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Reply to I want my money back in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I know it can be a royal pain, but if you manage to alt-tab out of the game (or if you're getting kicked back to windows without the program actually closing) and just let it sit for a while and then close the error message, sometimes you'll get a different message saying something about increasing memory. Close that one out, your memory usage will drop back down to around 400 MB instead of somewhere in the neighborhood of 2GB, and you can go back in to the game and save/play as normal for quite

Reply to Game stops in Vista in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I don't bloody believe this. IT WORKS!!!! It not only solved my Gal Civ problem but also the lockup on starting Google sketchup, I've only been after HP for 3 months to fix these problems, lots of emails and chat's online and you show me the fix in an hour. Why the H.ll can't they do this?THANKYOU[/quote] If your experience trying to get HP to fix anything was at all like mine, it's because they either can't bloody understand what the problem with their products could possibly be

Reply to Vista SP1 Gal Civ 2 won't start in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Page File: 1311MB used, 5044MB availableAnd that is suggesting that there is a lot running when loading GalCiv.[/quote] Not necessarily. Vista alone can eat up almost 1GB...

Reply to GalCiv2/Dark Avatar on Vista in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, i'm running a vista laptop that has older nvidia drivers (2/28/07) and unfortunately every driver that i've tried to get from the laptopvideo2go site has resulted in a bsod, but I have found a few things to make the game run stable for a little while at least. Maybe they can help others in the same situation until laptop manufacturers decide to release drivers more often than once every year or so... Background star/nebula density: I turned them all the way down to 0. Not a pretty