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Reply to Beta 1 Stability Report in Demigod Beta Feedback Demigod Forums

I have played 4 games, 1280x1024. Looked very good, played smoothly, no stability problems: Q6600 4gb Ram Radeon x1950pro

Reply to Collection of UI/controls suggestions - updated on april 26th in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I would like for holding middle mouse button to allow rotation and tilt, which is a standard amongst many RTS games and works very well in my opinion. I think demigods should have an icon (player-customizable logo?) floating above their head that indicates friend or foe somehow (coloured circle around the edge?). This could be used for selection and for targetting attacks on. There does not appear to be any indication of auras. I would like to see auras represented

Reply to Targeting & UI Suggestions in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I find it difficult to tell whether a demigod is friend or foe, and also to target one. I think demigods should have an icon (player-customizable logo?) floating above their head that indicates friend or foe somehow (coloured circle around the edge?). This could be used for selection and for targetting attacks on.

Reply to buyout when dead in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I agree with the shopping and skill selection while dead, would be very useful. Actually I don't like having physical shops on the map at all, I find it a bit fiddly. I would prefer it to be a page you can bring up like skill selection. To stop people from just buying use items mid-battle, it should probably only be enabled while dead or while healing.

Reply to Know a great RPG? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Whoops, missed the last year bit, well I'll give you a year and a bit. Well this is a bit depressing, according to GameRankings there were 10 PC RPGs released in the past 12 months. 3 of them were rubbish (Loki, Two Worlds, HellGate:London) - although I didn't play the first two so I'm just going by the reviews there. 4 of them were MMORPGS, meh. 3 of them were Mass Effect, The Witcher, and NWN2 - Mask of the Betrayer. Have you tried Oblivion yet? Very good game, plus the S

Reply to Know a great RPG? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Knights of the Old Republic has already been mentioned, but I'll second it, great game. To be honest just about anything Bioware have done is worth a look at. Since you liked Vampire Bloodlines, you might enjoy Arcanum, which was made by the same company (Troika, now sadly bust). Again, older, top-down isometric graphics, but still a lot of fun. The Witcher was kind of a shame. There's a really good game in there, if only they'd left out the grind quests. Plus the final plo

Reply to To 64bit or not to 64bit (need some advice) in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Have been running Vista 64 for about 6 months. I still find there are troubles with driver support. 3 devices: bluetooth dongle, wifi dongle, TV tuner card, two bought this year, the TV card a few years old. The manufacturers did not provide 64-bit support, but I was able to find alternative drivers from other manufacturers who used the same chipset. You won't see much in the way performance benefits yet, optimisation still needs to be done. You can address up to 3GB

Reply to Vista? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

I've been using Vista 64 for about half a year now, so some thoughts on things I've noticed: The 64-bit version has quite bad driver support in some cases, the normal version has thankfully outgrown this problem. The manufacturers of my wifi dongle, bluetooth dongle and my TV card don't provide 64-bit drivers, and I had to find drivers from alternative vendors which used the same chipset. It has better security than XP. Crashes are pretty rare and tend to only bring down the

Reply to NVIDIA trumpets the death of the CPU in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Well there are a few problems with that: graphics embedded in motherboards is much lower performance than discrete graphics cards. Similarly, system RAM is much slower than graphics RAM, and the path from CPU to your system memory is still much less effective than that on a graphics card. Graphics relies very heavily on memory bandwidth. I like the idea of integrating a GPU into a multicore processor, but it's probably going to start out as just improved performance for the baseline.

Reply to Programs need to play nicely with protection. in Personal Computing GalCiv2 Forums

I had Encyclopedia Britannica on CD fail to install because of Norton Antivirus. By that point it was already well on its way to being that little program that's so smart it thinks it should be in control of everything about your computer. Haven't been back to that sort of virus scanner since. Have a couple of anti-spyware things and Clamwin which I use to scan a couple of times a year when I can be bothered and never picks up anything. I do use Netlimiter as a firewall though

Reply to NVIDIA trumpets the death of the CPU in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

One thing to bear in mind is that all the graphics card reviews now seem to focus on 1900x1200 and top performance GPUs. Lower (and more relevant for most people) resolutions mean that the CPU performance becomes a bigger factor. Although I think for most gamers any modern dual core would be nice and they won't need any more for a while unless they want to play Supreme Commander.

