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Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

Dan you are indeed the man, you are right, I am a proffesional Bull Shitter. You get a gold star. I make shit up all the time to feel powerful, knowlegable, and in controll all the time. I need help Dan, Can you help me? I'm guessing you are a former Bull Shitter that got better. Perhaps you can provide a twelve step program to my recovery? What I said earlier I made up. I didn't actually want to help people to have a good experience. I was just trying to finicialy ruin gaspowe

Reply to Supreme Commander or Command & Conquer 3 :Tiberium Wars ? in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

For those of you who didn't like TA then your probably not going to like SupCom.

Reply to Spore in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

Spore is like combining the sims2 with sim earth and RTS elements. The early stages are over in about 3-4 hours and the space aspect is the predominant feature. You need to be able to go online in order to fully populate your Galaxy with hundreds of thousand of worlds to find and visit,annihilate, or takeover. you can also play online and actually contact live users and their worlds when you visit them (at least this was the original plan but Will said they were still working out the details at

Reply to Supreme Commander, Crashes, BSoDs, and general unhappiness, ANYONE ELSE? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Not to condone cracking....but have you tried a cracked exe? It's amazing how securom can fubar things. I'm sorry you are having such issues. I'd be pretty dissapointed if I were in your shoes. Hopefully gpg figures it out.

Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

Dan I understand what you are saying but what you are saying is not actually based on fact related to Supreme Commander. You obviously are extrapolating information based on your own personal experience with the game and your rig. I however am taking information from several benchmark sites, reviews, Statements by the Devs, The gpg forums, and personal experience. Fact 1: IF you want good performance, It has been said from numerous sources that you will NEED a Dual core or quad

Reply to Supreme Commander, Crashes, BSoDs, and general unhappiness, ANYONE ELSE? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Well I did have that problem, but form me the cause is somewhat related to drivers. If I played Oblivion before a session of SC then it would crash. If I don't do that then I can play without issue. So something is up with the nvidia drivers and the way the game uses them. after you uninstall: basically you need to make sure the gaspowered games folder is deleted in the document and settings, applications. Also clear out your temp folder as there are a couple of things there too. af

Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for cussing me out... I really needed that since I haven't had a good cussing out in ages...damn that felt good ..no really man thanks! YOU ROCK! It's amazing that you can get it to run with anything above 12fps on that ancient rig of yours. I'm impressed. Feel free to post on Gas Powered Games forums and explain to everyone how it is that you can run the game just fine since people with far more powerful systems seem to be having trouble.I'm sure the developers would like to kno

Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

It's an awsome game. Best epic RTS I've played since...well Total Annihilation. If you like Total Annihilation, then this game is a must buy. If you hated it then this game won't change your mind. This game really focuses on strategy on an epic scale. litterly 1000's of units at your command. Everything is simulated, so fighters dog fight ships turrets rotate and elevate then fire lobbing a shell in a caculated trajectory...etc.. it's very detailed.There are a ridiculous number

Reply to Five Reasons Windows Vista is good for gaming! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks for the Tom's Hardware link. Yep, as you can see from their review, ALL graphics/video/sound developers should avoid Vista like the plague for the time being. Business users though could find things to love when they upgrade their office systems. Currently it seems vista is a enthusiasts nightmare. Probably as intended too sadly. Microsoft wanted to make sure those pesky enthusiasts are kept under control. Perhaps in a couple of years Vista will be evolved throu

Reply to Five Reasons Windows Vista is good for gaming! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Vista does have numerous legitmate concerns for most tech savy and profesional users. It seems microsoft was looking to only make two types of customers happy at launch. 1. the non tech savy that will buy it because it is the new shiny...and because Crysis will look so sweet on dx10 (for the ones that know what dx10 is). 2. Large corporations looking to have more control over employees and data. Microsoft has pretty much chosen to piss off everyone else. Soft

Reply to When does the Tactical Screen ever show up? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

well... his name IS wheel of fire...

Reply to IDEA THREAD in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I'm telling ya, KITCHEN freakin SINK. No game is complete without it.

