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Reply to galciv 3 non steam in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Belanos" reply="14" id="3495447"] Better yet, in this case, would be a warning when someone is trying to actually install it that the OS doesn't meet the requirements. No point in spending the time trying to put it on your system in the first place if it's not going to work. [/quote] Better yet would be a check by Steam to see if you have the pre-reqs or not before you paid for it. But then, that would be a requirement on Steam, and can anyone get them to

Reply to galciv 3 non steam in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I would like to repeat, and emphasize, a previous request I made to have GC3 report in a window before going down any time it is started on a system that does not meet the minimum operating criteria. A 32bit operating system is certainly one case of many. Knowing why it won't run on one's system is much better than having someone screaming and cussing about how bad your product is.

Reply to Problem with save the game in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

What have you tried? What is missing where? I can't even tell if the reason I can't get a handle on what your problem is might be one of language barrier because your profile doesn't say where you are from. BTW, the Steam version of GC III is the ONLY version there is.

Reply to God Rays in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I think if they were toggled, then some will find the extremes of on/off would be unsatisfying, I think if I had a slider for them I would be able to find a level that looked "right" to me.

Reply to Somewhat bummed out - question... in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="sgsmitty64" reply="2" id="3494067"] so I guess everyone is having poor FPS regardless of GPU? [/quote] Not true. I have a GT 640 and get frame rates much higher than that (39-40). I also have GeForce driver level 340.52, release date of 7/29/2014, which is the same driver you should have, since it supports both of our GPUs.

Reply to God Rays in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Please be very careful about such special affects, or with wishing for them. You may be very sorry if you get what you wish for, "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: Into Darkness" went so far overboard with the idea of light reflections and refractions that they made the movies a pain to watch.

Reply to Excessive memory and processor usage on Main Screen in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

Don't forget that they have lots of debugging code in there that will be removed when the game is released. Also, I have seen the same thing with Civ 5, which, at the moment, uses more system resources than GC3 does, Some of the CPU, GPU, and memory usage you are seeing on the main menu screen is all of the motion in the graphics. It isn't just a picture, It is animated (just watch the clouds for a few seconds).

Reply to Space Mines in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

There was a whole lot of acrimonious discussion about this some time ago, with some having very strong feelings for, and some having very strong feelings against. StarDock didn't say a thing about possibilities, but you can be sure that they paid attention. Truth to say, I'd just as soon not see this debate started up again.

Reply to 3 questions from Stardock to you in GalCiv III Dev Journals GalCiv3 Forums

1). The more ways of diplomacy in the game the better. 2). Number of turns? As long as a game stays interesting the longer I can play a game. 1000 turns? 10,000 turns? 100,000 turns? Sure, as long as it doesn't reach a point of obvious conclusion until near the last few turns, and the difficulty of play is relatively constant throughout the game. 3). Bad? fixed story lines, like Star Craft, Ages of Empires, etc. Simple games like one person shooters, &n

Reply to Tech Licensing? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

So what happens if the empire you enter into a license agreement declares war on you? As you said, there is no way to force them to forget the licensed tech. It seems you are just plain out of luck here, which is what makes this idea so appealing. (And so true to real life.)

Reply to What is difference between Tech Trading and Tech Brokering? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

So you are also saying that if you sell me a warship I can't reverse engineer it to get the techs used to build that ship. GC isn't the only game that has had trouble with "tech spread", but I don't think disabling Tech Brokering is a valid way to suppress it. I don't think it should be suppressed at all. It sounds too unreal. Which is probably why they made it a toggled option in the first place.

Reply to What is difference between Tech Trading and Tech Brokering? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Thecw" reply="11" id="3493268"] The party who wants it can get it from you, as long that you have researched it. If you got it through trade yourself, then you can not trade it to that party. So it is not that party that needs to have researched it, but you. [/quote] What you are saying is that if I didn't research "automobiles" or some component there of, I could not sell the car I bought from a new car dealer (a trade of money for the car) to someone else.<

Reply to How to make an avatar on the forums with only using non extra windows features that come with every windows computer. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Folgra1" reply="17" id="3493234"] It would be nice if stardock was like some other forums that have a selection of avatars to select from. Makes life sooo much easier. [/quote] Except when you have something specific in mind that you want for your Avatar. Your originality of thought would make it certain that what you want probably wouldn't be available.