Reply to Gaming Computer in Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

It kind of depends what sort of games your son likes to play, and how nice he wants the graphics to look. The high end of computer components does exist mostly for gamers. WoW is not very graphically demanding. He probably doesn't need Vista. I don't expect many games to require Vista over the next two or three years. There are a couple of them from Microsoft - their attmept to push people into getting Vista - but they're nothing special anyway. He doesn't need 3 gigabytes

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

1) Turn down the invasion screen sounds. If I'm playing at night and its quiet, they're too loud and not actually very nice sounds, so it kind of grates and I skip the invasion screen as quickly as I can. 2) Revert the invasion screen to the old version, it was more interesting, and cleaner (easier to understand what was happening). 3) Multiple constructor modules on a ship. 4) When you add a module to a ship, don't switch away from the module tab. This gets kind of

Reply to So, who will be joining the beta? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]Wish I was. Its not worth $45 for a low frame rate and low graphics... I'll definitely get Demigod when I get a new computer (whether thats another beta, like sins had a few, or if its the final release).[/quote] I asked about this over on the Stardock/Galciv forums a while back, and they said that Gas Powered had said that he said that she said that this game is going to run a lot faster than Supreme Commander did. I'm guessing this is some combination of them tweaking

Reply to The post-Twilight road map in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Thank you Stardock, I have been waiting too long for a good, polished, up-to-date fantasy strategy game, and I think you are the guys to do it. Age of Wonders and HoMaM 5 leave my cold, whereas I still load-up MOM every year or so. But you know, if you really want my heart (and my wallet), then you need to have a long, hard think about X-Com.

Reply to ANN: Stardock to publish Demigod from Gas Powered Games in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]45 kryo * * Member No.662,525 April 9, 2008 21:36:38 Do you think you Stardock guys could have a word with GPG about system requirements? They've been working on the engine a lot since then and have told us that it runs a lot better now. [Commander] [5 Game Winner] [Over 5 Battles] [Very Evil] [Obscene][/quote] That is exactly what I wanted to hear. I have just gotten my greasy mits on the Impulse beta, and

Reply to ANN: Stardock to publish Demigod from Gas Powered Games in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Good news to me, Demigod looks interesting. Do you think you Stardock guys could have a word with GPG about system requirements? Supreme Commander needs a quad-core to run a whole game smoothly with 8 players, and that isn't really an acceptable requirement for 2008, it certainly wasn't for 2007, and it'll still be cutting the game off from a fair chunk of the market in 2009.

Reply to Why don't I go to the GDC? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

You guys certainly don't seem to be outsiders when it comes to the main online review sites, who have all been giving out the Stardock love. I guess the intended benefits of such conferences would be to exchange ideas, learn about new techniques and new tools, possibly do some scouting for recruits or partners. But, if its not serving your needs, then leave it. Alternatively the whole thing might just be one big love-in funded by marketting dollars. Who knows, I've never been.

Crash on startup - suspect installation problem. in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm having a crash to desktop problem on starting up Twilight of the Arnor. This used to happen from the start menu link, but not when launching from Stardock Central. Today I patched Twilight and now it is crashing from Stardock Central as well (I suspect because it opens a launcher now). Anyway, looking at debug.err, the problem is fairly obvious. I have had to uninstall and reinstall GalCiv 2 a couple of times on this machine, and at some point I changed directories. Launching th

Reply to Thoughts on invasion screen - not good in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't finished downloading the latest beta yet, so ignore this if its irrelevant now. But, the sounds for the invasion screen are truly awful. Pew pew pew, very harsh and too loud (which I suppose is realistic for gunfire). Means I hit skip as soon as I can every invasion.

Reply to Ten New Years Resolutions for the Game Industry in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Now I can't help wondering Jack Thompson plays games. If he doesn't, then its surely time someone got him addicted to something (something electronic). I don't think Planescape should have a sequel as such. I would like to see another game in the setting - although that would tie it to D&D and for my money D&D rules don't work very well as a computer game system. A shame since there's such a wealth of content there. Failing that, an emphasis on good story writing and significant, in

Reply to How radical should expansion packs get? in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I have bought the expansions so far and would continue to do so if they keep providing good value. One option a lot of companies do is release their expansion packs as a stand alone game (or slightly reduced), for example Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, the Dawn of War expansions, and the annual version of Football Manager/Fifa/every other sports game. It would avoid your problem of being limited to your existing user-base. In some ways its a bit of a cheeky tactic, but

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar for Strategy Game of the Year in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Supreme Commander is a really good game in a lot of ways, and a real step forward for RTS (I see Sins of a Solar Empire has taken a lot of lessons from it). But, I voted for GalCiv because it actually runs properly on my computer. SupCom will only be a truly great strategy game next year when people have the hardware for it. Love all the Total War games as well, but for whatever reason Kingdoms hasn't taken up as much of my time as Galciv by a long stretch. Shall have to go back to i

Reply to REALLY nasty AI! in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

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Reply to So what game do you want Stardock to work on next? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

If StarDock were to begin developing an RPG now, would that drop them head to head with Bioware's Dragon Age? What about Fallout 3? I love RPGs, especially stuff like Baldurs Gate and Torment. Thing is, while a lot of Gal Civ 2's diplomacy and technology descriptions are quite witty, the main campaign story is...well...maybe its just rushed. Just bear in mind that you need some people capable of churning out really good written language on demand. You'll know if you've got them I gu