Reply to Some things I would like to see in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Because ...you know NOTHING makes a strategy game better than to have global warming simulated in it. Hey Brad stop working on those cool features in DA and get to work on the Global warming simulator. We NEEED that STAT! Because what is the far future without crippling Global warming produced by far superior technology? Terrans getting the Global Warming super ability would be soooo cool... Personally I was wanting a kitchen sink feature. Cause then I could say, Hey Galciv has

Reply to _incredibly_ slow downloading in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I get the same problem as well. My connection can do almost 2megs a second (fiber optic) and I usually get downloads from stardock in the bytes per second. I found that if you are getting a slow connection speed for downloading from stardock, then you need to hit cancel and retry. After doing this for about 20 times you will finally get your max download speed. My guess is that there are to many connections to the servers and its slowing you down. Just keep retrying untill you get a good connect

Reply to Any way to speed up Stardock Central? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I seem to have problems with stardock central download speeds as well. Sometimes my full bandwidth is used and most of the time it isn't. I have a 15 megabit fiber optic connection that isn't shared. I can usually get 1.2 + megabytes per second. I have noticed that sometimes with stardock central you just have to keep retrying at different times of the day for a few days until you can download at your maximum capacity. It's also possible that there is a bottleneck somewhere along your c

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: The Post Mortem in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Never "force" a user to do something like install new drivers to play your product. There may be legitimate reasons why they refuse to upgrade them. Example: Alias (now Autodesk) Maya7 users (3d program) have issues with using the newer nvidia drivers. The only drivers that currently work well with this important application are the 7x.xx version drivers. The 8x.xx drivers have alot of issues. Oh and 7x.xx drivers work great with all games b

Reply to Awe... what happened to the Stardock sucks post? That was pretty funny! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

WTF?! no multiplayer?!!! and the games still brokes. I downloaded the latest patch and now it won'tz works. I hve grphx problems but don't think I should have to update my drivers things again I already did taht!!!!1111 Stardosck sux0rs! 4 real. Glad I downloaded da game from starforce's website for free !!!!! russians rox. <b

Reply to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Adventure GalCiv2 Forums

I've been fortunate with the crashes. Only get them once in awhile. Usually when closing the program or moving between zones (rarely crashes but does sometimes while loading a zone). Bethseda is working on a patch but they don't have an eta just yet. (I've noticed that your system must be defraged well in order for the game to function properly, very sensitive to file fragmentation). Try these mods with your game: combat behavior<

Reply to Do not download the second Beta 1.1!!! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Unfortunately lots of kids out there don't understand what the term Alpha or Beta means in software releases. NeverWinter Nights releases beta builds all the time of their patches, but of course tons of kids download it anyways then bitch about how it doesn't work and how horrible Bioware is. Pure comedy really. Other forums are moderated and delete posts like this but oh well. Now if the beta reformated your system then maybe he would have

Reply to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Adventure GalCiv2 Forums

200hrs of game play is alot...most people just don't realize just how much it is.(baulders gate2 and it's expansion equaled about 200hours if you were meticulous. Most people will probably never do or see everything. Also this number doesn't take into account all the free form sandbox stuff you can do in the game. Nor does it take account of the alternate paths in quests. so like morrowind or Deus Ex, this game will be played over and over until the n

Reply to PC Gamer gives Oblivion a 4 page, 16 screenshot review, Galciv2 gets 1 PAGE????? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Oblivion is great and there are already mods to tweak the game play the way you want it. Frankly while Morrowind was great, Oblivion is just a much better overall experience. Oh, and Oblivion is 4x as big as morrowind. It's 16 square miles (well its actually more than that due to all the elevation changes. and thats not counting the milage for the plane of oblivion or cave/ruins etc...) On horse back it still takes along time to get from one

Reply to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Adventure GalCiv2 Forums

Oblivion, while not perfect (hey what game is?) is still a master piece any gamer should have. It's truly a wonderful experience, and man...I waste so much time enjoying the scenery. It's blissfull. 16 square miles is alot to cover. its about 4 times bigger than morrowind was and it's alot richer in live and vibrancy. Oh and there is no copy protection other than a simple cd check so back it up all you want. You probably should not get the p

Reply to Really hate CD copy protection today in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Well drm was never about Piracy. It's always been about control over wallets. In the future the Riaa will run the government and give itself free access to your bank accounts... Oblivion only does simple cd checks if you have the dvd version. The Direct2Drive version doesn't really have any protection other than intial activation. Brad what

Reply to 800x600 HELP! in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

800x600 max?! ...that would make your monitor like ...12 years old or so to have that kind of limitation. The minimum resolution for the game is 1024x768...which has been the standard resolution for at least 10 years. Please buy yourself a new monitor...I'm amazed it actually hasn't blown out yet.

Reply to Frustrated in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well to be honest I found stardocks setup pretty straight forward in comparison to others. That said... You probably are not the type that would ever deal well with digitaly distributed software. Yes it should be easier and more hassle free but it's not. It's been this way for a long long time. I went through hell and back to just get Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion off of Direct2Drive (for those wondering, there is no real copy prote