Question 1- My game is always crashing. Usually randomly, but almost always on a vote screen. I have a radeon 9600 series at max performance, everything looks great, but it still keeps crashing randomly. I have downloaded all the updates I could find- which wasn't easy, but I still get the same thing.
Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.
Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug will be erased and recreated for the new session.
Note: If running on Vista with DA 1.6b2 or later, the debug.err is now located in My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar.
Question 2- I downloaded some mods, but I can't find them in the game
interface screen. How or where do I put them so I can use them.
Which mods specifically (please give links to them)? Not all mods use the mods folder, so installation can vary.
Question 3- Is there anyway to record some of the really fun space ship
battles you go through so you can have like a library of your greatest
ship fights.
Not in-game, though you could do this with a thrid-party recording utility such as FRAPs.