, and medium ships- Katana, Broadsword, Arrow, Trident, ect. For the larger ships I tend to steal from mythology or Final Fantasy- Zeus, Posiden, Shiva, Bahamut. After all, I can always check the stats of a ship if nessary. But if i'm browsing through them then all I need is a name I relate to a certain amount of power- I read Arrow, I think "fast, but not all that strong."

Ok. First I have to get this said- Galactic Civilations 2 is my favourite stratergy game ever. No more getting rushed by the AI just because it can mutlti-task better than me. I remember when I first started playing. How suprised I was by the graphics. Not that they were bad, far from it. I was suprised how good they were. GalCiv2 isnt like Age of Mythology, or Doom 3. They take a wornout genre of gaming, slap some new ideas and pretty graphics on it, and call it revolutanary.

Agreed. It would make it easer to use. Lord knows the number of times i've lost a transport to the Alterians when I misjudge squares.

Depends on how you mean it. When you say anomolies and ship stuff, what does that entail? But yeah, i'd like to see more text and events. Seeing the same thing over and over again gets boring.