Locks up on game startup

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I can't even start a game. It locks up at the first screen it comes to, which looks like a sectioned pie in the upper left corner. It buzzes just before it locks up. I have set my sound acceleration at each setting and it does not good. I have set my desktop resolutions to diff settings (i.e., 1024x768x16, etc.) and still I lock up. I have a Duron 800 system with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and 256 MRam. I don't have any problems running any other games or apps, just this one. Any ideas?

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Could you post your debug.err file here? (../Galactic Civilizations/debug.err)

I havn't heard of this problem, but hopefully someone else has overcome the issue and can help us out. ;)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
What soundcard do you have? Did you try tp play the game with sound disabled? Do you have the latest drivers installed for your system video and audio? Do you have the latest directx installed? Just some suggestions. Some people have problems running the game with Soundblaster family cards.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Freya, you're a genius. I disabled my sound card drivers and it loaded perfectly. My sound card is an AOpen AW200 which I am given to understand is a Soundblaster clone, or Soundblaster-compatible at any rate.

Yes, I have all the latest drivers installed for video and audio. It is apparently a sound card compatiblity issue. I have seen a few others complain about the same thing. I hope they read this.

Now I hope the tech support people can just figure out what it is about SB and SB-compatible cards that doesn't mesh with GalCiv so I can play with sound. Otherwise I may have to go hunting for a new sound card. Any suggestions?

~SDC~
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
It isn't all SB cards (my Audigy works just fine), but there's definitely something funny going on with some of them, especially the Live family.

- Ash

~SDC~