Hi, I'm back

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Hi all...been away for awhile.

Well, I've made the big plunge and upgraded to XP...which means that I'm going to have to reinstall GalCiv from the disk and upgrade it from vanilla to the latestest version.

Just wondering if there's anything I'll have to look out for re the XP installation??

BTW, did you think a worm (virus) could survive an upgrade from ME to XP, including a hard drive format and going from FAT32 to NTFS?????? :notsure:

Well they can, because my XP has been infected from the start. Seems Norton wasn't fixing the worm because it didn't affect ME...with the result that after upgrading, I was getting rebooted every few minutes when trying to do the Windows update. Major headaches >:(

I seem to be getting it sorted now though....

Cheers, Stupot
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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, upgraded to XP! Welcome to the 21st Century! Now, watch it slowly become obsolete before your eyes. WHATEVER you do; make SURE you have ALL the XP updates from Microsoft, ther are a LOT!
Like Matthew said; I know of no XP specific bugs.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Welcome back, Stupot!

No problems on XP for me, either. Have fun getting back into the game! :)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Where did you go???? :notsure: Some special retreat? Primus 1 or Alexias 2??? LOL LOL Welcome back
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
You shouldn't have any problems with XP.  You might even get better performance from Gal Civ, since the video and sound drivers for XP are generally better than for ME or Win98.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Matthew, SLW, Theoden, Seeker, and Cari,

The only thing I vaguely remember hearing issues about was to do with a firewall and submitting to the Metaverse.

I have enabled XP's firewall....is this of any relevance? I am yet to reinstall Stardock, etc.

Stupot
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
If you have trouble submitting scores, disable the XP firewall.  Otherwise, you should be fine.