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cludgy design for allocating resources. in Galactic Civilizations Series Stardock Forums

I find the game interface on GCIII much more inefficient and kludgy than on GC II Twilight of the Arnor. It is so much more time consuming finding out how to allocate resources and make purchases and move pieces. It is far from intuitive and I really find it a turn off. I think Stardock has been doing this since the Sins of the Solar Empire which I have still yet to play because of its obtuse interface. Why make things difficult to play??? This needs an overhaul or I am out of here.</p

GC 3 needs working class rebellion and class struggle in Galactic Civilizations Series Stardock Forums

What has characterized human society over the past 5 years? Class warfare by the finance capitalists demanding austerity so they can increase their rate of capital accumulation and fund their wars for oil . On the working class' part the response has been been fight back against wage and benefit cuts and growing rebellions against racist police terror. This concept of class warfare and class struggle belongs in GC3 , It would make the game far more interesting to see consequences o

Reply to 3 questions from Stardock to you in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

I will specifically answer question 3. I believe a that we have 10,001 patriotic pro-capitalist games. The fact is most people are working class. We have no strategy games that give us a chance to rebel against oppressive tyranny by the bosses and rulers. The reality of the last 2-3 years shows mass rebellion whether it be over racism in the US or extreme poverty and state oppression in Bangladesh, the Mid East, or workers in France, Italy, and Greece fighting back against austerity by stagin

Reply to Greetings and welcome! Questions and Answers in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I have been a user of Galciv since its initial launch on the os/2 operating system. I would like to see an option in Galciv 3 for a race or civilization that is based on egalitarianism and collectivity. I know this is demonized in this capitalist society, but it is an every day fact of life for the working class both here and globally. The strategy would be to unite as many as possible to overcome the greedy exploiters in other civilizations by fomenting armed revolution and civil war against

wont run since I installed ATI HD6950 in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

The gme tries to open only a partial window. Though I believe the lst time i played it it ws full-screen at 1920x1080 or 1680x 1050. I chneed windows 7 64-bit screen resolution to all possibiklities nd it still will not run. No visual or sound effects. Is there a way to reset screen resolution without opening the whole program? Also are there any known bugs with windows 7 64-bit or with the Radeon HD 6950. Before I had a Radeon 4870. Running with latest Catlyst drivers.

Reply to Sins of the Solar Empire or GalCiv? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

I have played Gal Civ since it came out on the os/2 platform years go. I thought Sins would be easy to transition to, but I have not even been able to figure the basics of it out. What a waste of money for me.

Reply to Name some OS other than Windows, Mac and Linux in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

How about Ecom Station the successor to OS/w Warp. It has slowly been upgraded where it stands now, I am not sure but it has a website www.ecomstation.com

Twilight of the Arnor no longer works since I moved to an AMFD Phenom and ATI HD 3870 in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I just changed my motherboard and cpu and video card this week. I now have an AMD Phenom 3600 processor and an AT HD3870 video card. Twilight of the Arnor just leaves a black screen when I open the program. I can close it by going back to the desk top with an Alt Tab but why is it not working. The previous Gall Civ II expansion works fine- Dread Lords

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Which brings up the question anyhow: Are you gonna release TA on storeshelves as well, or only online? Looks like it's going to be online only, at least for now. If you order a CD it will likely be just the CD in an envelope as with DA. That is NOT right. I am supposed to have access to all products including GCII products and add-os with my credits from TGN. It's time for Frogboy to step in andcorrect this

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Can I use my tokens on TGN to purchase Twilight of the Arnor. I do not see an option to do that.

Reply to Out of memory in DA in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have had the same memory-related crashes since before D.A. was released and all throughout its development. I have sent the debug.err file in on 3 occasions. They just can never resolve this issue. Stop blaming the user. I have turned off anti-aliasing, I have turned of ship textures. I have 2 GB of physical mmeory and very large page files for my partitions as was suggested. I have done my part. I do NOT think Stradock has a good handle on this. They have acknowledged the memory issues for

DA 1.61 Still Crashes in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I have reported crashes with D.A. since its first release mainly centering on out of memory crashes and Nvidia display driver crashes. I was hoping with 1.61 it was fixed. It sure seemed smoother . But this program still has memory handling problems. I have 2 GB of memory and a very large page file and it still crashes in a huge universe when you have colonized many planets and have built many custom ships. I have turned testures off and all anti-aliasing yet this bug still persists. I can pla

Reply to Possible Ship Upgrade Bug? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

