I am beginning to think GC3 has a memory leak. When I started GC3 up my total RAM usage was only 3.8G. After exiting, restarting, and reloading a saved game from within a game, my total RAM is now 4.8G. SHOWMEM showed, and continues to show a total pool size of 385M. I think I need a way to find out where the OS has assigned memory.
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="12" id="3475627"] Silly me! I did not notice a gray slanted line in the backround of the mini map until now. So I do have it as well, is there something I should do?[/quote] Mini-map??? We have been talking about the main map.
[quote who="Larsenex" reply="9" id="3475588"] How can I create and get you a debug.err?[/quote] The game creates the debug.err file while you are playing the game. The file is quite large, so it is not a good idea to cut and past it here (although that will work). Using DropBox is a better, faster, and more convenient way. You can find a free offer for DropBox at www.dropbox.com Once you have completed the setup for DropBox copy the d
Camera angle also affects this condition. If I am looking at the galaxy from directly above the lines go away (with bloom and ambient occlusion disabled).
The post titled Horizontal lines as well. one more photo try is a better thread for this issue. The symptoms are identical and there is more information there.
Here is my debug.err .
Here is another screenshot showing the lines for two empires. Mine is blue, the Drengin's is red. This implies that the color of the lines is related to the empire owning the ZOI. I used DropBox for this one and it was very easy and convenient.
Larsenex, I am glad you managed to get a picture of this onto the forum. It is exactly like what I reported in "Strange horizontal lines .." but I was unable to figure out how to add a snapshot to my post. My problem is also with a GeForce GT 6xx product line (mine is the GT 640 with 16G). The entire series uses the same driver. There are some differences, however. 1) What level d
When I updated my GPU driver (NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Driver Date/Size: 6/12/2014 19:47:35, 17553032 bytes), I started getting extraneous horizontal lines on the main map centered generally on my Zone of Influence. This happened at several resolutions in windowed mode and in full screen mode. I found that turning off both "enable bloom" and "enable ambient occlusion". If either of these are on the lines return. I am aware that this could be a problem with either the driver o
[quote who="Larsenex" reply="1" id="3475299"] I have heard no mention of the Gal Civ II style of mining stations at all. I believe that entire method of gathering resources is now superseded by the new way of planting a star base near some resources and it will now 'harvest' said resources ...all of them. I have not seen anything for asteroids. I would think that a star base will eventually harvest those somehow. <b
Come on guys. Star Wars is fiction. Battle Star Galactica is fiction. Star Trek is fiction. Each hedged on science to enhance the enjoyability of their story from time to time. And you can see more of this in David Webber's "Honor Harrington" series, where, even though he used a great deal of scientific information to support his stories, he too found he had to hedged with science slightly to keep the reader's focus on his story. As long as the hedging isn't so bad that it
[quote who="Rand Johnson" reply="24" id="3475021"]And anything that can go right will go right...[/quote] I have never heard this extension of Murphy's Law before, but if you have a reference point I can start from I would enjoy tracing it back to understand how it developed.
[quote who="AuraBoy" reply="2" id="3474980"]I think it would be alot easier for lower skill levels (like myself lol). I suppose it could be automated if you didn't want to deal with it. But you just pick from a chart/tree which things you would like your spy to focus on next.[/quote] One of the things I find overwhelming about a game I am new to is how to use (exploit?) the many differing mechanics of the game. While I am not advocating a "tutorial" (I have found these to be much
[quote quoting="post"] Hello Everyone! I just downloaded the Alpha Edition of Galactic Civilization III. Like what I see so far but I do have one request. Can the start up script be adjusted to require thick rings around Saturn and can the editable terrain on Earth be limited to land tiles? I would also ask that Greenland not be one of the tiles, not to knock Greenland as I'm sure it's a great place, but it should not take precedence over the main co
If something like this is implemented, could it be optional for lower skill levels? It sounds like a major game element that may take time to learn how to deal with. This may also be a good idea for any major part of any game like the GC series that has a lot of major parts.
[quote who="lowell4" reply="18" id="3474627"] I noticed an update yesterday. After it was done, I checked and it had turned off the Alpha testing in the beta test tab area. I paid a hundred bucks...I sure hope I get the new Alpha and Beta loads. Inside Steam options, the Alpha test link is missing.[/quote] I think the "live streaming" from yesterday (Friday, June 20) may explain what happened, or at least part of it. During the broadcast Paul said they had found a serious bug at
All of the menu tabs should have text in them although some of them will be greyed out. Several people reported this problem at the very first release of the alpha and their problems were solved by upgrading their GPU drivers. There is a support FAQ that covers checking what level your GPU driver is and getting upgrades. In any case, knowing the particulars about your graphics card (make and model) and driver (level and date) are e
The above has gotten me thinking, always a bad thing to do. 1). I think the FOW we have in Alpha 2 could very well be a place holder, perhaps even one that may have to remain until one of the DLC's is produced. I think coming up with an FOW that is unique (or at least not so dated) and makes sense within a space game will take a lot of thought, work, and time. 2). I think that the idea that we don't even know wh
[quote who="erischild" reply="45" id="3473181"] I must be weird. I seem to be the only person who actually enjoyed and agreed with the Influence mechanic and concept in GC2.[/quote] Not true. I also liked it.
[quote who="erischild" reply="9" id="3472465"] I have been thinking about it and I am more against this idea than I was before. It strikes me that GalCiv 2 effectively makes the concept of vast interstellar an actual game mechanism that affects decisions. It is a part of what makes GalCiv a successful game tor me. Distance matters.[/quote] I'll add that this has been true since the early 1990s when CalCiv for OS2 first came out. It is, and has been, such an
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Ops. I left out the word "many" as in "Memory in many laptops and desktops ....". Perhaps this only applies to higher end machines as well. I know it is true of the HP and Lenovo machines I have seen. And if the machine is advertised as expandable in memory, then .... But as we both said, the research must be done.
The shipyard and the ship designer look like the same thing except that the shipyard, since it is accessed from within a game, is restricted by what tech has been researched within the game and the ship designer, if you want my guess, probably will not, which looks a lot like it was on GC2.
[quote who="Achronous" reply="2" id="3471147"]How about performance? I know people tend to stick with certain sets of drivers instead of updating all the time as they provide better performance in games than others. I didn't update mine for a while because of this.[/quote] I can understand the caution you exercise about drivers, because some people have been burned in the distant past with faulty updates. In my experience this happens rarely. When involved in a Beta test (and Alph
[quote quoting="post"] I have seen a lot of posts on them but have not had a game last long enough to path down the trees. Are shipyards in game and I am just missing the tech to unlock them? [/quote] It looks like you are talking about "spaceports" which we are hoping to see the first of in Alpha 3, as avatar137 said. Or, are you talking about designing ships ("Ship Designer" from the startup menu (currently greyed out with tooltip
Only 5? Are you talking about on a tiny galaxy? On a small galaxy I have built as many as 15. And the support in build 0.20 is still quite primitive and simply there to prove the support mechanics. They have announced that the first Beta build will have almost all of the final release features in it. By reading between the lines in the tentative schedule posted by Frogboy, it looks like we will see much more for starbases in Alph