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The Drengin Council - Altarian Prophecy Beta

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The Drengin Council - Altarian Prophecy Beta

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The Council reconvenes for the Altarian Prophecy Beta that has just been released.

Put your comments, feedback, bug reports here for easy access by Stardock and also for the Drengin deprived to let them know what they are missing. ;)

~SDC~
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top
I've played a bit with the team thing and really think this should be either scrapped altogether or the diplomacy should be totally changed in these games. There is no reason why you wouldn't trade all your techs with your fellow team members. Humans in MP would probably do, and would take care of researching different techs. Seeing that your ally has dreadnought tech and won't give it to you when you could save him with it is a bit weird. The ai's also sue for peace when they'll be dragged into war immediately afterwards. This is already the case with alliances, but with teams it's even worse. Right now it's a nest of exploits.
Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top
Brad,
I get a "Cannot find any compatible DirectX devices" message when I try to run the editor. I'm using windows XP and have DirectX 9.0b installed. I'll try reinstalling DirectX and see if that helps.

Paul.

~SDC~
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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top
OK,
I reinstalled DirectX from the Galciv CD and the problem remains. When I run the map editor I immediately get a pop up window telling me that no compatible Directx components were found. The following is the DirectX Diagnostic info,

Operating System : Windows XP home edition (5.1, build 2600)
System Manufacturer : HP Pavilion 4
Bios : Phoenix - AwardBios v6.00PG
Processor : Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Memory : 512MB RAM
Page File : 168MB used, 1081 MB available
DirectX Version : DirectX 9.0 (4.09.0000.0900)

Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 420

Hope this helps,

Paul.

~SDC~
Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top
Will the CD of Altarian Prophecy contain the latest iteration of Gal Civ? It would certainly be a archiving benefit.
Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top
CTD midgame for no apparent reason. Can't load either Autosave game - immediate CTD. Installed smartexception and tried again - report is:


Stardock SmartException Logging Information
-------------------------------------------

OS Version : Windows XP
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 005E287C 01:001E187C C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000008
EBX:00000000
ECX:00000001
EDX:00000000
ESI:00000004
EDI:10088020
CS:EIP:001B:005E287C
SS:ESP:0023:0012F56C EBP:0012F574
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010297


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
005E287C 0012F574 0001:001E187C C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
0058025B 0012F590 0001:0017F25B C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
004F812F 0012F5D8 0001:000F712F C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
00502A96 0012F660 0001:00101A96 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
0051CFE5 0012F90C 0001:0011BFE5 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
004B88FA 0012FA28 0001:000B78FA C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
00486E05 0012FC60 0001:00085E05 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
0058A592 0012FC7C 0001:00189592 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
0058A854 0012FC98 0001:00189854 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
0058681E 0012FCC4 0001:0018581E C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
005A9F41 0012FCF8 0001:001A8F41 C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
77D43A50 0012FD24 0001:00002A50 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B1F 0012FD8C 0001:00002B1F C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D45B2C 0012FDBC 0001:00004B2C C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D45F73 0012FDDC 0001:00004F73 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
5101EA58 0012FE08 0001:0001DA58 C:\WINDOWS\System32\DDRAW.dll
77D43A50 0012FE34 0001:00002A50 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43B1F 0012FE9C 0001:00002B1F C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D43D79 0012FEFC 0001:00002D79 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
77D44374 0012FF34 0001:00003374 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
005E517A 0012FFC0 0001:001E417A C:\Program Files\Stardock\Drengin.net\AltarianProphecy\galciv.exe
77E814C7 0012FFF0 0001:000204C7 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll


Debug information for each stardock app follows ....


End of quote


Savegames and report put aside and can be emailed if required.

Alex


~SDC~
Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top
ok 1st report for me

started game with the beta set everything up went fine

found a galaxy with control-n I liked saved the map

kept playing played a few turns made my normal "temp saves save file"

exited out

rebooted

ran gal civ beta again tried to load the temp save game CTD

I have a ATI Vid card so its not a Nvidia type problem



~SDC~