Pixelation/Visual Bug

Pixel Shifts?

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Hello

I play GC2: Dark Avatar on a virtual machine (Windows XP). I had been playing a free play game on and off for the last couple of months. The game overall runs very well, and only seems to crash when I do something that overwhelms the memory, such as pullings ships out of a 25 ship fleet one by one too rapidly. What I have noticed, if I play/run the game for long enough, after making some commands, parts of the screen start to flutter, with pixels seeming to slide out of place (back & forth), mostly around the edges. The screen is still quite visible, and it mostly seems to affect the text, but it's annoying and distracting enough that I usually quit and restart the game. Lately, it seems to be occurring more rapidly, so that every few turns, it goes nuts. I thought it might have something to do with where the game is at now. Because it's in custom free play, I chose the biggest map with the most planets I could cram in there. When I started, it took a while for the bug to hit, or it wouldn't hit at all. With my in-game empire now having more than 450 starships, and the other CPU ones being in the hundreds, and with at least 650 inhabited planets on the map, maybe its too visually overwhelming for the software. There's probably almost 800-1,000 ships on the map.

Anyone encounter this as well? I've looked around, but can't find anything that fits the bill. Maybe too specific.

 

Thanks,

Marcos

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hello,

 

The problem has gotten a lot worse. Some time after increasing the RAM of the virtual machine, the game just crashes half way through a turn after loading a saved game. The following message window appears:

"

Microsoft Visual C++ Library

 

Buffer Overrun Deleted!

Program:...talGaming\GalCiv2\GC2DarkAvatar.exe

A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution and must now be terminated.

"

 

I tried playing the campaign (first mission) of Dark Avatar for several rapid turns, and there didn't seem to be a problem. i've looked online, and found some things that were close, but nothing specific. I used to be great with crappy old computers as a kid (my school had a lot of old mouse-less single-unit personal computers), and I first had a computer with DOS and Windows 95. I was also good with the old Macs too. This virtual machine on my Mac is the only way I have to play this fun and one of my favorite games. If anyone has a clue as to what's going on, please let me know.

 

I've tried several things, none of them have worked.

 

Thanks,

Marcos