On a similar note, does anyone know if it's possible to take over minor race planets with influence? I tried this in my last game with no success, and since you can't (afaik) conduct espionage against them, it's imposible to see the numbers for the effect your influence is having.
I had the same experience as the original poster playing a game with huge galaxy, all races, on tough (started with patch 1.09, finished with 1.0X). Again the Drengin and Altarians expanded as you would expect, but the others seemed to ignore pretty good planets near them and didn't expand as they would have in earlier versions.
Just installed a BFG 6800 GS OC yesterday using, I think, the same drivers as you have, and the game runs absolutely fine. Edit: AGP as well.
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