I just recently found out about the Stardock Central tool, I upgraded to 1.3b2 and things look normal now. Thanks for all the help.
MichaelBest
Yeah it's a giant star, I put 1.2 on, but I didn't try the beta 1.3b1 -Mike
Too bad that integrated graphics controller won't work. The problem is mostly visual, why try to explain it, when a picture is much more succinct.
Game Image: Video Driver details: All the dxdiag tests pass. If you can't see the images, I put them in my Picasa web folder, it doesn't like linking. http://picasaweb.google.com/michael.best/GalCiv
It may be something to do with how I set my sliders to recover from the debt, I will look into this and report back.
I know all of the things that you posted after it occured. The economy was broken, so I had to go and change my economy to maximize my income to get back to positive BCs. However, once I reached positive BCs, the planetary economies on every one of my worlds except my home world was busted. Only 1 shield available, unable to build anything, etc.
During an invasion I chose Information War which I didn't have the money to pay for, but that's okay the game let me spend it anyways, and put me -1000BC into the hole. Several turns later of trying to rescue my economy, my colonies are all stuck on "NEVER" as being the completion date of all their projects and all we have is 1 shield on the planets.