Meaty Miltsniff

Reply to Game Crashes in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

i just finished my first game and had two crashes toward the end. first time i clicked on a trade route ship and the program ended with no report of error. 2nd time - i had just conquered the last major race and hit the turn button - to no avail. i also couldn't shift the galaxy map more than a few pixels. the turn button had turn into a circle with a slash through it. i killed the program, reloaded to a few turn earlier (luckily) and completed the game. btw, one of the minor races e

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

i can't pre-order, not after the moo3 debacle. but my interest in mom2 is very high!

Reply to re poll: Would you pre-order on-line a Master of Magic 2? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

i can't pre-order, not after the moo3 debacle. but my interest in mom2 is very high!

Reply to bad video? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

added 256 ram and 32 meg video card (replacing empty space!) seems to work now. damn green rock hatched and ate my ship! wheee!

Reply to bad video? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

well it may be video ram (don't know if i have any) regular ram (128 currently) already downloaded and installed bink tools, but couldn't figger out how to use them... i just may get me some more ram (both kinds) i'll update as things happen, thanks to you both!

bad video? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

i just got the game friday and have not been able to play. after some intro screens, i get multicolored dotted not-quite-horizontal lines and here something that sounds like a high tech door opening. i've read faq's, downloaded and installed updates (and bink tools), ran dxdiag (no problems) and killed as many TSRs as i could. my fairly recent winxp system won't go above 1024X768 (old 'arcus' monitor). is there a minimum resoulution to galciv? do i need more video ram (and how do