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A personal early game favourite of mine. I like to focus on building up my colonies and economy early in a game and delay warship research and production (aka skip building tiny fighters with 1 attack). Of course all the other civs will start to bully you before long because they have 5 puny useless fighters and you don't. Worse even still if you have an aggressive neighbour that's starting to go hostile. If you've got a civ sitting at cool or worse then buy some or all of his warships. This

Thanks for the responses all. In order of the questions: A) I don't overclock anything, I prefer stability over speed just for the sake of longevity B) Just tried with hardware mouse cursor on (already had AA off and changing throttling setting). Game ran fine for about an hour then another lock. C) I've tried altering some BIOS settings like AGP aperture size and fast writes to no avail. But just to clear it up I don't seem to be

I actually have 3 fans set up in the case already for proper airlflow, the cool air runs past the radeon and cpu and gets sucked out by the final fan. The airflow around the cooler on the video card reads about 76F/24.5C normally, shouldn't be heat. Or dust, air cleaned it recently.

Quick reply, thanks. Unfortunately I've tried that in both the game and the video driver, no luck

Ok I've been reading the forums and trying some tips for a few weeks now to no luck, so I'm posting this hoping for some help. The game hard locks my system every session. It might take 30 min, it may take 5, but it always happens. Never a CTD either, it's a forced restart due to what appears to be the video driver. A few times the ATI driver auto-recover will kick in and restore the game and windows to normal but it's rare, normally the monitor loses