David Holmes

Reply to Espionage/Trading in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Espionage is fairly rubbish on this game anyway, theres little or no depth to it. About all you can do is sus out the oppositions ships and colonies and then do absolutely nothing else, it even tells you not to waste any more money on it as you've got all you can get. A few more options would have been welcome, such as. A deliberate attempt to steal tech. A destabilise option to remove an inconvenient alliance. Sabotage. Ship theft.

Reply to Game crashes immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Finally got the game to work, so thanks for the pointers, I'm using the Omega 3.8.231 driver for my ATI card. Well it worked for so long anyway, I took a break, came back and was faced with exactly the same problem, I just don't get it with this game, what is it about the graphics (probably) that are so complex that they can reduce a system that runs Doom 3 with no slowdown to a crashing halt requiring the pressing of the reset button? All my drivers are up to date, I have 2 gig of DD

Reply to Game crashes immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the help, I am making some progress with the game in window-mode, the problem does seem to be with the graphics side of things (an ATI Radeon x750 - pci-e card) I can now get to various screens but sooner or later (so far) my pc just locks up completelyand I have to hit the reset button to restart the machine. Its still very frustrating and although I have no wish to request my money back at the moment my thoughts are heading in that direction. Has anyone else had problems with cataly

Game crashes immediately in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Debug. Debug Message: Version v1.1 BETA 4B last updated on: Thu Apr 20 15:53:54 2006 Debug Message: Could not find a TGN Serial No. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 4/24/2006, 20:07:04 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: COMPUTER Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) L