lobosan

Well - it looks like there is a real incompatibility of the GalCiv II graphical engine and the mobile version of the ATI X1600 video card. Several posters could reproduce the reboot/overheating problem. Non of the games I play (now including Fallout 3) show that behavior but it could be a design or driver flaw of the video card. Now, I really hope that the Elemental: War of Magic graphical engine will be compatible with ATI X1600 video cards. That, or I have to convince

Is anybody successfully running GalCiv II on a MacBook Pro or other mac hardware with Bootcamp?

Thanks for the referrals. Still no luck running GalCiv II on MacBook Pro even with the latest driver updates. XP Pro crashes to reboot after about 1 minute. No other application does it.

I experience crashes to reboot every time I am playing GalCiv 2 with or without Dark Avatar on my MacBook Pro running Windows XP SP2 natively. Crashes to reboot occur inevitable but I can play longer if the laptop is cooler and the video settings are set lower. Crashes (Windows freezes, the reboots) occur between ca. 3 to 30 minutes of running GalCiv 2. Every time I update GalCiv 2 (1.8a now), I hope the crash bug will be fixed but no luck so far. Off course, it could be a

That was it. I set the prefs.ini video settings to 1440 x 900 and GalCiv II works now. Thank you Moostek13, Peace Phoenix, and kyro.

I am running GalCiv II on a MacBook Pro with the ATI driver supplied by Apple. The laptop display is set to 1400*1050 at 32 bit. There are about 5 "Default Monitor" settings to choose from. The following games work without a hitch even set to high quality (including 32 bit when available): Fallout 1 & 2, Homeworld (not HW2 though), Civ4, Oblivion, Titan Quest, and Supreme Commander. I guess I am dating myself <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Smile.gif" bord

kryo, thank you for looking into my problem. I should have thought of searching for the error log and posting it in the first place. My guess is, it is a video setting problem. 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: 6/15/2007, 08:02:47 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: ###

GalCiv II-DO freezes with a black screen on start up on my MacBook Pro. I am running XP on the latest Boot Camp beta and never had problems with any of my other games. I have reinstalled GalCiv II twice without luck. Does anybody else run the game on Boot Camp?