As for the Demo... umm soon.. maybe.. possibly... Ask Frogboy, aka Draginol
The game will run Windows 98.
Make sure your desktop resolution is set for 32 bit prior to installing the game and before trying to run it.
Take note the MINIMUM specs to run the game are below.
Minimum Specs:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III 800 mhz or equivalent processor
256MB RAM, 32MB DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card
Draginol
"Hey Neighbor! Can I install my beta software on your machine?
Because you want the game experience to be great for everyone, even the people with very low end hardware. It was very important to us that people not have to have some state of the art computer. So there we are, running around with CDs to friends and neighbors to make sure that we're not just testing it in the testing lab or relying exclusively on the gamma team installing the thing on some funky hardware.
Testing on Win98 and 2K were a lot tougher than we had expected. It's really hard to find people with those OSes now. It's hard to believe that Windows XP is now going on 5 years old. And you can't just buy some machine and throw on a copy of Win98 or 2K on them. You have to find a machine that would realistically have the hardware that someone would have. And it's a pain. Because Object Desktop supports only Windows XP at this point, it was really a challenge to test on those OSes. We actually had to make a special Windows 98 version of the game -- the installer literally uses different EXEs/ DLLs if you're running Win98 because the latest DirectX SDK doesn't support Win98 or 2K (oh, it SAYS it does but it doesn't in practice). This will definitely be the last game we make that isn't XP or higher. It's just too time consuming to cater to an audience that, according to our web logs, represents less than 1% of the gaming user base.
Testing on Win98/2K brought back all the old memories too. It was during that period that people used to argue, with good reason, that consoles woudl rule and PC's were "d0med" because PC games didn't reliably work from one PC to another. Oh it comes back. "Oh, your Win98 box is already stuffed full of spyware and now you're going to try to run a 3D video game?" Surprisingly, Windows 2000 is actually worse because it's DirectX support is even spottier. Oh the video driver may say it's for Windows 2000, but its DirectX functionality may not have been touched in a long time.
But we felt it was important not to lock out Win98/ME/2K users because it's a strategy game and we wanted to make sure it was as accessible to as many people as possible." |
The quote is taken directly from Draginol's Developer Journal heres the Link https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=0&p=6&s=1&d=DESC
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