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[quote who="tetleytea" reply="17" id="1920462"]After all this has been said, I'm sticking to what I said earlier: if the AI is doing missile weapons at all, get the missile defenses first. At that stage of the game, they'll work fine. Heck, even off-type missile defense works fine. Then get the Hyper Computers and research what you need from there. Also, for these mega-battles, I'm not doing the big, bad ships anyway--I'm doing military starbases and spammin

Reply to Sorting Planets Help. in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

in the colony list, just click on column titles

Reply to run galciv II in windowed mode in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

just look in the options screen under video options, and uncheck "fullscreen" see https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Options for a listing of all options and some details on what does what (not 100% complete)

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alfonse" reply="12" id="1919710"] It might disqualify you from the MetaVerse, but I don't know what law it is breaking.[/quote] in france there's a law against reverse-engineering, that's also the reason why "cracks", so to speak, are not legal

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Server Error 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Reply to I've decided I think star lanes/hyperspace lanes are a good thing for games in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="jstarz01" reply="7" id="1919394"]If you want to create terrain and choke points in this game you can use the map editor and create zones on the map by placing asteroid fields in rows. This might be a little more work but I think you can create the desiered effect.[/quote] lol ... well I find the idea itself quite funny but beyond that, I don't think it would work out well since I think if you own a mine you can pass through it [e digicons]:w00t:[/e] maybe try it o

Reply to Psyonic Weapons in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

@sole soul all in all isn't the"best ship" balanced between weapons and defences ? (not considering research times)

smiley button disappeared ??? in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

hello, just as the title says I'm unable to find the smileys button anymore where there was a drop down list of all smileys ... both IE7 and FF3.03 were tried, along with clearing caches of IE7 though the few smiley codes I know still work like : :) ;) XD :D :p ;p but it's not really related

Reply to SIMS 2 The game that ate my memory! in Off-Topic Stardock Forums

lol, I had a laugh at that so true, so true ;) now hopefully mine's on spore... I just hope they won't do 65546846854 add-ons XD

Reply to MMV - The Mod Metaverse in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I wonder how this would work *raises another eyebrow*

Reply to How do I download patches for a computer not connected to the internet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

if you're clueless as of using the registry, may I suggest to not fiddle with it as doing something wrong there may have unforeseen consequences ... more so since you got another easy solution

Reply to Stardock - My one complaint in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="Alfonse" reply="7" id="1918429"] the devs are too busy working on it to do journals. I think the point he is making is that part of "working on it" should be doing journals.[/quote] I know of no companies which try to do journals and keep players informed as much as stardock ... [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mistralok" reply="10" id="1917988"]I'm a little confused. The title of your post says that you are using 32bit, but the body of your reply implies that you are using 64bit. If you are using XP, then only the PRO version will allow you to address 3gig, and you can do this at 32 bit.[/quote] I'm not talking of the same thing for both values : -in the title, I talk about galciv2 executables which are currently 32bit (and I note that 64 bit recompiling is NO

Reply to Psyonic Weapons in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

correction of myself : the Drath "biosphere modulator" ain't alignment exclusive [e digicons]:-"[/e] *goes out of there discretly* [e digicons]:ninja:[/e] still the point is still valid that there's some races which are more advantaged by being this or that alignment (altarian xeno ethics consist of only good techs) and some others which have very different bonuses depending on their alignment like thalans

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

since I don't really require any support I find it rather weird to email support about it [e digicons]^_^[/e] thanks for the suggestion though

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

well since it seems nobody cares at stardock about this (or at least they didn't voice it) I'll point to a thread explaining the procedure for civilization 4 (same thing just different executable) http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=224178 moderators/admins: feel free to delete or ask me to delete if I'm going too far

Reply to Where's TOA 2.0 ? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="GmOOnii" reply="8" id="1916427"]What is Beta anyway? [/quote] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_version#Beta most useful quote from this article : "Beta testing allows the software to undergo usability testing with users who provide feedback , so that a

Reply to How do I download patches for a computer not connected to the internet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

although copying over directly the folder from one comp to the other might just work (even if some registry settings might be missing) it's better and cleaner to use the "archive" functionnality inside the apps I told you about this will make a "zip" like file of galciv2 which can then be copied over to the other comp, and will allow you to reinstall galciv2 in the way it's meant to be installed [e digicons];)[/e] (it's not really a zip file though, it's

Reply to Psyonic Weapons in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I am generally good but almost always get the "leaning evil" because of colonization events, by the time I research xeno ethics 10bc / turn for 1000 turns is like ... nothing, and even sometimes I can outright pay it BUT I don't always take all evil choices in colonization events because some don't justify the management overhead (aka me, the player, need more time to handle planets with too much specifics) like +9% research or +20% growth... (improved growth on a single planet don't

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="jalf_123" reply="3" id="1916688"]...[/quote] hum well yeah it seems pointers need to be 32bit for it to work according to AMD document. I'm not a programming guru but it seems 32bit pointers are already required for 2GB ranges which would make it a non-issue ? (that's a question) On the legal side, I think it's forbidden to alter an executable which don't belong to yourself at least in france, and you just have to rename the modified exe to not freak out impulse/SD

Reply to How do I download patches for a computer not connected to the internet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="scouto2" reply="2" id="1916413"]Which application do I archive? The game's application that opens it or the patch itself, and if so, where do I get that?[/quote] you need to archive the patched application (galactic civilization 2 : Dread Lords + Dark Avatar if you have it + Twilight of the Arnor if you have it ) both the patches and the ability to archive said application are features of either one of those stardock softwares : <a href="https://www.stardock.com/pr

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="1" id="1916316"]In x64 Windows, that should be all you need to do. In x32 Windows, you also need to use the /3GB switch in Boot.ini. And you might also need to use the /Userva switch to fine tune the memory usage, especially if your video card has a lot of ram.[/quote] I'm not sure what you implied but a 32bit application(like galciv2) without LAA bits is limited to 2GB of addressable memory (all included) whatever the microsoft OS is

making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I just had a few days ago, an out of memory error from galciv2 while quicksaving the game (4GB of ram + XP64) (sidenote: launching process explorer AFTER the crash showed me a peak memory usage of about 3GB with 1GB currently used by windows and other programs, so I think galciv2 just crossed the 2GB treshold) while searching for other things for other games I stumbled on this information : <a href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/Expand_Memory_

Reply to downloading to a new pc in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

after the game is installed, you can archive it and transfer it over

Reply to How do I download patches for a computer not connected to the internet? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Through StarDock Central, or Impulse you need to : 1 - fully patch the internet connected computer galciv2 2 - archive the application 3 - transfer archive + to your non connected computer 4 - install SDC or impulse to your non connected computer and voilà ... :)