Rifty

Rifty, did you do a clean install and then install GalCiv2, or did you upgrade XP to vista without a clean install? If so, you should just have to delete the sig.bin file so that Stardock Central can re-activate GalCiv2. I tried both ways. But there was an error with my ability to activate. Support was able to help me get back up to playing again this morning. Again, not a huge deal but it did shock me that it became an issue at all.

The only thing that you need is to delete the sig.bin file and launch the activation process only once per PC or laptop. You don't have any restriction about of number of time or the number of computers you can do that except that you can't play simultaneously the game on 2 different computers at the same time. It is hardly DRM. That's what I thought too. But since Sunday when I "upgraded" to Windows Vista I haven't been able to play the game I legally