In the latest Beta, everyone went nuts against me when I played the Yor. Out of six AI races, only one had neutral relations towards me and the rest were negative. I have no idea how I'm going to beat it, the Altarians are thwomping me.
Your video chip reads like its a Radeon 7000 equivalent, and your memory is too small. I'm telling you, it's not unexpected that this game won't work at all. Run Smart Exception. It's in the Free Stuff section of Stardock Central. Debug.err won't be useful.
I possibly would, but it depends on its quality/depth. I wouldn't pay $20 for play-by-email functionality alone, for example.
and oh btw, pmsfl @ kenes & consumed.... I still use it. Makes a decent enough server box with Linux loaded on it.
Post the debug.err and run Smart Exception (SDC --> Free Stuff)?
Install the game without movies? You'd have to do it through SDC, but it's not that hard. Or you could just try deleting (or renaming) the movies folder inside the Galciv2 directory.
24.5C? There goes that idea, I'm out :/
What's the point of this threaad, exactly? I mean, are you doing a survey of people who play TBS games or do you like reading about hardware? =o I've got one computer sitting here that's a 300mhz P2 with a 3GB harddrive and a borked CD drive. The monitor it's hooked up to is generally off, but it's a nice 640x480 dealie that makes a terrific headache-inducing squeel noise. Mmmm, headaches.
For whatever reason, the game overheats poorly ventilated cards like a banshee. The first diagnostic measure I'd take is to open the side of the case and point a fan in to see if that helps.
Most cheaper ATI or nVidia cards will run the game (I'm thinking ATI two generations back, the 9600s or 9800s, or nVidia/ATI one generation back) but that Intel card won't have a good time of it. There's probably nothing to fix it.
When comes the "Spelling Mod" ? In any case, I like the text. It has a light-hearted attitude to it. Everything sci-fi doesn't have to be dull statistics and dire outlooks.
the first poster has a 6200. that's still supported... it's only one generation down from the current one, even if it is the low-end of that generation. nVidia's site, as well as Guru3d's and others don't show the GO 6200 as being supported anymore, just the desktop 6200. Again, the inf hack supposedl
To install the latest ATI drivers, you're going to have to run a utility from right here . It should modify the drivers to let you use them. Read the instructions before posting back here confused However, even with the new drivers you might not have much luck. Your GPU is an embedded dealy that's built into yo
Honestly, I'd bet you can blame this on nVidia. Their latest drivers dropped support for the older GO cards. I'm pretty sure guru3d.com has a version of the drivers with a modified inf file that lets the drivers install.
I believe a common term to describe this is "self-righteous".
Update your video card drivers . I was only a couple versions behind and this happened to me. You on the other hand, have got a driver from all the way back to 2004.
Umm, you click the button in the characters thing (at metaverse.galciv2.com) to make your character the default one. Ignore the fact that it looks "greyed out"; that just means that you havn't clicked it yet.
Software is not going to kill a properly cooled video card unless it somehow forced the card to overclock itself or overwrote its firmware.
You know, you could always create ships with nothing but the super powerful weapons (Nano Ripper, or the Evil only weapons). Expensive as the dickens, but they'd get the job done. Could even do it with the cargo hull. What more do missiles add, besides being inexpensive and therefore poorly balanced? Just cosmetics.
Indeed, make sure your paths are all intact and also that the external hard drive has not gone and changed drive letters on you. Try wiping out your preferences stuff, in the My Documents\My Games directory. On those failing, run SmartException (in the Free Stuff area of SDC), and then get the game to crash. It should generate more useful debug info for diagnosis.
Update your video drivers (visit ATI.com, choose the Drivers menu at the top of the page and follow along). Also, install SmartException. It's in Stardock Central in the Free Stuff area. This handy little tool should help the Stardock folks figure out exactly what part of the game is crashing and possibly why. The debug.err isn't useful for that.
Honestly, I never read paper game magazines for good reason. They're all ads. The overhyped games always get terrific ratings despite how crappy they may be (see Driv3r), and the largest multi-page reviews. Indy titles or more underrated games are often overlooked entirely, or given little consideration.
I don't agree with half their reviews (though on a rare occasion there's an excellent one, even if I don't agree with it), and G4 in general is the pits, but this is good to hear.
I tend to like disabling influence victories, but they're generally a nice idea for people who don't like to have to mop up the map after they've virtually won.
Get rid of the weird transitions. Just make the things pop up instantly (or very quickly), it would make it a lot faster and more pleasant to navigate. Besides that, nice work.
