OK............What is it ???????...LOL .....share,.. tell us

OK as stated before I updated everything known to man on my puter EXCEPT 1 thing... After doing some reading regarding the HResult 0x8007007E that seemed to be a common error, seemed the problem was in 2 areas ... MS .net and and didnt hit me til hr ago DirectX...

Like I said i reinstalled etc .net several times upgraded to 3.0 ... trial and error keep it at 2.0..

Now for the grand finale DirectX.... I by a last ditch hunch I installed DirectX9 SDK and well seems that was the original issue all along....I can now open all maps etc no problems at all... Here's the download link to what I installed....

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=371f6ba4-2737-46ab-b275-0dcab31459b5&DisplayLang=en

Go figure it had to be simple but elusive......

Currently have Milkyway map up and goin...tried several others no prob

Also this will not run on a Fat 32 system...

well if not then i`ll have to wait till i get my gaming pc up

i`m going to format it ntfs



is this directx 9.0c or just 9.0 ???

Hell i dont know it worked...lolol use the link I included take ya right to it

Actually i tried just DX9 and didnt work so installed this and all worked fine...so something they included on the package musta been the prob or files we didnt have

its 9.19

...ok i`ll try it

Well did it work????lol
  

thanks Borg35 for the tip it worked for me to just wish we could figure out what file it was directx sdk is a big install

Ya it is but I guess its sposed to help in other games too....In long run guess its worth it... Besides harddrives are cheap anymore..... Kool I posted this to Korx on the I-mod site

cool that will help others to and by the way it works with fat 32 to!!

and i have a 160gb hd full don`t how but it is LOL so it is time to clean drive

Actually, downloading the dx sdk is not a real solution. But it proves, that something must be wrong with the dx dlls delivered with galciv2ide, Since they are copies of the dll included in sdk. Therefore, if all works correctly, there wouldn't be the need to download sdk(~400MB). However, if it runs now, that is good news, temporariliy

Uh oh... MEaning???

Well if someone does manage to microsolution the problem i'm all ears... I'n mean time i'll keep playin around with it see if I can narrow the issue

Temporarily just means, I still have to find the error, but you got it running.
You can go with the sdk, but it was not intended that people have to download the quite big sdk

Understandable...I'm gonna play around with DX versions see what i can find

I googled for the "HRESULT 0x8007007E" error message.

The supposed solution is, to download MS DxWebSetup and all should be fine.

Please, to all who have this problem, and didn't download the directx sdk as suggested earlier, give some feedback if the downloadlink helped.

Thats where I got the idea for the dxsdk..... uninstalled the dxsdk (not easy) and did the websetup etc... all is still fine tho noticed some programs actually slowed a bit... Kinda felt like the sdk sped up several programs and a few games....not sure why

Ok.. i looked @ the map editor.. looks VERY good..

BUT man.. being honest.. make a RANDOM MAP GENERATOR..

I don't care if it is not equal to what the game itself can do.. just that it does it somewhat ok...

This would allow me to make a map easier a just tweak what i want (i loved that about galciv 1)

So, what can be done?
Starnames... I don't want to name all my stars....

Thanks

Starnames are coming with 1.0.6.7, they'll get randomly read from stars.txt, if starname left blank, planets & asteroids will be named accordingly to parent star's name
Concerning a random mapgen, I'll think about it after the new DataEditor module is done.

I downloaded that and it wont work. It says something about my network connection. Also the map editor program will not even start up i just get some fatal error.

can you please post the debug.err?

Kryo, do you know how the galaxy setup(aka rare...to...abundant) works? Are these percentage values of the overall value, eg. # of Stars= common =^ 50% of a max val of stars for this mapsize ? Same with Habitable Planets. Or are these fixed values, and if what are the max stars(planets) for a given mapsize, in terms of gameengine?
An example:
MilkyWayMap

Stars:220
Planets:76
AsteroidFields:98

The question aims at random galaxy creation, does the example come close to possible MaxValues?

When I execute the ap GalCiv2IDE, I get a window entitled "Options". Two “enable mod” options are selectable. The “dark avatar installed” and “select mod folder” options are grayed out (I have DA installed.) Regardless of what I select I get a window entitled "GalCiv2IDE" that says GalCiv2IDE has encountered a problem…. The ap never starts. I’m running XP home service pack 2, Net Framework 3.0, direct X 9c.
Any one know what’s up?