Essentially your video card will run full-out unless this is enabled, causing it to overheat and crash the game. GalCiv 2 uses a lot of graphical bells & whistles, plus ships can essentially have an unlimited number of polys, causing cards to overheat without this. Using this option won't impact the speed of the game, however, so there's really no downside.
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