My bug is that any ship I upgrade when I am building custom made huge ships turns into a Overlord instead of my more powerful design. That is all my older ships when upgraded tuen into overlords. The new ones are ok. Running latest DA 1.61

Nvidia display driver crash resurfaces after upgrading driver with D.A. 1.6 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have a bug in D.A. 1.6 . It had worked flawlessly until I updated my Nvidia driver for my 7800GTX card as Cari Elf had recommended. I have tried to drag and drop debug.err file to this post unsuccessfully you should have an attachment link but you don't. I het a memory dump which points to nv_4display.dll. I had this problem in the past. Since Stardock had fixed this when D.A. came out. I don't know why your code conflicted with the new Nvidia driver, which Cari Elf said would address my long

Reply to Tell us what you'd like in Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I would love for the game not to crash so much.

Dark Avatar latest release 1.50x.072 Crashes repeatedly in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Before this release I was getting the Blue screen of death. Now every hour or less of play and this game crashes back to the windows desktop and a message whether to send the error data to Microsoft appears. This is the buggiest recent release of Dark Avatar. The one immediately preceding this was far beyter but still occasionally crashed with the blue screen dump. Cari is aware of the problems I have been experiencing.

Reply to Any news on the VIsta/Nvidia Problem? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have a Nvidia driver problem with a7800GTX card. Every 2 or three days it crashes and does a physical memory dump when playing D>A. It mentions the Nvidia_4.dll. It refers to a page memory fault at non-paging address whatever that means. I would like some attention paid to this as I called it in before D.A. went gold and was told it should be solved with the released product. It has occurred again on the released product, so it obviously has not been fixed.

Nvidia display driver crash-memory dump. in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Every few days I get a crash in Dark Avatar which gives a blue screen and refers nv4-display.dll. It says a page fault in a non-paging area. I have an Nvidia 7800GTXand am using the latest Nvidia driver. Can somebody explain what I can do about this problem?? I am running on an Athlon64 x2 4400 cpu with 2 x 1MB cache on cpu. I have a large cache assigned to memory paging.

Reply to STICKY: Dual Core Machines may need a driver update in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Cari, I have a x2 4400 processor with 2x 1MB cache. I have ntoiced some crashes and many reboots of the system with this processor only with Galciv2 specifically with the Dark Avatar beta. I had the latest AMD driver but that has not helped. I just installed a hotfix ,mentioned on this forum, from Microsoft. No reboot yet. The AMD driver and website you mentioned downloads at dial-up speed when I have a 30Mb/ second connection so I gave up on it. I am running XP MediaCenter 2005 with all fixes

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar HAS GONE GOLD! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I pre-ordered with tokens a couple of months ago. But there was no option from what I recall to oder the hardcopy with the tokens. What do I do to guarantee I get the hardcopy I desire? I had leftover tokens at the time and what have gladly used them to pay for the added hardciopy expense. It was not an option to my dismay.

Reply to GalCiv II: KNOWN issue list in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just crashed with huge universe near end of game just shy of achieving technology for excalibur ships. Crash occurred when attempting to save game. The old bug of "out of memory, increase your virtual memory came up. Thisis a joke because I recntly installed a new system board with 2 GB fast pc4000 rma and an Athlon 64 3800+ cpu. This is a serious error if I get memory errors with 2 GB of physical memory installed. You guys have to get crackin. I have the latest stable Nvidia drivers download

Reply to Faster isn't always faster in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Yes that is exactly it. The crashes do not occurr even in a huge universe until you can build huge ships with many weapon and defense arrays. That is after MANY, Many hours of play.

1.11 Bug Fix in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I must commend Stardock ,and CariElf in particular, in resolving the memory fragmentation issue in a rapid manner , once the issue was known. The quality of the fix is EXCELLENT. The game saves are extremely fast now, faster than they ever were. I know Stardock has a quality team of people and I do not want any of my criticisms to be construed as anything else than a call to improve testing methodology to avoid a repeat in the future. I know there will always be bugs, I just wanted a better s

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II v1.11 released in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I would like you to agree to amend your comment Brad. If any user chose a huge universe and built a huge ship with a full allotment of weapons and defenses and had less than 2 GB of physical memory, they indeed would have experienced this problem later in their games. To characterize the problem as experienced by say 15% of users is highly inaccurate. That implies the problem was the users configuration. It was NOT the user configuration that was at issue. It was a problem of memory management

Reply to *Unofficial* Test Build to address 1.1 Memory/Save Game/Crash issues in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Where is the link for build 13?. Thanks.