Reply to What is difference between Tech Trading and Tech Brokering? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="5" id="3493257"] Is it just me, or am I seeing a contradiction in definitions? Perhaps Gilmoy has it the only way it could be. T: "I'll trade you 'Beam Weapons" for 'Missiles.'" A: "Since you have not researched 'Missiles' we can not trade them to you. You will have to get a broker." [/quote] Edit: Further complicating the issue is how

Reply to What is difference between Tech Trading and Tech Brokering? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Is it just me, or am I seeing a contradiction in definitions? Perhaps Gilmoy has it the only way it could be. T: "I'll trade you 'Beam Weapons" for 'Missiles.'" A: "Since you have not researched 'Missiles' we can not trade them to you. You will have to get a broker."

Reply to 11 SEP Update in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="3" id="3493062"] Last week was a beta run of the update where you could opt in. Which apparently you are opted in. This week is the official release of an update to the main Beta. No changes were made between the two. [/quote] And yet when I check the "last modified" dates of the files, I find a few dated 09/11/2014. These are files that can only be obtained via Steam, so something had to have changed between 9/2 and 9/11.

Reply to Crash Error in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="1" id="3492693"] I just saw this same error, a crash when creating a starbase as Iridium Corporation. The debug.err says that a crash report was uploaded to Steam. My debug.err is here. [/quote] And yet I have been told repeatedly that SteamWorks doesn't handle crash reporting for 64bit games (I guess it is still in the works). The only way

Reply to Post Questions for 9/12 Dev. Stream Here in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Surge72" reply="10" id="3492477"] Quoting parrottmath, reply 1 I think you mean 9/12 I think you mean 12/9 [e digicons]:P[/e] [/quote] And now we get into the correctness of the European (mm/dd) vs the US (dd/mm) method of specifying dates. I

Reply to Reproduction in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="2" id="3492472"] I could see that for the Torians (it's how I envision them already), but the Drengin!? You wouldn't happen to have a link to one of those statements by Frogboy, would you? [/quote] Since this dates back to when he was building the original OS/2 versions, and the forums were on IBM owned systems (back in the early 1990s IBM was promoting OS/2 and was supporting the development of lots of products for OS/2 by outside devel

Shipyards should be able to upgrade the ships being built. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

It is very easy (at a cost) to upgrade ships to newer levels in the field, but why must we wait for a ship to be built before we can upgrade it? Why not allow us to upgrade the ship being constructed, perhaps by adding to the construction time to account for the differing equipment and other parts? (Of course, once a particular hull is laid down, the hull size shouldn't be changed.)

Reply to Reproduction in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

My guess about the Drengins, seeing as FrogBoy has stated many times in the distant past (Brad: do you still feel this way?) about how he wanted them to look like frogs, is that they reproduce more like terrestrial frogs do, and their social makeup is also more like frogs, including being able to change gender as needed.

Reply to Game Crash in ShipYard in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I was getting a lot of CTDs, including this one. Then I went to my Steam library and used the "delete all game content" option and re-installed the game. I have had no problems since. If you try this and it works, please let the Devs know (open a ticket).

Reply to Freezing in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Many with the integrated Intel GPU have had troubles with the drivers as old as yours, and when they found out that there really is a newer driver and upgraded to it, they found it fixed their problems. NOTE: The Intel integrated GPU drivers often refuse to let you upgrade to a newer driver, but there is a "user beware" procedure that seems to work given on the Intel web site.

Reply to Won't run on Surface Pro 3 in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="5" id="3491924"] Update your drivers? [/quote] DARCA has a point, but without knowing what level your drivers are no one can advise you to do so. The post " GalCiv III Support FAQ " has instructions for running DxDiag. Use that to find the level and date of your GPU driver and compare that with the downloadable drivers on the Intel web site.

0.42.1 Survey ships on autosurvey stop after analyzing an anomaly with move points left. in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Survey ships on autosurvey should not stop after analyzing an anomaly but should continue moving towards the next anomaly until all move points are exhausted, just like they did in GC2.