Galciv no longer visible in DGM?

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As of this evening Galciv is no longer a choice to either play or update in DGM. Show betas is checked and B.U.G.S. shows up just fine but Galciv is gone.

I can still play the game if I run the executable directly but DGM disavows it's existence.
Puzzling
Magus
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
No joy. I tried a complete uninstall, delete everything left behind, then reinstall. Still no Galciv.
Magus
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Wednesday, 6:30 pm. Same problem here: I cannot update to the just announced Beta 1Z because, as Citizen Magus has observed, GalCiv does not appear anymore on Drengin. How then are we supposed to test 1Z?
The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
No Galciv for me either. Was available yesterday not available today.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I do not have it either I even installed the DM on another machine but I can not see Galactic Civilization.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Well crap that is obnoxious. I'm sure they'll have it fixed by tomorrow.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Have you updated DGM as in the thread: http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?id=5606 ?

Download and replace the drengin.exe file as in T-man's post in the end. Does that improve the situation for you?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
It's disappeared for me as well.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Tried to replace the drengin.exe file, still don't see the update. I think it may be a problem on their servers. I was trying to redownload the whole game before the 1Z came out and I kept getting script errors for GalCiv and Stellar Frontier.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Using this DGM update, the same symptoms appear here.

What seems to be the cause: After looking in the %DGM%\data\gc1 directory, the gc1_Multimedia.xml file is exactly 11 bytes, which is too low for a properly formatted blank XML page, much less one with actual data.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
works on both my machines as well.

Paul.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
Make that two more machines with the DGM udate installed, but no GC showing. (:(
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
I see both GC and MM update but no 1Z available.
I suppose Brad removed it to fix.

A lot of SDS0004 while downloading MM. UPRace005.bi_ is not found in the server :(
Can anyone (Pat?) why we get all those SDS0004?
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
Has anybody found out why GC is not seen anymore ?

I do not think it has anything to do with the DGM update
and please give us a break we have been playing GC so we should know show Beta has to be clicked.
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
lost access to the GalCiv beta when i patched to the latest build of DGM which is being worked on to sort out the SDS0004 bug - isn't computer programming fun T-man?
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
Just tried a fresh install of DGM version .66b on a brand new machine and still no Galciv. Everything else, including B.U.G.S. shows up just fine.

It crossed my mind that it might have been OS related as my primary machine is running Windows 2000 but the new machine is running XP and I get the same behavior.

At this point it pretty much has to be something on the Stardock server end of things.
Sigh
Magus
Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top
lol right in the middle of a fresh install!! wonder if its worth carrying on ;)
Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top
AHHHH! Ok, looking into the problem.
Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, It should be available again.

If for some reason if its not showing for you then delete the Drengin folder that is in your system temp directory and try again.
Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top
Success. For those with inquiring minds...can you tell us what the problem was?
Thanks
Magus
Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top
bu**er

It's back but I am gettin a runtime error 53

File not found c:\program files\dregin.net\data\gc1\gcmodule.gif

then a windows (yellow triange!) crash and DGM crashed out at least safely to desktop.

should i do another fresh install?
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
Now I'm getting an "Error: SDS0004 - Could not retreive . . ." message when I try to update. :notsure:
Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm not sure what causes that. It's extremely frustrating. :VOMIT:
Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes its been frusting for me as well. But I think I just took a step closer at getting it fixed.

Magus - The server code decided all by itself to convert a database value from "True" and "False" to 0 and -1. When Brad updated GalCiv that caused it to be hidden.