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Diplomacy is no fun in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Let me start by saying Sins is a great game. I've had lots of fun playing it and I feel like I'm just getting started (good replay value). But to me, the diplomacy option of the game is just not fun. Establishing and keeping good relationships with AI players is tedious and boring. I'll be working on some strategic goal, only to be interrupted by a request to destroy 5 of whatever. Sure you can ignore the requests, but then it always ends up with

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Diagonal scrolling when the mouse is over/near the corners. Just started playing and I keep getting caught by this. Its a small thing that really bugs me.

Reply to Constant Crashing in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Is there anything I can do to help you figure out what GalCiv2 is doing that runs into this driver/hardware bug? There is probably a workaround since other games are fine. It wouldn't be Windows if there weren't lots of potholes to avoid The good news is that this is very easy to repro, so it might be easy to find and fix. In my own game the issue was an incorrect use of a DX surface

Forum Bug in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

When I click "Edit" on any of my posts in this thread other than the last one I get the Asp.Net exception below. Link 4 Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Syste

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Is there a debug build or some way I can run the game with trace logging enabled? Might be informative to know what happens just before the crash.

Reply to Constant Crashing in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

BSOD is a definite hardware. No software product should be able to cause a BSOD as they run at ring 3. With all due respect, that is not correct. Kernel mode (ring 0) drivers can cause BSOD without any hardware problems. No user mode software should be able to cause a crash directly, but when they ca

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Thanks for the ideas everyone. But no luck. Still hanging and causing BSODs in the Nvidia driver (nv4_disp.dll) soon after getting to the initial tech screen. Have other people managed to get the game working on an AMD system with a GeForge 7800 GTX graphics card? sam0t : I mentioned in the original post that I have run many other modern games w/o problems. I tried a few of those again last night to make sure nothing changed. They all work fine. Also I can run Prime95 Torture T

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Text from the debug.err file ----------------------------------------------- Debug Message: Version v1.0X.1 last updated on: Mon Mar 6 13:57:14 2006 Debug Message: Could not find a TGN Serial No. Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 3/11/2006, 01:27:40 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: DESKTOP Operating System: Windows XP Professional (

Constant Crashing in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I just purchased GalCiv 2 directly from Stardock and I can't get into my first game without it crashing. When I start a new game, select small galaxy and mostly the defaults, I make it all the way to the "quarterly report". But when I click done on the report, the tech screen comes up and the problem begins. The tech screen plays some music and the graphic spins a bit, and then the audio gets stuck in a stuttering loop and the UI freezes.