Galciv II ultimate edition, substanstial bug.

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So i've got Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate Edition, my computer is in fact a beast. Nvidia 9600 GT, windows XP, good sound, everythings good but when i start a game on galciv, it starts and creation. After choosing my race the little picture of the ship in the lower-rigth flips around, and glitches really fast. when i get to the game, if i move my mouse to the edge to move around it goes to the midst of black space, so i have to click on the mini-map to move. this is highly annoying and detracts from the overall enjoyment of the game substantially, is there a solution to said problem?

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

have you tried reinstalling the game, lowering the mouse sensitivity, or reinstalling your drivers?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I can say that this is a problem not shared by everyone - I bought GalCiv2 ultimate just a week ago and has seen nothing of this, so taking a look at drivers / settings might be an idea, as Valiard suggests.

(I actually have a similar PC to what you report - 9600 GT graphic card, xi-fi soundblaster platinum, and windows XP.. although calling it a beast is a bit of an exaggeration. :). If you have the very newest Nvidia drivers, I've run into some problems with those, so you might want to backtrack to 190.63.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Khardis, reply 3
although calling it a beast is a bit of an exaggeration.
End of Khardis's quote

QFT, hehehehe.

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

A slow ass beast perhaps lol.

 

Check  your graphics and mouse drivers.  Also that your set resolution is not larger than the monitor's native resolution.  The last one is not applicable if your monitor is a 15" CRT beast.  It only might work for the plan TFT/LCD monitors.

 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

It is funny he calls it a beast and he is still running an o/s from what seven years ago. He hasnt posted back so I take it his problem has resolved itself. If so can you post back to say how you resolved it for future ref incase anyone else has the same problem

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Marcus_Suridius, reply 6
...he is still running an o/s from what seven years ago.
End of Marcus_Suridius's quote

Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, so almost precisely 8 years ago. Fun fact of the day.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

So if this was 2001, he would be using DOS 6.22+ Windows 3.1   nice

 

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Huh. Trolls eh? I think that's rather stupid Efthimios, i don't always use OS's from seven years ago. Plus Windows Vista sucks, and alot of games aren't compatible with vista and Win7. Dumb trolls.

 

Also, i fixed it by correcting the scroll edge speed but it came back up for no apparent reason.

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting x2y, reply 9
Huh. Trolls eh? I think that's rather stupid Efthimios...
End of x2y's quote

Note that Efthimios and others did their best to help you with your problem. I'd hardly call that trolling. You did say something funny by calling your rig with a 9600GT a "beast," so I think people were just having a little fun with what you said. I don't think anybody had any malicious intent.

Thanks for coming back and telling us how you fixed the problem.

Merry Christmas, champ!

 

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

I can say that this is a problem not shared by everyone - I bought GalCiv2 ultimate just a week ago and has seen nothing of this, so taking a look at drivers / settings might be an idea, as Valiard suggests.