Demo crashes with "Device Lost" error on WinXP, current drivers (ATI HD3850)
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Hello everyone!
This is quite a pity, since I have heard a great many good things about the game, but am not really willing to buy it if I see that the engine is not able to cope with my computer 
Here is the (slightly cut) output of debug.err:
Code: c#
- Debug Message: Entering WinMain
- Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
- Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
- Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
- Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES
- Debug Message: Game Resolution: 1024 x 768
- Debug Message: Running fullscreen.
- Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
- Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
- Debug Message: Refresh rate: 60
- Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
- Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
- Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
- Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
- Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
- Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
- Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
- Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
- Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
- Debug Message: initailizing bink
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask Gfx\Tutorials\*.bik
- Debug Message: Create setup screens.
- Debug Message: Clear galaxy settings.
- Debug Message: Clear influence.
- Debug Message: Clear up laws.
- Debug Message: Clear first time events.
- Debug Message: Clear wonders and trade goods.
- Debug Message: Clear sector mapper.
- Debug Message: Set mouse.
- Debug Message: Set update timer.
- Debug Message: Clear data definitions.
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\grayFalcon\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\*.StarSystems
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\grayFalcon\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\*.raceconfig
- *DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for PirateShip. ***
- *DEBUG ERROR: ***Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for Starbase. ***
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\grayFalcon\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships\*.shipclass
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\grayFalcon\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\ships\*.shipcfg
- Debug Message: Reading Star Names
- Debug Message: Reading Star Names... Done
- Debug Message: No files found matching mask ./Data/English/Tutorials/*.xml
- Debug Message: CustomRaceWnd: Cannot find OBJID CustomRace_Description_Text
- Debug Message: CustomRaceWnd: Cannot find OBJID CustomRace_Tab_Homeworld
- Debug Message: Creating Galaxy
- Debug Message: Set galaxy size.
- Debug Message: Killing threads.
- Debug Message: Kiling civs.
- Debug Message: Killing ships.
- Debug Message: Killing rallypoints.
- Debug Message: Killing misc objects.
- Debug Message: Killing stars.
- Debug Message: Killing anomalies.
- Debug Message: Killing space resources.
- Debug Message: Killing colonies and planets.
- Debug Message: killing scenario.
- Debug Message: Clear galaxy settings.
- Debug Message: Clear influence.
- Debug Message: Clear up laws.
- Debug Message: Clear first time events.
- Debug Message: Clear wonders and trade goods.
- Debug Message: Clear sector mapper.
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map... Stars
- Debug Message: Number of Unplaced Stars: 9.
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map... Planets
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map... Anomalies
- Debug Message: Num Anomalies: 42
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map... Resources
- Debug Message: Creating Random Map... Done
- Debug Message: Creating Civs
- Debug Message: Drengin Empire: Intellence -> 30
- Debug Message: Altarian Republic: Intellence -> 30
- Debug Message: Arcean Empire: Intellence -> 30
- Debug Message: Creating Civs... Done
- Debug Message: Updating ZOC.
- Debug Message: Updating ZOC.
- Debug Message: Galaxy Create... Done
- Debug Message: UIBeginGame called with g_ulLocalPlayerID = 0
- Debug Message: setting size 16 x 0
- Debug Message: setting size 16 x 0
- Debug Message: setting size 16 x 0
- Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
- Debug Message: Device lost
- Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
- Debug Message: Device lost
- Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
- Debug Message: Device lost
- [the last two messages repeat for a few hundred lines]
I can still kill the game with alt-F4, though this totally screws up my display: One of my screens stays black, while the other shows a section of my desktop with so many artifacts that it is hardly possible to read anything.
Thanks a lot in advance for any help!
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