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Alternate settings for advanced hardware? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

When I started my first game on the largest galaxy type, I noticed that the delay was already that of some of my heavily populated games, so I started poking around. First, I see that the game keeps my processor (AMD 1600+ on an nForce2 board) pegged at near 100% even after sitting in steady state for a long time. I turned off music and sound effects which did cut the disk access to near zero. I see that the game has a memory footprint of about 152MB. I have 1GB at the moment and it'

Reply to Expectations of difficulty in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Thanks much Ash. I should have been looking for such a forum. :-) I did find a quote from Frog on another thread: "As many of the higher ranked players can tell you, it is not terribly difficult to out expand the AI and control more of the galactic resources than the AI even at higher levels. It's a matter of knowing how to use the leases and trading for money." I figured after restarting a copule times that I might have to mortgage the future to fast buy the extra 2-4 colony

Expectations of difficulty in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Greetings all, I'm a bit concerned about my first total disasters tonight. I've played about 7-8 games so far. All previous games have been Fool and Beginner with various numbers of AIs, all on tiny or small maps. As I suspected, the AIs simply drooled on themselves offering not even a hit of competition. Minor civs and events were 100x more deadly. So, I kick it up to Normal against all the AIs, on a Small map. Ouch. All the AIs were developing everything at at l