CharlesLentz

CharlesLentz

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Reply to IGN: Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor is 2008 Expansion of the Year!!! in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

[quote]I agree though, they need an icon in the upper right corner. Show off what you earned. Hell list it in the impulse store too.[/quote] I was just thinking this yesterday when all the threads to GOTY polls started popping up. We could have an "Awards" section on each product page that only shows up if there are awards to display. GC2 and it's expansions would have quite a list. :) Now Sins too! It might also be nice to show the game's Metacritic rating

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Reply to IGN: SINS is 2008 Game of the Year!!! And Best Strategy Game, Best New IP, and Most Innovative!!! in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

[quote]Best New IP is hardly something you can give to Sins - we don't have any actual backstory. Giving an award for what might be there is asinine.[/quote] I'm not sure how you can say that. A backstory has nothing to do with whether or not something is a new Intellectual Property. It's an award for best new game that is not a sequel.

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New Xbox Experience in Console Games PolMach Forums

So I was a few days late to the parade, but I did end up getting the Xbox 360 update (New Xbox Experience, or NXE). I got it like 3 days after it's launch of November 19th. It downloaded pretty fast, installed quickly, and the changes that it brings are pretty cool. One of the more popular c

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Reply to Nominate Frogboy as Your Game Industry Hero! in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

There were quite a few Stardockians that worked on Sins actually. Several artists provided and/or tweaked assets. Brad and Yarlen (and others) significantly shaped the game that shipped. Check the credits in the manual to see a list of all the Stardock employees that contributed enough to have their name put there. That many people do not get credited just because Stardock was the publisher.

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Reply to latency in the performance of the intro. to the game? in TPM Support PolMach Forums

If we could see the contents of your debug.err file then we might be able to track down the issue. The file is located at "documents/my games/polMachine2008/debug.err" and can be opened with notepad. Copy the entire contents of that file and Paste into your reply and we'll take a look at it.

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Reply to GalCiv II v2.01 arrives in GalCiv Journals PolMach Forums

[quote who="Alex Bebout" reply="13" id="1953361"]How do I go about getting Version 2.0 of Galciv 2?[/quote] Register your game in Impulse, go to the "My Games" tab, and hit the "Update" button. If don't have Impulse for some reason, you can get it here http://impulsedriven.com/about.aspx Also, it will be the GC2 expansion packs (Dark Avatar, Twilight of the Arnor) that are being updated to v2.0. The base game (gc2: Dreadlords) has a latest version

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Reply to unable to get past logon window in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]I was looking on Ebay for some inexpensive video cards... any suggestions on what brand/type I should look at?[/quote] In response, I'll quote from our "Catch-All, Support Thread" https://forums.politicalmachine.com/315413 [quote]The game needs a card that natively supports Pixel Shader 2.0, namely: NVidia GeForce FX series and higher ATI Radeon 9500 and higher Intel cards: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-014

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Reply to TPM2004 changing resolution in The Political Machine 2004 PolMach Forums

I don't think you can change the screen rez in that game. If you don't want it to take up the whole screen when it starts you can check the box that says "Start Game in Window" in the Options menu, which you can get to by pressing the "Options" button from the Main Menu. Hopefully, that helps you out somewhat.

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Reply to unable to get past logon window in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]I get only a white screen[/quote] A white screen indicates that the video card you have is not capable of rendering the game properly. [quote]RADEON 9250[/quote] A minimum requirement of the game is a "DirectX 9.0c compatible video card". In your case, you have an ATI Radeon branded card. The lowest ATI Radeon card that supports DirectX 9.0c is the ATI Radeon 9500.

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Reply to Game works for a while but then gibberish starts flashing all over the place in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]Debug Message: Version 1.00 last updated on: Fri May 30 14:12:06 2008 Debug Message: sig.bin file located at: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\The Political Machine 2008\sig.bin Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 11/18/2008, 00:04:49 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: DANTE Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp

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Reply to Game works for a while but then gibberish starts flashing all over the place in Political Machine PolMach Forums

[quote]Here is a copy of the ERR file: BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A15[/quote] Tony, It looks like a few lines at the very beginning of the debug.err file did not get pasted into your post. There are normally about 10 lines before the BIOS information. These would be things like, what version of the game you are running, what operating system you have, etc... These things are useful in finding out how to help you. Regardless, f

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Reply to Raising Money in TPM Strategies PolMach Forums

A quick tip that you may not already know is that you can switch the View of the map to be "State Wealth". The default is "Awareness". You'll see it up at the top, near the turn counter in the upper right corner. Click the down arrow of the combo box to switch to different views. In State Wealth View, the darker yellow, the better. Fund raise in those states to really bring home the cash. Another tip for earning money is to build "Campaign HQs". You

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